Autodesk Toxik

Autodesk^® Toxik^TM is a digital compositing application that provides interoperability with Maya. It allows you to import render passes as a pre-comp file from Maya and generate and pre-visualize compositions. In addition, it also provides features such as stereoscopic content creation tools for the production of stereo films, the ability to import geometry using the FBX file format, and organizational and collaborative tools that allow your team members to work simultaneously on a project.

For more information on Toxik, see http://www.autodesk.com/toxik.

• Render > Export Pre-Compositing

Autodesk Backburner

You can now use Autodesk^® Backburner^TM with Maya to manage your render jobs and render nodes while network rendering. Autodesk Backburner is a background rendering network system that allows animation scenes to be rendered by many computers working collectively on the same network.

For more information on Backburner, see Backburner User Guide.

• Render > Create Backburner Job
• Network rendering with Backburner

Autodesk MatchMover

Autodesk^® MatchMover^TM is a camera tracking application that automatically captures 3D camera path and camera parameters from 2D video and film image sequences. After capturing a 3D camera path with Autodesk MatchMover, you can export the camera data to a Maya ASCII(.ma) file. This allows you to work with the camera data in Maya to accurately place 3D objects into a video or film sequence.

For more information, see the MatchMover User Guide.