Sneak peek: Maya's new grease pencil tool

Tech preview shows the work-in-progress tool in use to rough out animation directly over the viewport.

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

CoreCG releases MentalCore 1.5 for Maya

Mental ray rendering toolkit gets new Light Select and Diagnostic passes, better architectural light shader.

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Fabric Engine unveils Flora for Maya and Softimage

Powerful vegetation generator built with the newly repriced Creation platform plays nicely in any pipeline.

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

Crytek TD updates open source Maya rigging toolkit

Mark Jackson's Red9 Studio Pack brings big-studio pipeline tools to small studios without R&D teams.

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

Brent Forrest releases BoolieMan rig for Maya

Nifty Boolean-based rig mimics the look and motion of a claymation character, in all its wobbliness.

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Anzovin Studio demos Anzovin Rig Tools for Maya

Updated: Pricing and release date (kind of) set for neat rigging plugin. Pledge your support via IndieGoGo.

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Lightstorm3D updates L3Library for Maya

Free set of utilities gets new Geo Locator tool for constraining objects to surfaces. Works well with vehicles.

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Substance Bonus Tools for Maya 2 now available

Allegorithmic updates its free set of texturing utilities, adding new scripts and links to RenderMan and Arnold.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Chris Zurbrigg ships Charcoal Editor for Maya

New plugin replaces Maya's 'aging script editor'; offers coding tools to bring joy to TDs everywhere.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Autodesk introduces 90-day licences for Max and Maya

Pay $199 and use 3ds Max 2013 or Maya 2013 for three months - but only if you live in the US or Canada.

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Get Mash: 12 free motion graphics nodes for Maya

Try Mainframe North's excellent readymade tools for creating common motion design behaviours.

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Brillstudio releases ShaderMonger 2.0 for Maya

Free shader-management tool now offers automated download and installation from its online library.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

See Fabric Engine running inside Maya and Softimage

Check out a tree generator created with the next-gen tool development platform's new C++ API.

Monday, October 1st, 2012