
The latest updates to 3ds Max optimize creative workflows with powerful new texture baking, modeling, and rendering capabilities as well as upgraded security features designed to protect scene integrity. It was a complicated project to tackle, since it involved unifying the work of two separate codebases, and overseeing the contributions from many other sources, but they've risen to the challenge and have been great leaders and partners - willing to take the extra time and effort in order to communicate and cooperate, and keep everyone working on the same project toward the same goal, which has really laid the groundwork for both a great product, and a great community.”

Paul Molodowitch, Lead Pipeline Technical Director, Luma Pictures, added, “At Luma Pictures, we're big believers in the power and usefulness of open-source projects, so we jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with Autodesk on USD for Maya. Across tools, our goal is to simplify the complexities of working with massive datasets, aid in collaboration between artists and studios, and help teams push their creative limits by managing technical pipeline challenges.” “The M&E team has put a great deal of effort into our USD integration as the standard is proving crucial for innovation in visual effects and animation, today and into the future. “Increasing support for open-source standards is a huge area of focus for Autodesk across industry verticals,” said Jocelyn Moffatt, Industry Marketing Manager, Entertainment.
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Modern Rigging Workflows: This update introduces several procedural, topology-independent rigging workflows.Improvements to the Time Editor, including support for cached playback and additive animation clips, and new filters in the Graph Editor bring artists a smoother animation experience overall. A new Ghosting Editor allows artists to quickly see animation spacing over time, making it easier to pinpoint necessary edits and how poses work together in animations.

Powerful Animation Tools: Animation tool updates help artists animate faster and in fewer clicks.Robust referencing functionality, nondestructive data editing workflows, and support for complex variants on top of USD increase pipeline efficiency and collaboration and help teams scale for high-volume data workflows. Seamless USD Integration: Full USD integration allows artists to load multiple gigabytes of data within seconds and work directly with the data using Maya’s native tools.
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Maya’s animation, modeling, and rendering toolsets also see significant updates, bringing even more power, flexibility, and creative freedom to the daily work of professional artists.

First announced at SIGGRAPH 2018 as a joint effort with Pixar, Animal Logic, Luma Pictures, and Blue Sky Studios, USD is now integrated in Maya, enabling artists to load and edit massive datasets at lightning speed.

Among these updates is the much-anticipated USD plugin for Maya. Autodesk has just unveiled major updates to Maya, 3ds Max, and MotionBuilder today, introducing powerful new creative pipeline tools that accelerate and streamline artist workflows.
