What's new
Faster Animation
New cached playback increases animation playback speeds in viewport 2.0, giving animators a more interactive and responsive animating environment to produce better quality animations. It helps reduce the need to produce time-consuming playblasts to evaluate animation work, so animators can work faster.
Higher Quality Previews Closer to Final Renders
Arnold upgrades improve real-time previews in viewport 2.0, allowing artists to preview higher quality results that are closer to the final Arnold render for better creativity and less wasted time.
Faster Maya
New performance and stability upgrades help improve daily productivity in a range of areas that most artists will notice in their daily work.
Refining Animation Data
New filters within the graph editor make it easier to work with motion capture data, including the Butterworth filter and the key reducer to help refine animation curves.
Rigging Improvements
New updates help make the work of riggers and character TDs easier, including the ability to hide sets from the outliner to streamline scenes, improvements to the bake deformer tool and new methods for saving deformer weights to more easily script rig creation.
Pipeline Integration Improvements
Development environment updates make it easier for pipeline and tool developers to create, customize and integrate into production pipelines.
Help for Animators in Training
Sample rigged and animated characters, as well as motion capture samples, make it easier for students to learn and quickly get started animating.
