Thinkbox Software expands Maya product line-up

Maya versions of the Frost point cloud meshing and XMesh geometry caching systems are on the way.

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

[0x1] to preview IrayForMaya at Siggraph 2013

See Nvidia's iray renderer run natively inside Maya, in much the same way as it does in 3ds Max.

Monday, July 15th, 2013

Mainframe North releases Mash 2.1 for Maya

Updated: Versatile set of tools for motion graphics in Maya get new Flight node for flocking and swarming effects.

Tuesday, July 9th, 2013

Mark Jackson ships Red9 Studio Pack 1.33 for Maya

Crytek TD's free rigging toolset gets new UIs for simplifying mocap data, adding smart noise to animation.

Monday, July 1st, 2013

Fabric Engine unveils Creation: Splice for Maya

Write multi-threaded VFX tools that perform like C++ inside Maya using a simpler, JavaScript-like language.

Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

Joe Alter releases LipService 6.5 for Maya

Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue.

Friday, May 31st, 2013

Sitni Sati ships FumeFX for Maya

Leading gaseous fluid simulator now available for Maya as well as Max. Runs on Windows and Linux.

Monday, May 27th, 2013

Caustic Visualizer 1.1 for Maya adds batch rendering

Real-time raytracing plugin gets option to batch-render animations. Can be set to mimic the look of mental ray, too.

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

AnimSchool releases AnimSchool Picker for Maya

Select and manipulate rig controls or geometry on 3D characters faster with this free picker GUI plugin.

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Autodesk opens app store to Maya, 3ds Max

Buy plugins, libraries and training through Autodesk's commission-free Exchange Apps store.

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Autodesk announces new features of Maya 2014

Watch videos of the new modelling, scene assembly and Paint Effects options and the DirectX 11 viewport.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Maya and Softimage 2014 user guides leak online

Updated: The new feature videos for 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage 2014 are now live on the Autodesk site.

Monday, March 25th, 2013

Sneak peek: Maya's new retopology tools

Watch the new resurfacing workflow, including a new Quad Draw tool like that in digitalRaster's NEX plugin.

Thursday, March 7th, 2013