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
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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