Siggraph 2011: Pixar unveils RenderMan for Maya 5.0

Forthcoming update to overhaul raytracing and add 'physically plausible' shading, radiosity cache.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Siggraph 2011: Maya to get native Bullet physics

New Advantage Pack also adds support for the Alembic data interchange format, new Node Editor.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

AAA Studio releases FurryBall 2.1 for Maya

Production-proven GPU-accelerated renderer gains support for real-time DoF, Bokeh effects, motion blur.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

e-on ships Carbon Scatter for Maya and Cinema 4D

Previously Max-only instancing plug-in for creating natural environments goes multi-platform.

Friday, July 8th, 2011

$99 tool adds MotionBuilder functionality to Maya

New student edition of IKinema plug-in enables motion-editing and retargeting inside Maya.

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Lightstorm3D ships L3Deformer bundle for Maya

Price for hotly tipped tools fixed at €149. Windows-only so far, but OS X and Linux versions in the works.

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Lightstorm3D to release new Maya deformers

Check out videos of the upcoming L3Deformer package, for everything from shrink wrapping to high viscosity liquid surfaces.

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Videos: see new features in V-Ray 2.0 for Maya

Check out GPU accleration, the new car paint shader and Ptex workflow in the new version of the renderer, released today.

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Beta test Carbon Scatter for Maya or Cinema 4D

e-on software calls for volunteers to test upcoming ports of its new instancing plug-in.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Chaos Group announces beta of V-Ray for Maya 2.0

Free beta program brings GPU-accelerated rendering to Maya users. Full release later this month.

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Chaos Group reveals V-Ray 2.0 for Maya tour dates

Live in the US or Canada? Come and get a sneak peak at the new renderer later this month.

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Joe Alter to ship corrective sculpting plug-in for Maya

Shave and a Haircut veteran releases free beta of LipService hybrid sculpting/animation tool.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Videos: Autodesk reveals new features in Maya 2012

New version gets improved viewport, node-based render set-up, PhysX, DMM, better fluids, new motion trails.

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011