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

Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap for Maya

Formerly 3ds Max-only real-time UV mapping toolset now available to Maya users, too. It costs under $20.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2014

Videos: see the new features in Maya 2015

Major update adds new FX tools, new skinning system, lots of smaller features. See them all in action here.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2014

Gnomon ships five-hour Maya lighting masterclass

Frederic Durand's Direct Illumination in Maya and mental ray offers an advanced guide to CG lighting tools.

Monday, March 17th, 2014

Softimage died to help Max and Maya, says Autodesk

'Best of the strengths' of the software to transition to sister apps as firm refocuses development efforts.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

Maya 2015 and 3ds Max 2015 sneak peeks leak online?

Brief, and now confirmed not to be official, but you do get to see Bifrost in Maya and render elements in iray.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

How to use 3ds Max on a Mac, or Maya on a tablet

Cory Mogk's step-by-step guide shows you how to run Autodesk software via the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Thursday, February 6th, 2014

IKinema releases IKinema Action 3 for Maya

Update to mocap streaming and data-editing plugin adds automatic fixes for jitter and foot slippage.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

New Autodesk initiative puts Max, Maya in your browser

Updated: Development partner Otoy makes streaming and OctaneCloud technology available free forever.

Monday, December 23rd, 2013