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

Autodesk adds MEL scripting, OBJ export to Maya LT

Latest extension suddenly makes the 'lite' version of Maya for games artists a much more powerful proposition.

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

Free tool of the day: Michał Gamrat's mgNodes for Maya

Control deformations and particles with this CUDA-based tool to scatter and manipulate points on a mesh.

Monday, December 2nd, 2013

Brillstudio releases StockCG 1.5 for Maya

Updated: Browse stock content directly inside Maya via former MPC TD's new cloud-based marketplace.

Friday, November 29th, 2013

Watch Jeremy Birn's Lighting & Rendering in Maya for free

Watch the Pixar TD's entire 2008 training DVD on his website, along with downloadable project files.

Friday, November 22nd, 2013

Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity

Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

nEyeMaker for Maya creates ultra-customisable eyeballs

Lighting artist Luca Fiorentini's free, fully procedural eye features appearance controls galore. Neat.

Monday, October 28th, 2013

Autodesk lifts geometry export cap from Maya LT

If you're exporting to Unity, at least. For FBX files, the new Extension release ups the limit to 65,000 polys.

Thursday, October 24th, 2013

Animation Mentor releases free Maya character rig

Teach yourself the fundamentals of character work with the animation school's toon-style Stewart rig.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013