3D Modelling
Polygon, NURBS, and subdivision surface tools for building characters, props, and environments with precision. Smart Extrude and Boolean modelling accelerate complex hard-surface work.
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What it is, and why teams use it.
What Autodesk Maya is
The industry-standard 3D animation, modelling and VFX toolset trusted by the world's leading film and game studios. Autodesk Maya is the professional benchmark for character animation, 3D modelling, simulation and rendering.
Maya sits at the heart of creative pipelines across the globe, on Academy Award-winning films and blockbuster video game titles. The toolset covers polygon and NURBS modelling, AI-assisted motion generation, Bifrost multi-physics simulation and fully integrated Arnold rendering, all in a single production environment built for scale.
Where it fits
Storm FX supplies Autodesk Maya to media & entertainment and education teams across Australia and New Zealand. We'll talk through licensing, hardware and pipeline fit before you commit.
Key features
What Autodesk Maya brings.
Character Rigging & Animation
Industry-leading rigging tools including HumanIK, advanced skinning, blend shapes, and a fully redesigned Time Slider. Motion capture integration and the AI-powered MotionMaker generate high-quality character movement quickly.
Bifrost Multi-Physics
Visual programming environment for creating physically accurate simulations. Explosions, ocean surfaces, cloth, fluids and particle effects, all without writing code.
Arnold Rendering
GPU and CPU path-tracing renderer fully integrated into Maya, with real-time Arnold Render View and LookdevX material authoring for physically accurate lighting and materials.
OpenUSD Pipeline
Native USD support for managing complex multi-asset scenes across teams and across software, with full interoperability for studio pipelines.
Scripting & Pipeline Integration
Python 3 and MEL scripting, Flow Production Tracking (ShotGrid) integration, and Unreal Live Link for real-time preview in Unreal Engine.
Use cases
How it plays out in practice.
Walt Disney Animation Studios: Zootopia 2
Maya sat at the centre of the animation pipeline, with environment modelling supervisors using it to build the film's richly detailed cityscapes and populate them at scale.
Framestore: Aviation VFX
VFX supervisors used Maya to craft hundreds of complex flight sequence animation shots, crediting the software's depth of rigging and simulation tools for enabling believable aerodynamic movement.
SEGA: Game Character Animation
Lead character animators rely on Maya's MEL and Python tool development capabilities to build custom studio workflows tailored to each production's specific requirements.
Across industries
Where Autodesk Maya earns its keep.
In production
Autodesk Maya at work.
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