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

YcdiVFX releases Physics Tools for Maya

Neat new Maya plugin adds instant believable secondary motion to keyframed character animations.

Friday, February 16th, 2018

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