• Comprehensive 3D toolsets—Choose either Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3ds Max, and access a production-proven package for 3D modeling, animation, effects, rendering, and composting.

• New creative possibilities—Use the intuitive Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) within Autodesk Softimage to add compelling effects to your Maya or 3ds Max scene, and quickly create high-quality facial animation with the Autodesk® Face Robot® toolset.

• Intuitive digital sculpting and painting—Easily create highly detailed organic models, using the intuitive sculpting, texturing, and painting toolsets of Autodesk Mudbox.

• Powerful real-time animation—Increase overall animation output and take on previsualization and virtual movie-making projects, with the real-time engine and advanced 3D character animation capabilities of Autodesk MotionBuilder.

• High-quality baking—Easily create global illumination for next-generation games and then bake into texture maps, vertex maps, or point clouds with the Turtle for Autodesk Maya 2012 plug-in.

• Single-step interoperability—Maximize creative potential and optimize productivity with new single-step interoperability workflows and more consistent user interfaces in these 2012 releases.

System Requirements

The system requirements below are for users running many of the following products on the same system. Note that the systems requirements for individual products may differ from those below. You can find details on those requirements by visiting the appropriate product center on http://www.autodesk.com.

• Autodesk® 3ds Max®
• Autodesk® Maya®
• Autodesk® Softimage®
• Autodesk® MotionBuilder®
• Autodesk® Mudbox™

Supported Operating Systems

32 Bit

• Windows® XP Professional (SP3)

64 Bit

• Windows® 7 Professional
• Windows® Vista Business (SP2)
• Windows® XP X64 Edition (SP2)

Supported CPU Type

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
• AMD Athlon™ processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)

Recommended Memory

• 2 GB (32 bit) / 4 GB (64 bit)

Recommended Graphics Hardware

• Direct X® 9.0c application programming interface or higher
• Qualified 512 MB hardware-accelerated OpenGL® 2.0 (and higher) professional graphics cards.

Recommended Display Resolution

• 1280 x 1024

Recommended Hard Disk

• 17 GB free hard frive space to install all applications on the same system.

Pointing Device

• Three-button mouse or certified Wacom® Tablet.

Browser

Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 internet browser or higher, or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser, or Apple® Safari® web browser.

Media

• USB 2.0
• DVD-ROM Drive

Network

• Ethernet adapter or wireless internet card

Autodesk is not responsible for errors or failures of Autodesk software arising from the installation of updates, extensions or new releases issued by third party hardware or software vendors for the qualified software or hardware identified in this document (or for any other third party software or hardware that you may use in connection with Autodesk products).