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
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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
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