Autodesk ships Maya 2020 and Maya LT 2020

Varied update adds support for simulations in cached playback; new retopology and rigging tools.

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

StemCell converts 3ds Max, Maya files to UE4 and Unity

Updated: TurboSquid tech converts files in the native format of one 3D app to that of another. Now also exports USDZ files.

Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Maya Update 2

Update adds RTX-accelerated GPU ray tracing, new animation-friendly light cache and deep EXR output.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.0 for 3ds Max and Maya

Fluid simulator gets new rigid body solver and texture UVW system. 3ds Max edition now integrated with thinkingParticles.

Sunday, November 24th, 2019

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.8 for Maya

Free GPU renderer gets new 'full spectrum rendering' mode for hybrid rasterised/ray traced viewport previews.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Download Maya hair plugin Shave and a Haircut 9.6 free

Get the hair and fur plugin and its Arnold, RenderMan and V-Ray shaders from Epic Games for free.

Thursday, October 24th, 2019

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.7 for Maya

Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat Art Directable Rest Shapes system lets you sculpt corrective shapes for existing sims.

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

Download two lightweight free Maya cartoon character rigs

Get Squiggly Rigs' expressive free Maya character rigs, designed for educational and demo reel use.

Sunday, September 22nd, 2019

Download Toolchefs' open-source Maya animation tools

Updated: get a new camera lattice deformer free as well as the harmonic deformer, soft IK solver and key reducer.

Monday, September 9th, 2019

Get promising Maya real-time Boolean plugin speedCut

Get Joe Wu's neat non-destructive real-time Boolean modelling add-on, currently in free open beta.

Wednesday, August 21st, 2019

The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Maya 2019

Master modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed introductory training.

Tuesday, August 20th, 2019

Screenspace creates pickers for Maya rigs that act as HUDs

Animal Logic software engineer Eddie Hoyle's neat free tool fixes rig controls to the Maya viewport.

Thursday, August 15th, 2019

Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 5.0.4 for Maya

Gaseous fluid simulator gets new multiview option for the GPU viewport, more controls for Turbulence Noise.

Friday, August 9th, 2019