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Autodesk Maya 2019 is Here : Featuring new tools and performance enhancements for faster animation, improved working environments, higher quality previews and improved pipeline integration

Autodesk Maya 2019

Autodesk has launched Maya 2019, the latest version of its popular 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering software, featuring significant updates to help artists achieve their creative vision within a faster, more interactive and visually engaging working environment.

Maya 2019 addresses the key challenges artists face throughout production, providing faster animation playback to reduce the need for playblasts, 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 Maya 2019 features include:

Key new Maya 2019 features include:

• Maya 2019 is a faster Maya.

   

  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.

Maya 2019 is available now as a standalone subscription or with a collection of end-to-end creative tools within the Autodesk Media & Entertainment Collection. For more information, visit www.autodesk.com/products/maya.

Maya 2019 Cached Playback Indicator Status Bar progress in timeline.

 

 

Maya 2019 Cached Playback menus.

 

 

Maya 2019 Cached Playback performance vs. previous versions.

 

 

Maya 2019 Cached Playback – Re-Caching only changed frames.

 

 

Maya 2019 Cached Playback – reviewing content in 3D environment.

 

 

Maya 2019 Performance Capture Filters.

 

 

 

Maya 2019 Sample characters.