I had some much needed down time last week after 2 straight weeks of conferences. GDC was fun, but as always exhausting. We had a great show though, particularly since we got to show new versions of pretty much all of our entertainment products. I did primarily Maya 2011 demos and met with various game developers to discuss the details with them.

This short window of down time is just the calm before the storm because soon I will be on the road a lot... crisscrossing the country, meeting with game developers to discuss all the new stuff.  SF, LA, Seattle, Montreal, Vancouver... here I come!!

Anyone see "Up in the Air"?  That's pretty much my life when I'm on the road... well except for the affair part..  that and the part about having to fire people. That would suck.  Luckily my job is way cooler than that :)  The title sequence in particular (which is cool) is something I'm all too familiar with. 

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So anyway...  here is a quick movie showing most of the animation related updates in Maya2011.  In it I primarily discuss the improvements to the GraphEditor and all of the great curve and key management tools that were added.

Quick credit... thanks to Marcel deJong for putting together the original demo file showing the new Scene Time Warp feature.  Also thanks to Artificial Mind and Movement for providing the content (from their hit game Wet) for our demos.

Note: I did not cover the new animation retargeting stuff in this demo but If you're curious about that and other new Maya 2011 stuff that I showed at GDC you can see it and more in a recording of my Maya presentation...
 

GDC - What's New in Maya2011
 

and you can see all of the other stuff that was shown as well, including customer presentations here...
 

GDC Autodesk Main Stage Presentations