Alias|Wavefront is the world's leading innovator of 3D graphics technology. In 2003, the company was awarded an Oscar for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its development of Maya software, its professional 3D animation and effects package.

Maya is the current king-of-the-hill in high-end 3D animation software:
over the past six years it has become the established leader in character animation for the film, broadcast, video, game development, 3D web and location-based entertainment markets.

Used in nearly every movie requiring 3Dcomputer-generated images, the Maya software was employed in the making of Spider-Man®, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones®, Spider-Man, Ice Age, Hollow Man, The Lord of the Rings(tm): The Two Towers(tm) etc.

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