Autodesk has announced the release of Maya 2020, introducing significant updates for animators, along with improvements to the graph editor and time slider. Key highlights of this release include:
- Cached Playback: Experience faster animation playback and more predictable results with new preview modes. This includes layered dynamics caching and more efficient caching of image planes.
- Animation Bookmarks: Easily mark, organize, and navigate key events within your animation timeline using animation bookmarks.
- Bifrost for Maya: Benefit from performance gains, support for Cached Playback, and new MPM cloth constraints within Bifrost.
- Viewport Improvements: Interact with and select dense geometry or numerous smaller meshes more rapidly in the viewport and UV editors.
- Modeling Enhancements: Explore the new Remesh and Retopologize features to refine your models.
- Rigging Improvements: Enjoy new matrix-driven workflows, nodes for precise position tracking on deforming geometry, and a new GPU-accelerated wrap deformer.
The release also incorporates Arnold 6, enabling production rendering on both CPU and GPU, alongside performance enhancements and new simulation features within Bifrost, Maya’s visual programming environment.
For a comprehensive overview of all the new features and changes, please refer to the Maya documentation’s What’s New page for detailed information.
