Comments on: Autodesk announces new features for Max and Maya 2011!

By: arnel

arnel — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:30:31 +0000

have you guys seen this tut http://www.cgwhat.com/maya-lip-sync/ flipping funny as hell the guy show how to use blend shapes and then animates the character to say it’s peanut butter jelly time

By: David Dominowski

David Dominowski — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:34 +0000

Outstanding Maya 2011 new features, We’re all exited about the new 3D Editoral and Skinning Features. Regarding Assets and File Referencing We would like to see a sort of OpenPipeline (http://kickstand.tv/tools/openpipeline/) plugin built in in maya with the new Assets Management features.

By: jawid

jawid — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:29:55 +0000

I’m a Maya user , I don’t see a lots of change in maya , they only barrowed characterization tool from MotionBuilder . if I want to do animation I always prefer Motionbuilder. the only improvement is skinning part , which is very cool ….

By: schmiddl

schmiddl — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:27:16 +0000

i think the skinning improvements in maya will really speed it up. but besides that the only thing autodesk should REALLY REALLY care about, is to clean the program up! Throw useless buttons out, work on the core of the program..right now the workflow is one gigantic workaround..a program this complicated is bound to be bugy..

By: Aatish

Aatish — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:16:04 +0000

well… after watching all Maya videos I reached one verdict it is, that (maybe) autodesk is making Maya an Animation platform because last two version had mostly animation related enhancements. I really like the skinning enhancements and aset managments but not so excited bout camera short designer or whatever.

On the max side well after watching the two first videos and after reading the titles of rest I just felt sad! Maya had all that stuff like in version 3 or maybe 4?I don’t remember …. nothing revolutionary but well new to max users maybe!

But I dont’ want to see Maya as only Animation platform it will break my heart and lots of other million users! hopefully we see changes in every part of mayawork flow!
Cheers!

By: nano

nano — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:42:24 +0000

LOL guys!
for u as a modeler may be right.. u can use only silo, modo or wtevr cheaper pkg..
But,. r u comparing MAYA as vfx tool with these softwares .. ??!!
or u comparing the stability of MAYA as a production pipeline with those packages ?!!
there are a lot of new features coming..

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:20:58 +0000

Again, no improvements in any of Max’s animation systems. Plenty of people still use Biped. It still has loads of bugs. CAT is naff and not worth looking at, due to lack of documentation. I’d change packages, but I’m still paying Autodesk in one way or another.

By: Nenad

Nenad — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:41:49 +0000

Why ICC profiles support in Maya and not in Max?! What kind of a logic is that?!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:26 +0000

How trivial to make CTL select to be “only select and not for deselect”, and how is that “logicial”? Is it supposed to stop me accidentally selecting backfaces instead of deselecting?

Such UI changes should be at least a preference you can set on or off.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:30 +0000

Max

node elements, vextex and object painting, and the little UI updates, this is what i am talking about!!!!

good work, keep it up !