Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.1 for Maya

Sizeable update adds two new VR camera types, extends V-Ray RT GPU, boosts performance all round.

Friday, July 31st, 2015

Andrew Hazelden releases RocketComp for Maya

Handy new plugin automatically builds a compositing project from render output in 10 leading 2D apps.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2015

Hans Godard releases Switch Constraint for Maya

Switch a driven object between driver objects at a mouse click with the Naughty Dog TD's handy plugin.

Saturday, July 11th, 2015

10 tips for using Maya's XGen in production

Digital Domain's Stefano Giorgetti provides his tips for making best use of Maya's instancing system.

Thursday, June 4th, 2015

Thunder Cloud ships GMH 2.6 for Maya

Neat MEL script lets you model hair as geometry, then covert it to Maya Hair - and now also to poly strips.

Friday, May 15th, 2015

Andrew Hazelden releases PlayblastVR for Maya

Dover Studios co-founder's previz renderer outputs images in panoramic VR formats, or as 360° YouTube videos.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Discover the new features in Maya 2016

Videos: see the new sculpting tools, Delta Mush deformer, updates to Bifrost and revamped Hypershade.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Thunder Cloud Studio releases GMH2 for Maya

Updated, sneak peek at version 2.6: Neat script lets users create hair as polys, then convert to Maya Hair.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

Get a free region rendering tool for Maya and Arnold

Download Arvid Schneider and Rico Koschmitzky's neat add-on for MtoA, plus two new bonus helper tools.

Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

Hans Godard releases RBF Solver for Maya

Naughty Dog TD's neat add-on automatically fires off complex correctives to fix mesh deformation issues in rigs.

Monday, March 9th, 2015

Autodesk announces Maya LT 2016

Indie-game-focused version of Maya to get new brush-based sculpting and UV workflows, PBR shading.

Monday, March 2nd, 2015

Mainframe North releases Mash 3.3 for Maya

Set of 27 handy motion graphics nodes now available on Linux as well as Windows and Mac OS X.

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Miquel Campos releases mGear for Maya for free

Download this open source modular character rigging framework, based on the Gear system for Softimage.

Monday, February 9th, 2015