Imagination unveils Caustic Visualizer for Maya

New plugin based on the PowerVR Brazil SDK provides interactive raytraced previews inside Maya.

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Anzovin Studio demos new Maya breakdown tool

Upcoming tool creates breakdowns based on quaternions, not Euler angles, avoiding gimbal lock.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

Basefount Technology ships Miarmy 1.5 for Maya

Updated with neat new demo video: sub-$1,000 crowd simulator now batch renders jobs much faster.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

Rich Diamant ships Diamant Modeling Tools for Maya

Updated: Blizzard star's retopology and brush-based modelling plugin now out of alpha and ready to buy.

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

Chris Zurbrigg releases Blue Pencil for Maya

New plugin lets you draw over the 3D viewport to rough out animation, sketch layouts or mark up shots.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Holomatix ships SprayTrace mental ray viewer for Maya

Updated: new plugin provides interactive preview of a mental ray scene - now with Mac OS X support.

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Gnomon releases four-DVD Alex Alvarez Maya tutorial

Mammoth new release features nine hours of training on Creating Plants in Maya/Mental Ray.

Friday, July 13th, 2012

Refractive Software releases OctaneRender for Maya

New plugin embeds the GPU-accelerated physically based renderer directly within Maya.

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Joe Alter ships LipService w/LBrush for Maya

Make changes on top of existing rigs and simulations with this innovative facial rigging and sculpting toolset.

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Anzovin Studio ships Onion Skinner for Maya

Get the pose-to-pose control of traditional animation inside Maya with this inexpensive new plugin.

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

Joe Alter demos cool new Maya blendshape tool

Sculpt shapes outside of the rest pose or on top of one another with LipService 5.0's BlendShapes+.

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Peregrine Labs releases Yeti 1.1 for Maya

Promising new fur-and-feathers generation plugin adds support for the Arnold and V-Ray renderers.

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Autodesk announces new features of Maya 2013

Lots of new animation tools, better interoperability with MotionBuilder, and nHair sims - but no iray just yet.

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012