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

Autodesk releases Maya 2017 Update 3

Sizeable update to Maya adds new motion graphics, animation, hair grooming and fluid simulation tools.

Friday, March 3rd, 2017

Autodesk releases Maya LT 2017 Update 3

Cut-down version of Maya for game artists gets revamped UV Editor, new Bake Deformer tool, updates to Viewport 2.0.

Friday, February 24th, 2017

DGDM releases SLiB Leuchtkraft 1.6 for Maya

Updated: Nifty Maya lighting design plugin gets support for dome lights, option to import custom HDRIs.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

DGDM releases SLiB | Browser Pro 2.0 for Maya

Free update to Maya shader manager adds support for metadata, multiple shader libraries.

Friday, December 9th, 2016

Download the Maya 2017 Bonus Tools

Set of free Maya add-ons gets new Weight Editor for character rigging, new modelling and display options.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

Nvidia is releasing Mental Ray for Maya for free

For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Maya 2017

Eric Keller's 18-hour training video provides a complete guide to professional workflows in Maya.

Friday, November 11th, 2016

Discover 15 of the best animation tools for Maya

Check out Brent Forrest's handy list of add-ons at LesterBanks.com - all but one of them available for free.

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

Gnomon ships Introduction to Redshift for Maya

Get up and running with the GPU based renderer with Christophe Desse's complete four-hour video.

Monday, October 10th, 2016

Download free Maya workflow utility Helios

Version 1.1 update: Neat add-on for accessing Maya commands faster gets new UI, better search algorithm.

Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

Get Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max or Maya

Updated: Maya version of AMD's free, physically accurate OpenCL based GPU renderer now available.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2016

Autodesk unveils Maya LT 2017

Videos: Games-focused edition of Maya gets animation Time Editor, UI and workflow enhancements.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016