Students will be responsible for supplying their own computer equipment, software, broadband internet access, and other materials for all courses taken with New Media Campus.

Multimedia Students are required to supply the following software for the course:

Adobe Photoshop CS4 (or above)

Adobe Illustrator CS4 (or above)

Adobe Flash CS4 (or above)

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (or above)

The 3D animation & Game Design Students are required to supply the following software for the course:

Adobe Photoshop CS4 (or above)

Autodesk Maya 2009 (or above)

Pixologic ZBrush

Crazy Bump

The 3D animation & Game Design also requires the following software but is free to download (download details will be provided in the training videos):

Xnormal

Unreal Developement Kit (UDK)

Students will only be able to purchase the most current version of the software at any given time, this is acceptable for all New Media Campus courses.

Students needing to purchase Adobe software will be given instructions after they have registered and purchased their course. Student pricing is available at the Adobe website only, 3rd party resellers do not apply.

For 3D students needing a copy of Maya, Autodesk offers a free 3 year student version. Details for downloading this student version will be given to students upon their first payment, or you can visit http://students.autodesk.com for more information.

To purchase Pixologic ZBrush choose from one of the resellers at Pixologic's website. Student pricing pricing is available.

To purchase Crazy Bump visit http://www.crazybump.com.
Student pricing is available.

For 32-bit Autodesk Maya 2011

Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system
Microsoft® Windows® Vista® Business (SP2 or higher)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or higher)
Procesor: Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon™ 64, or AMD Opteron™ processor, AMD Phenom™ processor

Apple® Mac OS® X 10.6.2 operating system
Macintosh® computer: Intel-based Macintosh computers

2 GB RAM
4 GB free hard drive space
Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
DVD-ROM drive
Maya Composite functionality media cache requirements for playback:
- 10 GB minimum, 200 GB recommended
- HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or higher, Apple® Safari® or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser

For a more detailed list, or for minimum system requirements for a 64-bit version please visit Autodesk's expanded system requirements list.

Windows

Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
1GB of RAM
1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Mac OS

Multicore Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
1GB of RAM
2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

For more information please visit Adobe's system requirements list.

Windows

Recommended:

OS: Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista/Windows 7
CPU: Pentium D or newer (or equivalent such as AMD Athlon 64 X2 or newer) with optional multithreading or hyperthreading capabilities
RAM: 2048MB (4096MB for working with multi-million-poly meshes)
Monitor: 1280x1024 monitor resolution or higher (32 bits)

Minimum System Requirements:

OS: Windows 2000/XP SP2
CPU: P4 or AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Processor (Must have SSE2 : Streaming SIMD Extensions 2)
RAM: 1024MB (2048 MB recommended)
Monitor: 1024x768 monitor resolution (32 bits)

For information about Macintosh system requirements and more please visit Pixologic's system requirements list.

UDK System Requirements

Windows

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
2.0+ GHz processor
2 GB system RAM
SM3-compatible video card
3 GB free hard drive space