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

Gnomon releases AO in Maya & mental ray

Master mental ray with Disney veteran Frederic Durand's complete guide to using ambient occlusion.

Tuesday, January 6th, 2015

Gnomon ships Introduction to Maya Fluid Effects 2 and 3

FX TD Wayne Hollingsworth's videos provide a complete guide to creating production-ready simulations.

Thursday, December 18th, 2014

Gnomon ships full guide to GI in Maya and mental ray

Master key techniques with Frederic Durand's Global Illumination and Caustics in Maya & mental ray.

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Gnomon releases Maya Viewport 2.0 and Shader FX

Eric Keller's five-hour DVD provides a complete guide to Maya 2015's powerful real-time previews.

Friday, October 10th, 2014