Hey, I was thinking... How about Autodesk start to put some effort into Maya ? I know you have many other tools... and certainly many engineers and creative minds in the "house"... So how about allocating all that brain power and start doing something here ? Alias Wavefront / Alias were incredible companies... And they had far fewer employees and resources than Autodesk and yet they did a way much better job than Autodesk. You should feel ashamed of what has been done with this tool ever since you put your hands in it, honestly. And I'm a hardcore Maya user... I loved working on this software since 2004/2005... And I came from Softimage btw. I always try to defend the tool but the desire to completely distance myself and turn entirely to Houdini is making more and more sense.   Thanks Show More

Please improve the procedural modeling system in bifrost: make a TVC so that you can procedurally create, for example, a city, using less than a hundred nodes Show More

Hello, I'm Eva 🙃   First of all I apologize for my English since it's not my first language. Also, I'm from Spain, so I'm talking about the requirements setted for Spain, cause I guess it can vary from one country to another.   Second, I just think the eligibility for Maya Indie should be based exclusively on your anual gross renevue from creative work if you're a freelance.   Now, I explain myself. I've been on the industry just for 3 years or so and a year ago I became a freelance because reasons and I've been paying the standart license since then. Today a friend of mine told me about Maya Indie (I didn't know about it cause hehe) and I was hopeful for a second until I saw the requirements for eligibility. Cause yeah, I make way less than 100k€ (way less like 25k) but the project I'm working on is valued on more than 100k. So, basically, I'm not eligible.    I don't understand how the money my clients makes has anything to do with the eligibility for a license I, as a freelancer have to pay. I'm not going to see any money apart of what my clients pays me per hour. Doesn't make sense to me. Autodesk just make it so hard for freelancers, and I mean, Maya is (usually) not the only thing freelancers have to pay, in my case I still have to pay for other 2 licenses but Maya is still at the top of my expenses just after rent.    I like Maya, not because it works fine cause it works like 💩 most of the time but I'm just used to it, it's comfortable for me, I've been using it for years but you guys bill it like it's going to clean my house, walk my dog and make me dinner. As a struggling artist it's really frustrating. Being a freelance is hard but it's even harder like this. Maya is an industry standart and sometimes we're even forced to use it.   Honestly, I've been learning Blender just to switch and save that money. If I were eligible for the Indie license I would be happy to pay it and continue using Maya. Two months of the standart one are already more than one year for the Indie one.   I'm sorry for the venting but I'm so angry cause I was so hopeful for a second before I was slapped in the face once again by Autodesk 😂 .   That's all 👋 Show More

As you can see blender is gaining to much popularity that making maya user to switch to other software . I want  maya to gets  rendering , better  modeling and many others. I  prefer maya over blender  I want more update for autdesk to improve maya and beat down blender in all aspect of modeling ,vfx,rendering, animation. Show More

As much as I like quaddraw and it's great shortcuts it feels like it's lagging behind on a few features. One of the more useful being an easy way to retopo an arm/leg/fingers etc.. like the strokes tool from 3dcoat https://streamable.com/r8okll it is also amazing for laying out base topology for eyes and edge flow and I find it better than patch tools in that regard too (patch tools are still great for filling larger areas)  Here's an example but I'm using a mouse quickly so it's messy https://streamable.com/kwj57d Show More

Or improve the sculpting tools inside Maya. It would be amazing to be able to sculpt without the need of using Zbrush anymore. Show More

I love using MASH and it's what got me into MAYA.  I would love to see the advancement of MASH and new tools for MASH as it is a portion of the toolset that is a vital part of my everyday use.   Better integration into After Effects would be great as well. Show More

Objective:   The Take and Jump Character Performance Portfolio is a platform for students to showcase their skills in basic 2D character animation. In this portfolio, students apply and demonstrate their understanding of fundamental principles and techniques used in 2D animation, such as character movement, facial expressions and body language.  To create a successful portfolio, students must be able to bring their characters to life, making them look and feel believable and engaging. This requires a solid understanding of keyframe animation, pose-to-pose animation, and the use of in-between frames to create smooth and fluid motion.  Overall, The Take and Jump Character Performance Portfolio provides students with a unique opportunity to demonstrate their ability to create dynamic and engaging 2D animation, while also demonstrating their skills in storytelling, creativity, and visual storytelling. The portfolio is an important part of their learning journey and a valuable tool for building their skills and confidence as animators.  Deliverables:  'Take' Project Prep and Planning: Students are expected to prepare and plan their "Take" project, including character design, concept development, and storyboarding.  'Take' Project Key Drawings Line Tested: Students must line test their key drawings for solidity, expressive posing, and squash and stretch to ensure that their animation meets the desired quality standards.  'Take' Project Final – Anticipation and Reaction/Squash and Stretch: Students are expected to produce a final animation that includes anticipation and reaction/squash and stretch, demonstrating their understanding of these animation principles.  'Take' Project Final - Timing, Spacing, Motion Paths: Students must demonstrate a clear understanding of timing, spacing, and motion paths in their final "Take" project.  Jump Project Prep and Planning: Similar to the "Take" project, students must prepare and plan their "Jump" project, including character design, concept development, and storyboarding.  Jump Project Key Drawings Line Test: Students must line test their key drawings for solidity, expressive posing, and squash and stretch to ensure that their animation meets the desired quality standards.  Jump Project Final – Anticipation and reaction/ Squash and stretch: Students are expected to produce a final animation that includes anticipation and reaction/squash and stretch, demonstrating their understanding of these animation principles.  Jump Project Final - Timing, Spacing, Motion Paths: Students must demonstrate a clear understanding of timing, spacing, and motion paths in their final "Jump" project.  your help is greatly appreciated! Show More

It would be nice to have some sort of folder structure for materials and textures inside the hypershade.  So if I've got several characters and an environment in the same scene (for example) I could more easily navigate to the materials associated with each asset in the scene.  So for example, I could have directories for all the materials associated with each individual character, another one for the environment materials, etc. Show More

The new feature of Maya 2025 that I saw today is the Deformer widget. Thank you to the developer team, but I believe it can become even better. Firstly, there should be icons for each deformer, making it clear at a glance. Secondly, it should be a hierarchical operation similar to mash, rather than manipulating the order of deformers through up and down buttons. I have developed my own tool here, and I believe it can provide better and more intuitive operations. Show More

For the love of god, Blender, Houdini, & even Cinema4D are getting crazy updates. Not just performance improvements and occasional new features that sometimes feel like somthing that was missing for a long time, but actually quality updates with big leaps each year in various different fields. Maya is one of the most expensive 3D softwares for a reason, and it is also the industry standard. The updates however, do not feel worth the price.    There are tons of great ideas here seemingly neglected. For example, a 3ds Max like modifier stack system, that's been on the top of this board for YEARS, however it is still marked under review. I am not denying that there are some good updates, like the Boolean toolkit & the Sweep Mesh tool, but Maya could use a lot more improvement in terms of polygon modeling.   Not only that, but just overall, a great improvement in the updates Maya gets would be phenomenal, something comparable to what we see happening with other software. As a sidenote, fixing bugs & stability issues should definitely still be kept as a major priority.  Show More

Other applications like 3ds Max and Softimage give you more complete and more reliable control over the construction history (modifier stack) of an object.  Plus, the user experience in editing that history is better than it is in Maya.  Currently, Maya's construction history isn't very useful beyond the last-created node.   Here is a list of things we should be able to do with construction history in Maya, directly in the UI (e.g. Channel Box) Reorder operations in the history chain Easily turn an operator on/off (mute) Delete history nodes Delete "up to here" history nodes (like "Collapse To" in 3ds Max) Copy/paste history nodes Instantiate history nodes Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "If I open Maya and then go to file > open, Maya prompts me to save the empty scene it created when it opened. It also auto-saves blank scenes if I leave it open for a while. " Show More

Bring Animbot features or toolset to maya. Animators are Paying high amount of money for maya but still need to buy plugin and script for space switch and blending between frames. Even H that just updated their software can do all dis easily Show More

Color Settings is a mess in Maya and it need a total revamp. It's need to have:   - Ability to search. - Active and Inactive needs to be at the same window with an easy way of choosing both color at the same window. - Active Index Palette need to be replaced by Color Wheel on every settings on the list. - Ability to have a preset list so you can load and save different color palettes. - At the moment there is no consistency when and where to have a color picker, you need to guess which setting will have a color picker! - Sliders needs to go away! it's not efficient and too old!     Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   Maya needs to be more procedural, like Houdini, XSI (ICE), etc.   "Integrate and improve the SOuP toolset into Maya. There is so much in there for all categories, I didn't even know which one to put it in. Include all these workflows at soup-dev.com, consult and compensate the included parties, to learn from their r&d, and further improve upon the the goal of a procedural modeling/dynamics and opendata conversion of paintfx/fluids/nparticles/nCloth/nHair/meshes and all other data within Maya."   "Having interactive bevels on selection like this video shows it's possible with the addition of some Soup nodes, would be a major improvement to Maya modeling workflow. Being able to add and subtract bevels on selected edges on the fly , would make for a 10 stars addition to Maya's modeling toolset. Please consider this!"   Some links: https://vimeo.com/146695098 Show More

Maya's biggest problems right now are: Chaff: Tools which linger on in a semi-functional state for legacy reasons, for example: Paint Effects--completely closed L-system, poor renderer support, doesn't talk to the rest of Maya Vector renderer--essentially abandonware image filter at this point Shatter--hard-coded one-off operation which hasn't been updated in decades cMuscle--clunky, semifunctional, should have been replaced with a FEM solution a decade ago Smaller stuff like 'joint stiffness' which never worked and should just be taken out, closestPointOnMesh which still doesn't support pickable uvSets, and so on 'Interactive' binding using influence objects (themselves different from the new deformer falloffs, which are different from MASH falloffs, which are different from Bifrost falloffs, etc), which no-one ever uses in production Poor integration: Frameworks which, although powerful, do not share data easily, recreate functionality found elsewhere, impose new interaction paradigms and generally feel 'tacked-on', for example: XGen--buggy and bureaucratic MASH--good for mograph but essentially a 'Bifrost lite' when they should be unified; looks like it could be leveraged for rigging but runs too slowly for that Bifrost; in essence a 'hosted application' that needs clunky workarounds to talk to the Maya scene and gets schooled by Blender's "geometry nodes" in terms of integration The sculpting toolkit, tacked on from Mudbox, omits basics such as multires and textures, clunks out when you push its interaction The poly modelling toolkit, bought as a plugin and shoved in; Maya struggles to preserve its context around snapping / live surfaces etc.; other mesh tools clearly operate under a different 'system' Artisan (hopelessly outdated for texture painting, replicates some sculpt tools, diverges for symmetry etc) Asset containers which were shoved in and then abandoned without any support for the (then newer) Node Editor, persistent keying bugs and so on Maya just needs 1-2 versions without any new features and, instead, a drive to modernise, clean up and integrate the package so that the different bits can either talk to each other better, or get reimplemented in a unified fashion. Show More

I think the new layout for the "show" menu in the viewport is more tedious than before. The fact that all the elements are now in a submenu "Viewport" makes it hard to toggle things quickly. Also, middle clicking the "show" menu to repeat last command doesn't work in that submenu (which I use a lot to toggle on and off curves when animating)  Middle clicking does work in other submenus in Maya.   The new features of preset is probably useful in some circumstances but I don't see why all the presets commands are prioritized over the rest. Basically I think it would be better to bring back all the elements in the main section of the "show" menu and put the template stuff in a submenu instead. Show More