Download a Maya character rig from Hotel Transylvania

Sony Pictures Animation releases a free simplified version of one of the zombie rigs used on the movie.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

Try new Maya-style menus in Blender 2.72

Now officially released: update adds optional Hotbox-style pie menus, improved texture-painting system.

Monday, October 6th, 2014

Download the free Mery character rig for Maya

Check out the Mery Project's impressive free rigged character. Ideal for student and demo work.

Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

Sigrasoft ships WaxLab 3d sculpting plugin for Maya

Updated: Stefaan Sorensen's new plugin puts Mudbox-style tools right inside Maya. Now available on Linux.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

Janos Hunyadi releases PolyPaint importer for Maya

Scanline VFX artist's handy free tool gets ZBrush texture data into Maya without the need to set up UVs.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

Video: AMD demos new GPU-based Maya renderer

Designed to showcase use of OpenCL 2.0 for raytracing, and due for an open-source release.

Monday, September 1st, 2014

Autodesk releases Maya & 3ds Max 2015 Extension 1

New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Download over 80 free 3ds Max, Maya & V-Ray materials

Updated: RenderBox Studio's free online library now includes two new sets of car paint materials.

Monday, July 21st, 2014

CoreCG halves price of MentalCore 1.7 for Maya

Cost of the new version of the mental ray rendering toolkit cut to $99 for a node-locked licence.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Imagination retires Caustic Visualizer for Maya

Rendering plugin killed off alongside R2100 and R2500 raytracing cards. Tech survives as SketchUp add-on.

Monday, July 7th, 2014

Autodesk launches Maya LT on Steam

Updated: rental price cut to $30 per month. Annual rental cut from $400 to $240 in Autodesk's own store.

Monday, June 9th, 2014

Videos: set up Pixar-style rigging in Max and Maya

Harry Houghton's tutorials show how to create animation controls similar to Pixar's Presto software.

Monday, May 12th, 2014

[0x1] ships IrayForMaya

New plugin integrates iray renderer natively inside Maya; supports Maya's UVs and shader networks.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014