Autodesk Maya 2026 – 3D animation software

Autodesk Maya 2026 is the 3D animation, 3D modeling, 3D simulation, 3D rendering, and compositing software. It offers a comprehensive creative feature set on a highly extensible production platform.

This Autodesk software provides high-end character and effects toolsets along with increased productivity for 3D modeling, texturing, and shader creation tasks.

Create impressive dynamic effects. Bring your scenes to life with tools to simulate and render hair, fur, feathers, cloth, liquids, fluids, particles, and rigid and soft bodies.

Autodesk Latest PROMOTIONS and Special Offers

Autodesk Maya 2026 3D animation has the specialized tools for character creation, 3D editorial, and keyframing. Bring your imagination to life with the Maya 3D animation toolset. It used to create some of the most believable 3D characters in entertainment.

Maya 2026 is a highly customizable and extensible app. That offers several avenues for pipeline integration. It provides extensive scripting and API (application programming interface) tools. Also provides streamlined workflows with certain 2D and 3D apps, and tools for handling large data sets.

Build and texture both organic and hard-surface models with an extensive polygon toolset. As well as powerful, production-proven NURBS and subdivision surface tools.

Autodesk Maya 2026 turns your ideas into images. Whether your target platform is the big screen or small, or you are creating highly realistic imagery or stylized cartoons.

• Maya Fluid Effects. Simulate and render a huge variety of atmospheric, pyrotechnic, viscous liquid, and open ocean effects. Maya Fluid Effects overcomes one of the greatest barriers in computer animation.
• Maya Fur. Easy creation of realistic fur, short hair, wool and grass on NURBS or polygonal models. Incredibly realistic styling and rendering of short hair and fur, with Maya Artisan brush interface for painting fur attributes.
• Maya Cloth. The fastest and most accurate software solution for simulating a wide variety of digital clothing and other fabric objects. Any cloth object can be animated including sails, skins, tents, drapery, bedding, etc.
• Maya Live. Sophisticated matchmoving combines 2D live-action with 3D elements. Provides greater flexibility, a fast integrated 2D tracker and an interactive root frame solver.
• Maya Hair. Tools for the creation, styling and rendering of fully dynamic long hair on NURBS or polygon objects. Make any NURBS curve dynamic for use in advanced character rigging and effects. Create a wide range of other “non-hair” effects too.

Autodesk Maya 2026 Complete:

• Intuitive User Interface
• Data and Scene Management Tools
• Polygon Modeling
• NURBS Modeling
• Subdivision Surface Modeling
• General Animation
• Character Animation
• Deformers
• Rigid and Soft Body Dynamics
• Particles and Fields
• Maya Paint Effects
• Toon Shader
• Maya Artisan
• 3D Paint
• Multiple Rendering Options
• Rendering Controls and Effects
• MEL
• Maya API/SDK
• Connectivity and Integration

What’s New in Autodesk Maya 2026:

• What’s New in Modeling. New modeling updates in Maya include updates to the boolean node and a new dialog to set units for STL files.
• Share cuts to Animate in Context. Animate in Context allows shot-based artists to view the shots surrounding their active scene directly in Maya.
• What’s New in Rigging and Character Animation.Various customer-requested updates and improvements for riggers and animators.
• Introducing Golaem. Golaem, a crowd simulation and character layout plug-in for Maya, is now available as part of the Media & Entertainment Collection. Golaem makes it easy to populate worlds with digital characters.
• Default surface shader: OpenPBR. OpenPBR is now the default surface shader in Maya.
• Arnold for Maya 5.5.0. Maya 2026 includes Arnold version 5.5.0.
• Bifrost 2.13.0.0. Bifrost 2.13.0.0 includes the ability to simulate liquids directly in the graph, together with many other new features.
• What’s New in USD for Maya. USD for Maya 0.31 now supports light linking.
• What’s New in LookdevX for Maya. LookdevX 1.7.0 for Maya introduces improved publishing workflows, relative paths support, and a new generative textures API.
• Flow Retopology for Maya 1.3. Flow Retopology is now included with Maya 2026. Use Flow Retopology to work with complex geometry and offload job processing to the cloud.
• Substance 3.0.4. Substance for Maya has been updated to version 3.0.4.
• Flow Wedging Tutorials. There’s a new playlist of videos for those who want to try out Flow Wedging.

What’s New in Autodesk Maya 2025:

• Motion Trail updates. Maya’s Motion Trails system has been revisited for 2025, making it more effective and flexible.
• Updated Dope Sheet Editor. The Dope Sheet has been reworked for a quick, intuitive way to understand, manipulate, and adjust animation timing.
• Graph Editor Hotkey Changes. Two keyboard shortcuts for the Graph Editor Curve Sculpting tools have changed.
• Developer Help portal. Developer Help for Maya 2025 now has its own dedicated web site.
• Arnold for Maya 5.4.0. Maya 2025 includes Arnold version 5.4.0.
• USD for Maya 0.27 Plug-inUpdated Universal Scene Description (USD) plug-in allows artists to bulk load and unload multiple prims.
• LookdevX for Maya 1.3.0 Plug-in. The latest update to LookdevX introduces support for the MaterialX data format. Artists can now assign MaterialX materials directly to Maya geometry.
• Bifrost 2.9.0.0. Bifrost 2.9.0.0 includes many new and improved features, including new nodes for simulating ocean waves with foam. You can create spectral waves for water surfaces driven by wind over both time and distance, and combine them with dynamic waves for wakes and ripples caused by colliders.
• Substance 2.5.0. Autodesk Maya 2025 includes Substance version 2.5.0.
• Bonus Tools now included. Bonus Tools are now included in the installer.

Homepage – https://www.autodesk.eu

Supported 64-bit operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows 10, version 1809 or higher.
• Microsoft Windows 11
• Apple macOS 15.x, 14.x, 13.x
• Linux Red Hat Enterprise 8.10 WS, 9.3 WS, 9.5 WS
• Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.3, 9.5

Size: 2.70 GB

DOWNLOAD Maya 2026 Trial (Windows x64, Mac, Linux x64)

DOWNLOAD Maya 2026 Trial PART 1 for Windows

DOWNLOAD Maya 2026 Trial PART 2 for Windows

DOWNLOAD Maya 2026 Trial for macOS [offline]

DOWNLOAD Maya 2026 Trial for Linux [offline]

DOWNLOAD Maya Creative 2026 Trial PART 1 for Windows

DOWNLOAD Maya Creative 2026 Trial PART 2 for Windows

DOWNLOAD Maya Creative 2026 Trial for macOS

DOWNLOAD Free Autodesk Software Trials Now!

BUY NOW Autodesk Maya 2026

BUY NOW Autodesk Maya LT 2026

Autodesk Latest PROMOTIONS and Special Offers

BUY NOW Autodesk 2026 Products [UK]

BUY NOW Autodesk 2026 Products [Europe]

BUY NOW Autodesk 2026 Subscriptions

BUY NOW Autodesk AutoCAD 2026

BUY NOW Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2025

BUY NOW Autodesk 3ds Max 2025 [US Store]

BUY NOW Autodesk MEDIA and ENTERTAINMENT COLLECTION!

BUY NOW Autodesk PRODUCT DESIGN COLLECTION!