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From dragons to sweeping landscapes and explosive battle sequences, Maya is a top choice for creating believable characters and the worlds around them.
Generate realistic clumping effects in hair and fur for more natural-looking hair.
Simulate high-level details just where you need them with the new adaptive solver for Bifrost liquids.
Create realistic ocean surfaces with waves, ripples, and wakes.
Faster animation playback in Viewport 2.0 lets you review animations and produce fewer Playblasts.
Mark, navigate, and organize specific events in time and easily zoom into playback ranges in the Time Slider.
Make high-level animation edits with a nondestructive, clip-based, nonlinear editor.
Produce high-quality, production-ready-bound characters in less time.
Fine-tune your characters and animation more quickly and easily.
Get quicker playback and manipulate faster with the integrated performance profiler.
The Butterworth and Key Reducer filters help you refine animation curves, particularly when using motion capture data.
New matrix-driven transform and operation nodes help reduce node and connection clutter in your scenes.
Use new Proximity and UV Pin nodes to precisely track positions on deforming geometry.
The new GPU-accelerated Proximity Wrap deformer brings better memory use and a performance boost to artist workflows.
Use Arnold RenderView to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and camera.
Viewport 2.0 preview is now closer to the final Arnold render, spurring creativity and saving time.
Use Arnold integrated in Maya for production rendering on both CPU and GPU.
Efficient library enables faster, more consistent Boolean operations on polygon geometry.
Specify exactly where you need extra detail on a model by redefining the topology of any area on the mesh.
Generate clean topology preserving the original mesh shape while reconstructing surface topology into evenly distributed quads.
The enhanced UV Editor interface includes a new UV Toolkit with better tools and functionality.
Efficient library enables faster, more consistent Boolean operations on polygon geometry.
The MASH toolset gives you new nodes (curve, signal, world, placer, and more), as well as updates to existing nodes.
Create branding, flying logos, title sequences, and other projects that require text.
Quickly create complex procedural effects and animations with instanced objects.
Create, customize, and integrate Maya into complex production pipelines more easily.
Create Maya scripts and write plug-ins in Maya Embedded Language (MEL) or Python scripting language.
Create large, complex worlds more easily, and manage production assets as discrete elements.