Skilled teams of animators have used it to create effects for films such as Pearl Harbor, The Perfect Storm, and Shrek, and it has made many TV shows and video games come to life. Maya combines modeling and rendering tools character and object animation a customizable, scriptable interface and a powerful production workflow, in one impressive application. Apple and Alias|Wavefront have been demonstrating Maya for over a year, touting it as “the premier 3-D application for high-end visual graphics.” The program comes close to living up to this claim, but OS X compatibility and some features have to improve before it will earn a place next to Maya incarnations on other platforms.
Alias|Wavefront’s Maya for Mac OS X 3.5, one of the most anticipated and hyped applications ever to hit the Mac, is finally shipping.
