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Features
3D animation, motion graphics, and VFX software
From dragons to sweeping landscapes and explosive battle sequences, Maya is a top choice for creating believable characters and the worlds around them.
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New
Bifrost for procedural effects
A new visual programming environment using dynamic solvers makes it quick and easy to create blockbuster-worthy effects procedurally. (video: 1:57 min.)
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New
Ready-to-use graphs
From snow to dust storms, create great-looking effects right out-of-the-box with prebuilt graphs.
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Interactive hair grooming
Generate realistic clumping effects in hair and fur for more natural-looking hair.
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Deep adaptive liquid simulation
Simulate high-level details just where you need them with the new adaptive solver for Bifrost liquids.
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Bifrost Ocean Simulation System
Create realistic ocean surfaces with waves, ripples, and wakes.
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New
Cached Playback
Faster animation playback in Viewport 2.0 enables artists to review animation right in the viewport and minimizes the need to produce Playblasts. (video: 2:29 min.)
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Geodesic voxel binding
Produce high-quality, production-ready bound characters in less time.
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Time Editor
Make high-level animation edits with a nondestructive, clip-based, nonlinear editor.
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Shape authoring workflow
Fine-tune your characters and animation more quickly and easily.
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Parallel rig evaluation
Get quicker playback and manipulate faster with the integrated performance profiler.
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Performance capture
The new Butterworth and Key Reducer filters help you refine animation curves, particularly when using motion capture data.
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New
Beautiful working environment
Arnold improvements make the Viewport 2.0 preview closer to the final Arnold render for better creativity and less wasted time. (video: 59 sec.)
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Arnold integrated with Maya
Use Arnold RenderView to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.
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Color management
Efficient library enables faster, more consistent Boolean operations on polygon geometry.
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UV editor workflow, look, and feel
The UV Editor interface has been overhauled, and includes a new UV Toolkit with better tools and functionality.
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Polygon modeling
Efficient library enables faster, more consistent Boolean operations on polygon geometry.
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MASH nodes
The MASH toolset gives you new nodes (curve, signal, world, placer, and more), as well as updates to existing nodes.
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3D Type
Create branding, flying logos, title sequences, and other projects that require text.
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Motion Graphics toolset
Quickly create complex procedural effects and animations with instanced objects.
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Pipeline flexibility
Create, customize, and integrate Maya into complex production pipelines more easily.
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Scripting and API
Create Maya scripts and write plug-ins in Maya Embedded Language (MEL) or Python scripting language.
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Data and scene management tools
Manage large data sets and heavy scenes with specialized tools and workflows.
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Scene Assembly tools for smarter data
Create large, complex worlds more easily, and manage production assets as discrete elements.
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