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Anonymous07/28/25, 06:58No.1015958Animation
Okay, so I see there's a lot of shit flinging on this board over these two programs, and the general conclusion is that Maya is better at animation and used in professional pipelines.
Can someone just explain to me in depth what makes Maya a better program for animation than Blender? I understand blender has it's strengths but I'm just curious about the animation angle. What tools does maya have that makes it superior for animation?
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Anon07/28/25, 09:28No.1015961
Just B urself an use whatever you're used to :)
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Anon07/28/25, 09:32No.1015962
see [/3/thread/1011039#p1011039]
>2.) "Wow! That's a lot of programs! Which one is best? I heard ______ is best."
>You heard wrong, there is no one program that is better than the restOr, you know, one of the bunch of useless software war topics here. Juat fucking choose a program, you can always switch later if you're unhappy
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Anon07/28/25, 10:09No.1015965
Both have their pros and cons. As far as I am aware, Maya has slightly better tools for animation, but I guess its just a preference issue. Blender was somewhat junky in the past when it came to rigging/animating, but has improved a lot and keeps improving.As anons said before, choose whatever you like. Both a reasonable choices.Personally I'd use Blender, because it's free, doesnt even require a registration/account whatsoever and I don't want to pirate any paid software like Maya. Also you will most likely do other 3D related tasks, and Blender can do anything from simulations and procedural generation to modelling and texturing etc.
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Anon07/28/25, 14:13No.1015977
>Can someone just explain to me in depth what makes Maya a better program for animation than Blender?
Nothing does out of the box. There are things you'd be surprised that Blender does better out of the box which you need a paid plugin to do in Maya. Maya is only better for animation because of proprietary tools that have been built for it by animation/effect houses with decades of development and pipeline integration.As a regular user, you don't have access to any of these tools. At best you can buy some of the plugins or "industry" rigs.The hype is mostly know-nothings that jerk off popular industry tools which is unfortunately common in creative fields. They can't objectively evaluate things, they just repeat whatever is used or they think is used by the industry. And when they try other tools, if it's any different than what the "industry" tool is, it's automatically bad because they will never spend the time to learn it.Good animation is independent of the tools used to make it, so pick anything.
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Anon07/28/25, 17:20No.1015989
The fact is maya is better not only in animation is better at everything then blender. Blender suck at everything and is a fact. Any 3d software is better then blender.Blender
Modeling sucks and crash at hight poly and big scene
Uv mapping doesn't make sence and missing tools
Ui depend 100 % on shortcut and has no logic behind it cinema 4d as example has the same ui and it works.
Rendering and simulation crash with even the most powerful pc.
Rigging doesn't make sence.
Community toxic as fuck and love deflecting.
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Anon07/28/25, 18:02No.1015994
I have used both
At a base level they can do the same thing but Blender is more cumbersome and missing a lot of QoL features to streamline animating. I find that blender often got in the way of what I wanted to do because it's systems were outdated or simply didn't do what Maya could. A lot of what you want/need in the graph editor is paid add-ons for Blender but built into Maya by default. Any animator worth their salt will tell you that the Graph editor is the most important part and Blenders is just not quite there.
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Anon07/28/25, 22:00No.1016003
Anyhow, as anons mentioned before me, Maya and Blender are very similar at this point.
If you are a general user exploring and tinkering with 3D, not doing any high end production work whatsoever (which I assume, because otherwise you wouldn't ask this question), then Blender is definitely a good option. It provides you all the tools you need and also has a large library of free extensions accessible that can make certain tasks even easier.You could also pirate Maya, which probably many do who are starting out. Though, I would not recommend it.Whichever software you pick, the quality of your work is dependent on your experience and understanding of how 3D works, not necessarily the tools you use.
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Anon07/29/25, 05:39No.1016018
Different programs with different technical debts(they are both kind of old)With different communities and plugins.Professional studios have been using maya very long and they usually customized it to fit there needs with a bunch of plugins.But maya apparently does have a better multi threaded animation system so it has better performance in previews. Also many people prefer the interface.But a lot of it is "sunk cost" of animation studios.They wouldn't just drop maya but also the plugins and software experience so they likely won't do it.But blender is perfectly fine tool
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Anon07/31/25, 02:28No.1016148
What do you expect of blender fags
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Anon07/31/25, 04:15No.1016150
>what makes Maya a better program for animation than Blender?
Can't afford maya. I can use edu version to learn, but I'd have to buy a subscription to make animations for my indie game.
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Anon07/31/25, 20:24No.1016198
>Can someone just explain to me in depth what makes Maya a better program for animation than Blender?animbot
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Anon08/22/25, 03:52No.1017335
pose modeliterally retarded feature, blenders toolset for animation needs to be unfucked with settings before its decipherable. animators are simpletons when it comes to tools, no amount of plugins can make up for a lack of skill. The best ones can do it well with next to nothing, having too many gadgets can slow you down
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Anon08/27/25, 11:54No.1017631
the only thing i like better about blender is the sculpting in maya is so pointless idk why they even added that crap. now if autodesk had added mudbox functionality to maya, that would be insane, but as it stands maya sculpting sucks and mudbox is unmaintained. i'm not buying zbrush subscription when i had a perpetual license before maxon bought them.