Key features of Maya Creative

Pose and animate models with hierarchical, articulated structures known as skeletons.

Bind a modelled surface to a skeleton with smooth, rigid and indirect skinning.

Easily retarget animation between characters of differing size, proportions and skeletal hierarchy with HumanIK.

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

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

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

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

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

Create animation in Maya Creative using motion capture (or “mocap“) systems.

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

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

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

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

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

Trust colour accuracy with colour management data precisely embedded in USD files, controlled by Maya Creative’s Colour Management Preferences.

Dive into more advanced graphing using the integrated Arnold shading graphs.

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

Use Arnold for production rendering on both the GPU and CPU.

Create and apply a wide range of materials with Arnold shaders in Maya Creative like the standard_surface or distance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See USD natively alongside Maya Creative data in the viewport.

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

Create Maya Creative scripts and write plug-ins using Python 3.

Create large, complex worlds without slowing down your workflow.

Customise the interface, hotkeys, search and more to tailor Maya Creative to your preferences and workflow.

Easily identify and manage which plug-ins are loaded into Maya Creative.

Access production management tools directly in Maya Creative with a Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) subscription.