Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.5 for Maya

Skin and muscle simulation plugin gets new solvers for faster, more controllable secondary dynamics.

Thursday, December 13th, 2018

Autodesk ships Maya 2018.5 and Maya LT 2018.5

Online changelog suggests that they're both just bugfixes on the way to Maya and Maya LT 2019.

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender

OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.12 for 3ds Max and Maya

Fluid simulator gets support for instancing sims, plus volumetric rendering on the GPU via V-Ray Next for Maya.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

Next Limit releases RealFlow | Maya 1.1

First update to the Maya edition of RealFlow adds Visualizer daemon to preview forces in the viewport.

Monday, November 5th, 2018

PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4 for Maya

Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Monday, October 29th, 2018

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya

Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.

Friday, October 26th, 2018

Create a female hairstyle for production with Maya's XGen

Master current workflows for creating realistic hair with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Saturday, October 20th, 2018

New plugin implements elastic implicit skinning in Maya

Novel method promises fewer artefacts and better skin contact than dual quaternion skinning.

Monday, October 8th, 2018

New Streaming Server script live-links Mosketch to Maya

Pose characters by drawing in the viewport with Moka Studio's innovative animation tool, then see the result in Maya.

Friday, October 5th, 2018

Free Maya script Couture helps retopologise 3D clothing

Handy tool helps convert 3D scans or Marvelous Designer models into animation-ready low-poly assets.

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 3 of V-Ray Next for Maya

Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising.

Monday, September 17th, 2018

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