CoreCG ships MentalCore rendering plugin for Maya

Updated: shading and lighting tool now officially shipping and updated for improved Maya Hair support.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Anzovin Studio develops Maya onion skinning plugin

Sign up now to beta test the new animation tool, due for a commercial release next month.

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Maide Control: control Maya or 3ds Max via your iPad

Clever app lets users to navigate 3D scenes or apply modelling commands via the touch screen.

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

StretchMesh for Maya to be made open source

Kickstand to release source code for cult deformation plugin, but calls for funds to secure its future support.

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

KeyShot to get native support for 3ds Max, Maya

New plugins will let easy-to-use real-time renderer to play nicely with DCC software, not just CAD apps.

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti: new fur plugin for Maya

Powerful new tool offers topology and texture UV-independent grooming for use in VFX pipelines.

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 1.3 for Maya

New crowd simulation system gets IK and Look At behaviours. Price now fixed at $4,999.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Q&A: Maya effects expert Wayne Hollingsworth

Fresh from his work on Thor, the veteran technical director provides his advice for aspiring effects artists.

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Joe Alter adds 3D paint tools to LipService for Maya

Current beta of the promising facial sculpting and animation plug-in gains intuitive 3D painting toolset.

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Autodesk announces three free Max and Maya webinars

Sign up for online workshops on pre-viz, games character creation and creative visualisation.

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Nadav Brill releases free shader manager for Maya

Use ShaderMonger to preview and back up custom shader libraries, then share them on its website.

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Miarmy Express: free crowd simulation for Maya?

New plug-in offers fuzzy logic-driven AI, physics engine and RIB output. Can anyone tell us if it works?

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

DNA Research cuts price of 3Delight for Maya

Version 6 of the RenderMan-compliant renderer drops the cost of a quad-core licence to just $400.

Thursday, September 1st, 2011