Nvidia ships Iray for 3ds Max and Maya 2016

Share physically based materials between host apps or mental ray with the plugins' new MDL format.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

Autodesk unveils Maya LT 2016 Extension 2

Subscriber-only update adds option to import or export weight maps, new baking and LOD functionality.

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Get free Maya shader library building tool BlissLib

Download TD Einar Gabbassov's free framework for building custom libraries of Maya, mental ray and RenderMan shaders.

Friday, November 20th, 2015

Hans Godard ships Skinning Converter for Maya

Naughty Dog TD's nifty plugin turns any animated mesh into a bone based rig - even Alembic caches and cloth sims.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

Download DGDM's free Maya SLiB | Browser plugin

Updated: Handy add-on offers a simple way to browse shaders. New Pro edition lets you export them, too.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

Gnomon ships Introduction to Maya 2016

Maya expert Eric Keller's 11-hour tutorial provides a complete guide to the industry-standard 3D app.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

Video: the future of modelling in Maya

See some neat work-in-progress tech for sculpting with adaptive topology, recorded at Siggraph 2015.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

Luxion launches KeyShot plugins for Maya, Cinema 4D

Free add-ons let users access the renderer directly from their software or export BIP files without KeyShot.

Saturday, August 15th, 2015

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max and Maya 2016 Extension 1

Videos: see all the new features in both apps, including new games functionality and new 3D text tools.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2015

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