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

Gnomon releases new Maya character rigging DVD

Discover how to create a flexible production-ready rig with Insomniac Games' Axel Stanley-Grossman.

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Phoenix FD for Maya enters beta testing

V-Ray for Maya users can sign on for early access to Chaos Group's formerly Max-only fluid simulator.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

IKinema releases IKinema Action 2 for Maya

Stream motion-capture data directly into Maya for editing and retargeting with the newly rechristened plugin.

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Basefount Technology ships Miarmy 1.2 for Maya

Latest update to crowd-simulation system adds support for Linux and the render engine of your choice.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Autodesk previews nHair simulation system for Maya

There's no guarantee that the tools will actually make it into Maya 2013, but the timing looks suggestive.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Chaos Group releases update to V-Ray for Maya 2.0

Free upgrade adds dedicated new hair material, improvements to GPU-based interactive preview renderer.

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Control Maya or 3ds Max by iPhone with CadRemote

Maide releases free iPhone app for navigating 3D software. Mouse control and sketch tools cost $2.99.

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Mario Baldi creates free FiberMesh to Maya script

Another day, another free tool for exporting ZBrush 4R2b hair to the 3D app of your choice for rendering.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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