Maya 2013 has been launched by Autodesk. we here sharing the download link of Autodesk Maya 2013 free Trial version. “Autodesk Maya 2013 software brings useful toolsets to help generate and maintain the modern, open pipelines you need to address today’s challenging 3D animation, visual effects, game development, and post production projects. Powerful new toolsets for dynamic simulation, animation, and rendering offer new levels of creativity, while everyday productivity enhancements help you finish faster. In addition, the Open Data initiative introduced in Maya 2013 offers tools to help facilitate parallel workflows and better complexity handling.”

System Requirements

For 32-Bit Autodesk Maya 2013

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional (SP1) or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3) operating system
• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
• 2 GB RAM
• 10 GB free hard drive space
• Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
• 3-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8 or higher, Apple® Safari®, or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser

For 64-Bit Autodesk Maya 2013

• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (SP1), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2), Apple® Mac OS® X 10.7.x, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.0 WS, or Fedora™ 14 operating system
• Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
• Macintosh® computer: Macintosh computer with Intel-based 64-bit processor
• 4 GB RAM
• 10 GB free hard drive space
• Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• 3-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• Internet Explorer 8 or higher, Safari, or Firefox web browser

Autodesk has launched Maya 2013 in last month. Autodesk developers are working hardly on their products such as Maya, 3d Studio Max and so on. Autodesk Maya 2013 software brings useful toolsets to help generate and maintain the modern, open pipelines you need to address today’s challenging 3D animation, visual effects, game development, and post production projects. Powerful new toolsets for dynamic simulation, animation, and rendering offer new levels of creativity, while everyday productivity enhancements help you finish faster. In addition, the Open Data initiative introduced in Maya 2013 offers tools to help facilitate parallel workflows and better complexity handling.

Maya 2013 announces the start of something called Open Data. Open Data means working with and handling complex data with natural, high performance workflows. It’s essential to note that this is work that Autodesk see benefiting all Maya users – not just large studios. It can be some precisely stimulating material and Autodesk has tried to approach it in a way that small studios can get access to tools that, in the past, only big studios had access to by developing for themselves.

In the rendering realm, Autodesk sees a lot of enhancements to Viewport 2.0 and mental ray for Maya has been turned into a true plug-in. This update to mental ray makes it easier for the rendering developers at Autodesk and NVidia to talk to each other and improve mental ray in Maya. For other renderers, this improves the hooks that they have into Maya. Also Autodesk has done a bunch of other things, most notably with Nucleus nHair and Animation – on to the details!

In 2010 Clash of Culture of Released and this was a big movie due to its visual effects and it has got a lot of from the industry. Now, in 2012 the sequel of this movie has been released with the name of Wrath of the Titans. This movie has a lot of amazing characters, visual effects and animations which are wrath watching. “ Framestore’s work skillfully illuminates the appeal of the Titans movies: imaginary creatures set in equally fantastical environments. The studio completed 300 shots for the film, in two key sequences: the first, an encounter between Perseus’s group and a trio of Cyclops, and the second, the group’s assault on The Labyrinth – the towering maze which provides access to Tartarus, where Zeus is imprisoned.”

Plot

A decade after his heroic downfall of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus-the demigod son of Zeus-is trying to live a discreet life as a village fisherman and the individual parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. In the meantime, a fight for sovereignty angers amongst the gods and the Titans. Hazardously weakened by humanity’s absence of piety, the gods are losing control of the trapped Titans and their violent leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The trio had conquered their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the depressed depth of Tartarus, a prison that lies deep within the echoing underworld. Perseus cannot discount his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus’ godly son, Ares (Edgar Ramírez), change faithfulness and make a agreement with Kronos to imprisonment Zeus. The Titans’ strength raises stronger as Zeus’ remaining godly controls are draw off, and hell is unleashed on earth. Enlisting the help of the combatant Queen Andromeda (Rosamund Pike), Poseidon’s demigod son, Argenor (Toby Kebbell), and fallen god Hephaestus (Bill Nighy), Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind

Cast

• Sam Worthington…Perseus
  Liam Neeson… Zeus
  Ralph Fiennes… Hades
  Édgar Ramírez… Ares
  Toby Kebbell… Agenor
  Rosamund Pike… Andromeda
  Bill Nighy… Hephaestus
  Danny Huston… Poseidon
  John Bell… Helius
  Lily James… Korrina
  Alejandro Naranjo… Mantius
  Freddy Drabble… Apollo
  Kathryn Carpenter… Athena
  Matt Milne… Elite Guard No. 1
  Kett Turton… Elite Guard No. 2

Dear visitors welcome to the part 2 of “Modeling a Temple in Maya”.  We are going to build a temple or a historical building in this tutorials sequel. So, you are going to learn architectural modeling in Maya. We have introduced some common and new techniques for modeling any building in Autodesk Maya. We have started last tutorial by creating temple’s doom and finished the tutorials by creating some upper story details. This temple is double story building. We have created pillars and roofs. In the second part we will create more details for ground floor and stairs and doors etc.

We are going to build ground floor so will start this part by creating poly box in the middle of our scene. We will adjust the cube by scaling under upper story. According to reference image we have to create shade of main door of temple. Create a poly cube again and adjust it by scaling and rotating at its place. You can use attribute editor for exact measurements. When you satisfied duplicate the shade cube and mirror it and merge top vertices using Merge option. After that we will create ground for temple by creating poly cube and scaling it. We will add some pillars in door of temple by creating poly cylinder. We will add details to our pillars. When we will satisfy we will duplicate them and arrange them in door area.
Let’s watch video for further options and details.

Dear user we are going to include a new video tutorial on Architectural Modeling. Every Autodesk Maya user is very fond of architectural modeling. Every step in modeling process has new aspects of joy. This tutorial is a project of constructing an imaginary enormous temple. We use Poly Meshes and primitives for construction of our temple. We will create simple shapes first and then we will give more details to our project. We will model a doom first and then we will go in details. For starting our project we will use Poly Sphere. Now we will cut the sphere from the center so it looks like a doom. For doing this job select the sphere and go to Edges mode. Then go to Front View panel our as you use to with. Select half of sphere’s edges and press dell button on keyboard. Now, you have a shape of doom. Go back to selection mode so that we will precede next steps. We will add more details to our doom. Go to shelve and click on Pipe poly mesh and drag a pipe around the doom. We will use same technique for cutting the pipe into half which we have used on sphere.

When you we will satisfied with detail of pipe we duplicate it and will try to fit duplicate copy of pipe by rotating on x axis. After we will select all objects and scale it in Y-axis. Now, we will add a base to doom by creating a Torus and fitting it around bottom area of doom using scale and rotate tool.

We have completed modeling of our robot character in previous tutorials (Modeling a Robot and Rendering Using V-Ray Part 1 and Part 2). In this video tutorial we are going to prepare our robot character for rendering using V-Ray. You have to load V-Ray rendering engine into you Maya software for this part. If you are familiar V-ray you know that V-Ray has its own Materials for texturing objects. When you will install v-ray into your system it installs its Material into Maya and you can find v-ray materials in Hypershade. V-Ray is very powerful rendering engine for getting realistic output of you 3d graphics. Lights and shadow play very important role in rendering process. V-Ray rendering engine has built-in Global Illumination Settings for overcome at this issue.  So, we are going to apply v-ray material to our robot character and then we will start rendering job.

Our robot character is completed. Now, we will apply special v-ray material to our model. For our convenience and for ease of work we will use Hypershade for applying materials to our character.

This video tutorial is part 2 of Modeling a Robot and Rendering Using V-Ray. We have completed rough shape of the legs of our robotic model. We have used poly primitives for creating our robot’s body part in previous tutorial. We continue using poly primitives in this video also. Now, we will create feet for robot’s legs. We will use poly cylinder for making rough shape of foot. For this tutorial we have docked the poly primitives in Shelf. So, just click on poly cylinder in Shelf. We will Scale and Extrude the cylinder for making shape of foot. Here we will use a trick for selecting faces of cylinder. We have to select upper faces of cylinder. So, just go to vertices mode and click center vertices from the tope center and Right Click and select To Faces and again To Faces. You will see all top Faces will be selected.

Now, we have all top faces are selected. We will use extrude tool for making some details in cylinder. When you satisfied just finish extruding. When we extrude some objects in Maya this causes rough edges. So, for getting smooth edges we will use Bevel tool with offset of 0.2 in attribute editor. Now, according to our reference image we have to create foot fingers. We will use poly cube and we will continue making details of foot area. When finish we will arrange and group all leg’s parts. At the end of this tutorial we will complete robot model with four legs and some extra detail and into next part we will texture and render our model using V-Ray.

Maya users are very affectionate of modeling robotic models. We have included a lot of robotic modeling tutorials in our website. But this tutorial has a best thing that after modeling our teacher will teach you how to use best material for texturing a robot that it looks like real robot. And then he will move to rendering process and he will teach you how to use v-ray rendering process for realistic rendering.  This is first part of this robot modeling tutorials. This tutorial is split in three parts. This part will start with a poly sphere. We will start modeling our robot from scratch. Best thing is that we are using Maya 2012 for this robot modeling and we will introduce you new feature of Maya for modeling and rendering process.

Tutorials starts with a poly sphere which will be base of our model. After that we will convert it into low poly and we will start creating details of our robot model. We will use a final render image of this robot for reference. You will see again and again during modeling and will create more details. We will use extrude tools for creating a crease in our robot. This crease will separate the head of robot. After that will create robot’s mouth using standard pipe in poly menu. We will model robot’s legs using standard poly cube. We will make rough shape of robot’s leg by scaling the cube in different angles.

The movie John Carter is being launched at 9 March 2012 under the flag of Disney. According to officials   this movie has highest budget ever ie $ 250,000,000. Avatar has was highest budget $237,000,000 before John Carter. This movie has very high and cost effective visual effects and 3d characters. Movie is based on Mars environment, which is created in 3d computer world. Andrew Stanton is writer and director of Jhon Carter movie. Short description of movie is that……….. Civil War vet John Carter has been ported to the planet Mars.  Where, main residents are green barbarian 12 feet tall creatures. He find himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.

Mainly, film is based on the first novel to Princess of Mars, John Carter. Originally under the title of the bottom of the moons of Mars, it was serialized in February, from 1912, the chapter they are as a hardcover book in 1917 but in July issue of 6 months of the story all the pulp magazines was collected. In the novel, John Carter is transported to Mars, is a former Army captain WarConfederate American Civil War. In the course of his adventures, he knows that that planet is dying from a loss of air and water, the only peaceful alliance of intelligent residents that are able to save the species from extinction all of Barsoom .

John Carter is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs novel that appears to Barsoom. It is Virginia only  visitor from Earth to the Mars is actually him, he Mars “referring to the setting in the tradition of the heroes of other real-world objects from time to time, the main action of his has been recorded Lawrence of Arabia and Africa such as Scipio, known as John Carter “. His character, since its debut in 1912 with the serial of the magazine, which appeared in various media, has endured.

Cast

• Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
• Lynn Collins as Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium
• Willem Dafoe as Tars Tarkas, a Barsoomian warrior and ally of John Carter
• Thomas Haden Church as Tal Hajus, a vicious Thark warrior
• Samantha Morton as Sola, daughter of Tars Tarkas
• Dominic West as Sab Than, Prince of Zodanga
• Polly Walker as Sarkoja, a merciless, tyrannical Thark
• James Purefoy as Kantos Kan, captain of the ship Xavarian
• Mark Strong as Matai Shang, leader of the Holy Therns
• Ciarán Hinds as Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium
• Bryan Cranston as a Civil War colonel who comes into conflict with Carter
• Daryl Sabara as Edgar Rice Burroughs, nephew of John Carter
• Jon Favreau, who was once attached to direct the film when it was still a Paramount production, has a cameo in the film.

The Lorax movie Trailer – From the creators of Despicable Me plus the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the 3D-CG feature Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, an adaptation of the typical tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of expect. The animated adventure follows the trip of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the love of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the irritable yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

Danny DeVito will lend his verbal talents to the iconic title character of the Lorax, while Ed Helms will say the enigmatic Once-ler. Also bringing their talents to the film are global superstars Zac Efron as Ted, the naive youth who searches for the Lorax, and Taylor Swift as Audrey, the girl of Ted’s dreams. Rob Riggle will play monetary king O’Hare, and beloved actress Betty White will portray Ted’s wise Grammy Norma. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is the third feature created by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, Hop).

Directors:

Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda

Writers:

Ken Daurio (screenplay), Dr. Seuss (book),