Cached Playback improvements

The latest updates to Maya continue to improve the speed and performance of simulation and dynamics caching, enabling you to stay in flow and iterate your work in real-time at final frame quality.

Time Editor improvements

The Time Editor now fully supports Cached Playback allowing you to work and hit play without needing to playblast. You can also now set clips to be additive, enabling you to mix two clips together seamlessly. For example, a clip of an arm waving can be blended with a clip of someone walking, even as the animation moves forward in space.

New Auto-Tangents

Take a closer look at new options for Auto Tangents in Maya with Senior User Experience Designer, Meghana Gupte.

Time Slider Bookmark Improvements

Use Time Slider Bookmarks to flag events on the Time Slider, drawing attention to moments in time for animation or layout. This update brings event more control to Bookmarks with several new hot keys.

Graph Editor Filters

Several improvements to the Graph Editor bring you a smoother animation experience. The new Peak Removal filter helps you clean up unwanted spikes and peaks in animation curves and the new Smooth (Gaussian) filter gives you more control over the range and width of blur effects. New options for Auto Tangents offer an improved algorithm with more predictable results.

New Sweep Mesh from Curve Tool

Sweep Mesh is a new, one-click tool for generating polygon geometry from NURBS and Bezier curves. Using Sweep Mesh, you can procedurally control profile shape, size, tapering, twisting, alignment, subdivisions, and UV creation.