r/Maya is a subreddit with 105k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses maya, rigging, animation, modeling, and looking for, and they frequently recommend/review render farm, mouse, and modeling software.
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Popular Themes in r/Maya
#1
Advice Requests
: "Tutorial on how to fix shading by transfering vertex normals."
19 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I made a free tool to copy skin weights between specific vertex selections across meshes — SkinPassVtx"
12 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Really desperate for an answer. just finished retopologizing this entire thing with quad draw. how on earth does it mark this many non manifolds??? and how do i fix it when cleanup completely garbles it and merge vertices doesnt work"
4 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "BEAR - An Auto-Rigging Tool for Maya. The basic version is free for personal use."
3 posts
Popular Topics in r/Maya
#1
Maya
: "Maya FX Tutorials (nDynamics, MASH, Bifrost)"
286 posts
#2
Rigging
: "Beretta rig, I love Rigging so much"
65 posts
#3
Animation
: "Dance Animation feedback welcome"
62 posts
#4
Modeling
: "Wall-E character Modeling for 3d print."
55 posts
#5
Looking For
42 posts
#6
Problem
: "Problems with support loops in intersection between plan surface and curved surface"
39 posts
#7
Tool
: "I made a free Tool to manage and visualize instances in Maya [Python]"
33 posts
#8
Struggling
32 posts
#9
Rendering
: "How can I achieve this kind of stylized Rendering with Maya?"
25 posts
#10
Feedback
: "Creating a Apartment Interior in Maya and Unreal Engine. Would love Feedback!"
21 posts
Products Discussed in r/Maya
Render Farm
24 reviews
#1
XRender
5.0★ from 3 reviews
#2
Super Render Farm
5.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
Fox Renderfarm
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Mouse
12 reviews
#1
Logitech
5.0★ from 6 reviews
#2
3Dconnexion
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
XP-Pen
4.0★ from 1 review
Modeling Software
9 reviews
#1
Maya
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#2
Mari
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
ZBrush
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/Maya
#1
Animation
: "When you get a successful UV unwrap on the first try"
37 posts
#2
Modeling
: "Wilcox Raid-X (HardSurface Practice, I tried to go all quads for this one)"
22 posts
#3
Showcase
: "my willem dafoe 3d portrait rendered with arnold"
21 posts
#4
Question
: "How do you model from ambiguous concept art?"
20 posts
#5
Looking for Critique
: "Feedback for shoulder and torso deformation"
11 posts
#6
General
: "Wall-E character modeling for 3d print."
11 posts
#7
Issues
: "Maya Mesh exports into Zbrush and Substance off-center."
11 posts
#8
Discussion
: "I can’t accept that there are still people who don’t know about this free plugin—it perfectly replaces animBot."
10 posts
#9
Rigging
: "WIP- Robot for a 3D Short Film - 2D eye rig on 3D surface"
10 posts
#10
Plugin
: "BEAR - An Auto-Rigging Tool for Maya. The basic version is free for personal use."
8 posts
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Last updated: June 4, 2026