Maya Product Enhancements, Benefits & Roadmap

Maya enhancements over the years

Over the years, Maya has delivered top-quality updates to help you work faster and more efficiently. We continue to focus on creating more artist-friendly experiences across disciplines.

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Maya over the past 5 years

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Enhancements

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Maya enhancement timeline

2025 | 2025.1 |2025.2<br> featured enhancements for Maya Feature Image

2025 | 2025.1 |2025.2featured enhancements for Maya

Smart Extrude
Bevel Improvements
Redesigned Dope Sheet
Motion Trail Updates
Deformation Widget
Bifrost Ocean Simulation System (BOSS)
Liquid Meshing
Bifrost Rigging
LookdevX Enhancements
OpenUSD Integration Updates
Hydra Enhancements
Flow Retopology
ML Deformer

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2024 | 2024.1 | 2024.2 <br>featured enhancements for Maya Feature Image

2024 | 2024.1 | 2024.2featured enhancements for Maya

Time Slider Redesign
New Graph Editor Sculpting Tools
Multiple Skin Cluster Support
Mac M1 Architecture Support
MPM Gel and MPM Rubber in Bifrost
Component Tags in Bifrost
Modeling Toolset Enhancements
Rigging and Animation Toolset Enhancements
LookdevX Enhancements
OpenUSD Integration Updates

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2023 | 2023.1 | 2023.2 | 2023.3 featured enhancements for Maya

Blue Pencil 2D Drawing Tools
Cached playback improvements
Animation performance improvements
USD across Maya's toolset
USD in Bifrost
Bifrost updates
Enhanced Boolean toolset
Retopologize enhancements
Faster manipulation of mesh components
QuadDraw performance improvements
New mesh wireframe opacity settings
Rigging improvements for better precision

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2020, 2020.1, 2020.2, 2020.3, 2020.4 featured enhancements for Maya

60+ Animation Features
Cached Playback updates
Animation Bookmarks
Arnold GPU
Bifrost for Maya
Viewport Improvements
Remesh Tool
Retopologize Tool
Rigging Improvements
Native Plugin for Rokoko's Motion Library
A Guide to Getting Started with the Motion Library Plugin in Maya
Time Slider Bookmark Improvements: Interactively move and scale bookmarks

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Customer ideas for Maya

What is the most effective way to request a new feature or product enhancement for Autodesk Maya? Submit your idea to the Maya forum and vote up the ones you’d like to see implemented.

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