Autodesk Maya

See changes made to your animation without needing to create a playblast

Add deformation effects to your characters and objects to tweak their appearance and enhance their animation

Easily track and adjust complex character timing with Maya's redesigned Dope Sheet

See a graphical representation of interpolation between animation keys that you can modify

Animate objects or skeletons by setting markers (keys) to indicate timing and position

Approximate complex character deformation to speed up animating, blocking, or crowd scenes

Create animation in Maya using motion capture (or 'mocap') systems

Visualize how a character moves 100 times faster with Motion Trails

Generate character motion from just a few keyframes or a motion path, significantly speeding up animation workflows

Assemble animation in sequences that you can rearrange and edit, like film clips in a nonlinear editor

Create and edit animation sequences with any keyframeable object or attribute in Maya

Dive into more advanced graphing using the integrated Arnold shading graphs

Trust color accuracy with color management data precisely embedded in USD files, controlled by Maya's Color Management Preferences

Build materials that work across multiple renderers with LookdevX, Autodesk's agnostic material authoring plug-in for Maya, supported by OpenUSD

View, author, and edit materials on Maya geometry in a single node-based visual programming environment

Automatic MaterialX Stack and Document data structures ensure you can use MaterialX comfortably in your daily tasks

Use native USD and MaterialX shading graphs simultaneously within the same Maya session

Create and apply a wide range of materials with Arnold shaders in Maya like the standard_surface, distance, or toon shader

Leverage Arnold within USD-based workflows in production scenarios for efficient flow of 3D data

Simulate the effect of exposure, focus distance, aperture size, and more with cameras including the cylindrical and fisheye camera

Quickly reduce noise while preserving details in rendered images with denoising options like the OptiX Denoiser

Use Arnold for production rendering on both the GPU and CPU

Use Arnold Render View to view scene changes in real time, including lighting, materials, and cameras

Pick from multiple light settings to simulate illumination in a scene with efficient techniques like global light sampling

See accurate previews of final colors in the viewport and Render View with OpenColorIO v2

Handle simulations, scattering, and instancing, plus work with OpenUSD scenes for better collaboration

Deliver natural looking effects like snow, particles, or waves with Aero, MPM, Particles, and BOSS systems

Work at the lowest level of mesh creation, organize with component tags, and create geometry inside the Bifrost Graph

Assemble, organize, and edit USD assets non-destructively with the flexibility of the Bifrost Graph

Access a variety of pre-built compounds and graphs to use as a starting point for creating your own effects

Create large-scale complexity for world building or set dressing with expressive scattering and instancing tools

Customize the interface, hotkeys, search, and more to tailor Maya to your preferences and workflow

See quick previews of USD scene structure using the Hierarchy View window

The Maya USD plug-in is available as an open-source project for studios to customize as needed

Work with USD data directly in common Maya editors, such as the Outliner, Attribute Editor, and Channel Box

See USD natively alongside Maya data in the viewport

Load and edit massive data sets in a matter of seconds using OpenUSD in Maya

Create large, complex worlds without slowing down your workflow

Import USD data as native Maya data and export native Maya data as USD data