r/Maya•
VRising

A bit of a nitpick but the new Maya icon needs a better design

Discussion

I am talking about this one seen on this page https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya or the Maya Learning Channel on YT.

The M on top with AYA on the bottom just doesn't work.

Posted Mar 30, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC · edited

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Nixolas•

I’ve never seen that. It’s very strange. It reads: M…. aya?

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derprunner•

The new 2023 suite that just dropped seems to be using this new design. Looks dumb as hell IMO.

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VRisingOP•

Also as an icon which needs readability when it's small it can be mistaken for AVA on first glance.

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Virtual_Pilot_999•

Its crap but hey atlest i wont mistake which version like maya2020 or maya2022..

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VRisingOP•

They also have a version without "AYA" and if that's the direction they are going then please remove the "AYA" version from the interface it's hideous. Please and ty.

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Le_Borsch•

Ayaya!

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McPiranha•

It looks like Microsoft Word's weird identical twin

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C4_117•

It looks like they're copying Adobe with the letters. But they don't want to run out of letters so they added the name below..... without the initial.

Just write maya below the M. The old logo was fine.

Too many managers, not enough developers.

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Zaphod_BiblebroxLead 3D Artist @ILM•

You should have seen the Maya icon from around maya 5…… that was a bad icon

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VRisingOP•

Perhaps but I just don't know who they could iterate and eventually land on the one they have. Surely they had better versions?

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Zaphod_BiblebroxLead 3D Artist @ILM•

You’d be surprised :D

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Draico01•

Maya in general needs a redesign

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the_phantom_limbo•

If they kill your muscle memory, and end-of-line your old files...you'd ditch it forever and pick up another tool that you might trust to stay current.

So they need to keep it familiar, and try to prop it up with more bloat.

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Draico01•

Yeah but all maya's tools need updating... be it performing snappier and updating old tools

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schmon•

remember when they fucked us and made all the fucking icons gray.

it was around that time i switched to H

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