Quote:Maya 2020 highlights include:

— Over 60 animation features and updates to the graph editor and time slider.

— Cached Playback: Experience faster animation playback and more predictable results with new preview modes, layered dynamics caching, and more efficient caching of image planes.

— Animation bookmarks: Mark, organize, and navigate through specific events in time and frame playback ranges.

— Arnold GPU: Access Arnold 6 for production rendering on the CPU and GPU.

— Bifrost for Maya: Significant performance improvements, Cached Playback support, and new MPM cloth constraints bring even more power to the visual programming environment.

— Viewport improvements: Interact with and select dense geometry or a large number of smaller meshes faster in the viewport and UV editors.

— Modeling enhancements: Spend more time modeling and less time cleaning up your models, with new Remesh and Retopologize features.

— Rigging improvements: Simplify rig and character TD work with matrix-driven workflows, nodes for precisely tracking positions on deforming geometry, and a new GPU-accelerated wrap deformer.