For example, if you output your work to Unreal Engine you’ll no longer be able to use its Live Link plugin to transfer your work over. This will limit a lot of artists’ abilities to do the work they need to. is Maya Creative right for you?Īlongside the reduced toolset, there are also no third-party plugin capabilities. The only saving grace in this area is with Bifrost, but before you get your hopes up, that is read-only access rather than authoring. It contains none of these effects and as we’ll see later, you can’t make up for that with third-party plugins. So if you use fur, hair, cloth or fluids you can kiss goodbye to this version of Maya being for you. This is a shame but I suppose they had to cut their cloth somewhere.
It contains almost all the tools for those along with rigging, rendering and motion graphics, but it lacks pretty much all the dynamics and effects. Maya Creative is aimed directly at artists who focus solely on modelling and animation.
But price isn’t everything and it’s hard to tell whether it’s worth it until you know what you’re getting for it. The proof will be in the pudding and if we see a new version of the stripped-back Maya then we’ll have our answer. It’s therefore hard to see who this token-based system is really going to benefit. That said, I would expect most studios that use Maya to need the extended capabilities offered by the full version. This pricing flexibility might appeal to some studios and the ability to assign tokens to users within an organisation helps to manage ever-changing requirements. (As usual with Autodesk you can download a free trial version (opens in new tab) at the Autodesk website.) That level of commitment could put many artists off and make the barrier to entry too high as a result.
What’s not to love? Well, for those who are looking for occasional use, it’s worth noting that you have to buy 100 tokens as a minimum. If you were to use it every day, Maya Creative still works out at around half the price of the full version of Maya.
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