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

Tutorial: Octane Render for Maya with Christophe Desse

Updated with new video: Watch the Naughty Dog artist's guide to using Otoy's GPU-accelerated engine.

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

Autodesk launches pay-as-you-go pricing for Max, Maya

Cost of rental may appeal more to studios than freelancers, but user feedback has been broadly positive.

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

Gnomon Workshop releases Introduction to Maya 2014

Eric Keller's latest tutorial provides a complete eight-hour video guide to Maya's key toolsets.

Monday, September 9th, 2013

Autodesk releases Maya LT for just $795

But new release is firmly aimed at indie game devs, not general users. Check out what's included in it here.

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

The Leap Motion: control Maya by waving at your screen

Early users say both the Kinect-like controller and its Maya app are potentially powerful, if still frustrating.

Wednesday, August 14th, 2013

Massive Software unveils Massive 6.0, Massive for Maya

Crowd-simulation system to get new UI, support for Bullet physics - and a new dedicated Maya edition.

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

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