Alias Announces Maya 6.5

Alias Announces Maya 65
Alias revealed today the latest version of its award-winning Maya software package, focused on meeting the demands of the most challenging next-generation productions. Maya 6.5 is a performance-driven release optimized to meet the needs of games, film, broadcast and digital publishing professionals seeking dramatic performance enhancements while working with massive datasets.

By re-architecting the software to boost performance across the package, Alias has prepared Maya to provide the power and reliability to work with the heaviest models, scenes and animation data.

Maya 6.5 will begin shipping worldwide in February 2005.

"This latest version of Maya proves the dedication of Alias to meet the needs of the game development community," comments Stephen White, programming director, Naughty Dog, Inc. "Maya continues to evolve as a critical tool in our game development process and this version addresses many important current needs as well as features critical to the future of game development." Naughty Dog is widely regarded as one of the most forward-thinking games developers, having produced the highly acclaimed and successful Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter titles with Alias products.