

You can apply for beta program via the link below.Īutodesk hasn’t announced any system requirements for Maya Assist beyond those of Maya itself, or said whether it will be included with Maya subscriptions or as an additional commercial service. Maya Assist will launch in private beta on 5 April 2022. Price, system requirements and release date We’ve previously covered free third-party tools that integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into DCC applications like After Effects, Blender, Nuke and Unity that provide similar natural language controls.Īll are potentially handy time-savers, but we’d expect Maya Assist to need to be able to handle more complex prompts if it is to be really useful in production. You can also try a free trial of Maya for Mac to test it first. Maya isn’t cheap with prices starting at 225 per month for an annual subscription, it’s considerably cheaper than some of its competitors. The examples given in Autodesk’s blog post are fairly simple, including entering text prompts to copy an object, increase its size by 25%, or add a camera to a scene. Maya has recently been updated to work natively with Apple Silicon M1 and M2 Macs.

Autodesk has announced Maya Assist, a new AI-powered system for manipulating scenes inside Maya by entering natural language text prompts, rather than by using the standard tools and menu commands.ĭescribed as “a new way of interacting with Maya scene data” using Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, Maya Assist enters private beta on 5 April 2022.Ĭontrol Maya by entering simple natural language text promptsĪt the minute, we don’t have much more information on Maya Assist than that.
