Maya 2019 arrives from Autodesk

Autodesk has released Maya 2019, the latest version of its popular 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering software, with significant updates to help artists achieve their creative vision faster. More interactive and visually engaging work environment.

Maya 2019 addresses key challenges artists face throughout production, providing faster animation playback to reduce the need for players, higher quality 3D previews with Autodesk Arnold updates in viewport 2.0, improved pipeline integration with more flexible development environment support, and performance improvements that most Maya Artists will notice in their daily work.

Key new features in Maya 2019 include:

– Faster animation: New cached playback increases the speed of animation playback in the Graphics 2.0 window, giving animators a more interactive and responsive animation environment to produce better quality animation. It helps reduce the need to produce time-consuming sets to evaluate animation work, so animators can work faster.

– Higher quality previews Closer to final renders: Arnold updates improve real-time previews in the 2.0 view, allowing artists to get higher quality results that are closer to the final Arnold render for better creativity and less wasted time.

– Faster Maya: New performance and stability enhancements help improve daily productivity in a variety of areas that most artists will notice in their daily work.

– Animation data refinement: New filters within the graph editor make it easier to work with motion capture data, including the Butterworth filter and key reducer to help refine animation curves.

– Rigging enhancements : new updates help make it easier for riggers and characters to work with TD, including the ability to hide eyeliner sets to simplify scenes, improvements to the bake deformation tool, and new features that make it easier for riggers and characters to work with TD, including the ability to hide eyeliner sets to simplify scenes, and improvements to the bake deformation tool.

– Pipeline integration enhancements: Updates to the development environment make it easier for pipeline and tool developers to create, customize and integrate pipelines and tools into production lines.

– Training aid for animators: it shows molded and animated characters, as well as motion capture samples, which make it easy for students to learn and quickly start animating.