Breathe life into your 3D models with Maya’s powerful animation tools
Whether you’re out to animate lifelike digi doubles or loveable cartoon characters, Maya has the animation toolset to bring your 3D assets to life.
Why Maya
Creatively engaging
Faster animation
Animation tools
Creatively engaging
Experience an intuitive and robust toolset that makes animating feel more like creative expression than pressing buttons. From animating attributes of any object to transforming joints and bones, IK handles, and models over time, Maya gives you the creative freedom to bring your characters and scenes from first concept to reality.
Image courtesy Elizabeth Figueroa
Why Maya
Creatively engaging
Faster animation
Animation tools
Faster animation
Powerful tools in Maya speed up the process of creating and editing animation. The Time Editor provides an intuitive, clip-based workflow for non-linear animation editing, so you can navigate easily between clips and adjust timing operations like speed, length, and start/stop times. Cached Playback enables you to evaluate iterations of your animation right in the viewport, rather than producing multiple playblasts.
Why Maya
Creatively engaging
Faster animation
Animation tools
Best-in-class animation tools
From tools for producing high-quality, production-ready bound characters to an intuitive graph editor for manipulating animation curves and keys in your scene, and shape authoring tools for adding fine details such as facial expressions to characters, you’ll be working with the industry’s best software for animation.
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See Maya in action
See Maya in action
From setup and rigging to animating details like toes and ears, follow along as animator Konstantinos Zacharakis brings this lion character to life using Maya.
From setup and rigging to animating details like toes and ears, follow along as animator Konstantinos Zacharakis brings this lion character to life using Maya.
See Maya in action
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See Maya in action
From setup and rigging to animating details like toes and ears, follow along as animator Konstantinos Zacharakis brings this lion character to life using Maya.
USD is now seamlessly integrated with Maya. You can load and edit large data sets fast while working directly with data using native tools. This update also brings you significant enhancements to animation, rigging, modeling toolsets, and much more.