Free tool Kiko ports animation curves from Maya to Nuke

Toolchefs' neat open-source tool transfers curves between DCC apps in a pipeline-friendly way.

Sunday, September 16th, 2018

Optimise your Maya UV layouts with NPK_UV_Layout 1.0

Unify UV scale across 3D objects with Weta modeller Niels Peter Kaagaard's neat commercial script.

Thursday, August 30th, 2018

Autodesk ships Maya 2018.4 and Maya LT 2018.4

Now shipping: update adds Arnold region rendering in the viewport, improved Render Setup workflow.

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for Maya

Update improves the IPR and GPU rendering architectures, extends the new toon and hair shaders.

Saturday, August 11th, 2018

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.4 for Maya

Powerful tissue simulation plugin gets support for Maya Fields, new tools to grow or shrink muscles.

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018

Iray for 3ds Max 1.8 and Iray for Maya 2.1 both ship

Plugin editions of the GPU-based renderer add a bloom filter and better AI denoising in Max; UDIM support in Maya.

Friday, August 3rd, 2018

Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya v2

Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Miquel Campos releases mGear 2.5 for Maya

Free Maya rigging framework gets new RBF Manager and updated Simple Rig auto-rigging system.

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Sneak peek: V-Ray Next for Maya

Video: see the new toon shader coming up in the next major update to the Maya edition of the renderer.

Friday, May 4th, 2018

Autodesk ships Maya 2018.3 and Maya LT 2018.3

Maya itself gets new MASH motion graphics options, GPU-accelerated Wire deformer, but little new in LT.

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

Get Introduction to the UV Toolkit in Autodesk Maya 2018

Master key UV workflows with Gnomon's detailed training video, using assets from artists at The Mill and Guerrilla Games.

Friday, March 9th, 2018

Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 4 for Maya

Destruction plugin gets neat new options to control Voronoi shatter patterns. Dynamics sims now up to 30% faster.

Friday, February 16th, 2018

Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.10 for 3ds Max and Maya

Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.

Friday, February 16th, 2018