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Create and manage essential data for software, interactive, or in-game 3D rendering.

Visualize how motions within two or more Trax clips match in order to more easily adjust how they blend together.

Transfer animation between characters via the new ATOM (Animation Transfer Object Model) offline file format.

Take advantage of a new interactive Retime tool, and a stepped preview mode for pose-to-pose animation.

Edit animation directly in the viewport.

Take better advantage of powerful bipedal character rigging and animation tools with enhancements to the HumanIK® feature set.

Accelerate previsualization and virtual moviemaking production with the Camera Sequencer.

Access a broad range of specialized tools for keyframe, procedural, and scripted animation.

Create, skin, rig, and pose believable characters.

Simulate both soft and rigid bodies in a single system, with this high-performance open source physics engine.

Create static, dynamic, and kinematic rigid-body simulations directly in the Maya viewport at high speeds.

Create highly realistic shattering simulations with multiple interacting materials.

Simulate a wide range of complex 3D visual effects, including liquids, clouds, smoke, spray, and dust.

Create realistic clothing and other deformable materials.

Simulate and render realistic atmospheric, explosive, viscous liquid, and open water effects.

Create realistic fur, short hair, and grass.

Create realistic simulations of multiple rigid and flexible objects.

Achieve a vast range of look variations with a library of 80 Substance procedural textures.

Evaluate your work in a higher fidelity interactive environment.

Work within the context of the final color space in which images will be viewed.

Fully featured high-performance HDR-capable compositor.

Professional 3D camera tracking with automated and manual controls.

Use idle processors on networked workstations to finish rendering faster with five licenses of mental ray® for Maya batch**.

Choose from integrated software, hardware, vector, and mental ray® renderers.

Create realistic natural detail and painterly effects and transform 3D scenes into compelling cartoon or "hand-drawn" animations.

Distill complex animated and simulated data into application-independent baked geometry.

Create, edit, and debug node networks more easily with the new Node Editor.

Segment, reuse, and exchange data with assets and file referencing to efficiently manage large data sets.

Increase efficiency, customize features, and create competitive differentiation with Mel and Python® scripting, and an extensive C++ and Python API.