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New 'Bring Your Own Data' feature lets studios train models for Maya's MotionMaker system using their own keyframe or mocap data.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.

Friday, July 10th, 2026

Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and animation app, like OpenTimelineIO support and updates to LookdevX and Bifrost.

Thursday, May 21st, 2026

Read our rundown of the changes to the 3D modeling and animation app, from new AI features to Skin Tools and surface tension in Bifrost.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2026

Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, from new character rigging features to destruction simulation in Bifrost.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025

Check out the changes to the 3D animation app, including updates to LookdevX and new generative animation system MotionMaker.

Wednesday, August 6th, 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and animation software, including AI animation and modular character rigging in Bifrost.

Thursday, June 5th, 2025

3D modeling and animation tool gets updates to the ML Deformer and liquid simulation in Bifrost. Check out all the new features here.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

Source code for the USD add-on for the 3D modeling and animation software is now available under an Apache 2.0 license.

Saturday, December 7th, 2024

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Latest update to the 3D software adds machine-learning-based tool to create fast approximations of complex character rigs.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2024

Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, from updates to LookdevX to a sneak peek at character rigging in Bifrost.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

Check out the latest features in the 3D modeling and animation app, from the new Smart Extrude system to LookdevX, Arnold and Bifrost.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2024