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

AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya

Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Ziva Dynamics releases free trial of Ziva VFX for Maya

Test the Maya skin and muscle system used on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for free.

Monday, April 10th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Maya

Sizeable update to renderer adds interactive lights, better interactive look dev, resumable rendering.

Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: fluid simulator gets new FLIP solver for liquids, updated gaseous fluid solver, new forces.

Friday, March 10th, 2017