Autodesk puts trainable AI motion generation and real-time rendering inside Maya and 3ds Max

At SIGGRAPH 2026 on July 22, Autodesk shipped updates across its animation and visual-effects tools: Maya's MotionMaker can now train motion generation on a studio's own capture or hand-keyed animation, 3ds Max gained fully editable 3D Gaussian Splats, the Arnold renderer added real-time viewport rendering inside Maya, and the Flow Production Tracking review tool got real-time multi-user annotation.

What it means Generative capability is landing inside the tools artists already use daily — trainable on their own footage — rather than as a separate app to adopt.