Tutorial: Creature Combat Animation in Maya

Discover how to create a King Kong-style creature fight sequence with The Gnomon Workshop's new five-hour Maya masterclass.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 6 for Maya

Destruction plugin for games and VFX gets a new Edge Fracture Tool, and improvements to clustering and simulation performance.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Maya

Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

These simple free tools convert Maya shaders to Blender

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy open-source tools convert the aiStandardSurface shader to Blender's Principled BSDF.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Get modular Maya character rig builder Mansur-Rig for free

Updated: Version 2.6 of the facial and full-body rig builder for games, animation and VFX characters comes with this free bird rig.

Friday, January 10th, 2025

Łukasz Czyż releases UVPackmaster 3 for Maya

Check out the popular GPU-accelerated UV packing and UV stacking tool, now available for Maya as well as Blender.

Friday, December 13th, 2024

Tutorial - Maya for Animators: Body Mechanics

Discover how to create more believable character animation with The Gnomon Workshop's new intermediate-level Maya tutorial.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2024

WRetargetTool is a versatile free Maya animation retargeting tool

Rigging artist Walter Delgado's intuitive add-on retargets animation between 3D characters, regardless of rig structure.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

Download VFX artist David Llopis's free Maya dragon rig

Get the DNEG Lead Animator's neat free creature rig, licensed for use in portfolio work, and supplied as a Maya MB scene file.

Sunday, November 3rd, 2024

Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Tutorial: Mastering Body Mechanics in Maya

Discover a production-proven, time-saving character animation workflow with The Gnomon Workshop's new Maya masterclass.

Tuesday, September 10th, 2024

Puppeteer Overlap for Maya adds secondary motion to animations

Streamlined new tool automatically adds overlap and follow-through to increase the realism of character and creature animation.

Monday, September 9th, 2024