Maya 2023 released
Autodesk has announced the release of Maya 2023, features include: Unreal Live Link for Maya allows users to stream animation data from Maya to Unreal in real-time, ideal for virtual production and game development. Blue Pencil 2D Drawing Tools allows users to draw 2D sketches over scenes directly in the viewport in a clean and non-destructive way. Building on Maya’s Grease Pencil tool, this new toolset allows users to sketch poses over time, define motion arcs, mark up shots, and add annotations and comments for review. Experience faster scene playback with new Cached Playback support for the Jiggle deformer and Bullet solver. The Evaluation Toolkit now includes a new Invisibility evaluation mode and a Reduce Graph Rebuild option for animation workflows. This update integrates USD in Bifrost for the first time, allowing Maya to be used almost anywhere there’s a USD implementation in the pipeline – from familiar Maya workflows to procedural Bif...