Autodesk ships Maya 2018.2

It's a smallish update, but it adds new render options for Bifröst fluid simulations and extends the FBX export process for animations.

Thursday, December 28th, 2017

Appleseed renderer gets new native Maya plugin

Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

IKinema releases Action 5.0 for Maya

Update to mocap solving plugin aims to let users stream, retarget and clean data in Maya in real time.

Friday, October 27th, 2017

Download the Maya 2018 Bonus Tools

Autodesk's set of handy free scripts and plugins now works in Maya 2018, but no new tools this time.

Thursday, October 12th, 2017

Nvidia releases Mental Ray for Maya 1.2

First version of the renderer compatible with Maya 2018, and with Nvidia's upcoming Volta GPUs.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for Maya

Big update adds hybrid CPU/GPU rendering; V-Ray materials and lights work directly in Viewport 2.0.

Thursday, September 14th, 2017

Autodesk ships Maya LT 2018

Cut-down version of Maya for game artists gets Mudbox-style vector displacement map stamping, updates to Graph and Time Editors.

Friday, September 1st, 2017

Download Graph Editor Redux 3.0 for Maya for free

Get Double Negative TD Ron Bublitz's neat - and newly updated - revamp of Maya's curve editor.

Wednesday, August 30th, 2017

Download Ahmed Shalaby's free JasmineRose Maya rig

Get this free stylised female character rig for Maya, with detailed facial animation controls.

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017

Mainframe North releases Bool for Maya

Neat modelling plugin lets you use any native Maya Boolean operation non-destructively, and in real time.

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017

Ephere releases Ornatrix 1.3 for Maya

Popular hair-creation plugin gets new tools for generating realistic mesh hair, new dynamics options.

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

Animal Logic open-sources its AL_USDMaya plugin

Studio's in-house USD authoring plugin for Maya, used on Peter Rabbit, now available open-source.

Friday, August 4th, 2017

Autodesk ships Maya 2018

Viewport 2.0 becomes the primary viewport; new features added to the MASH motion graphics and Bifröst fluid simulation toolsets.

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017