Sneak peek: Chaos Scatter in V-Ray for Maya

Chaos's versatile object scattering tool is coming to the Maya edition of the renderer. See a demo here.

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

Autodesk unveils Maya Assist

New AI-powered system for controlling Maya by entering natural-language text prompts launches in beta later this month.

Saturday, April 1st, 2023

Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya v4

Maya hair plugin's Graft Grooms system makes it possible to create entire hair grooms in a few clicks.

Friday, March 31st, 2023

Autodesk releases Maya 2024

Wide-ranging update to the 3D animation tool adds new LookdevX toolset, gel simulation in Bifrost, and native Apple Silicon support.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

Baguette: a powerful free nodal rigging system for Maya

Get Nims Bun's ultra-flexible rigging framework, used in production at Pixomondo, and now available free.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2023

Tutorial: Animating Body Mechanics in Maya

Learn character animation from DreamWorks' Kelly Vawter with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

Insydium's NeXus coming to Blender, Maya and 3ds Max

GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

Autodesk releases Maya 2023.3

3D animation tool to get workflow improvements to Proximity Wrap, the Graph Editor and Time Editor.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Imbalance releases Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 for Maya

Ace real-time physics tool now lets you pose characters simply by pulling them around like puppets.

Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

Free tools: Unreal Live Link 2.1 for Maya is out

Check out the new features in Autodesk and Epic Games' free plugins live-linking Maya and UE5.

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022

Sneak peek: new GPU renderer U-Render for Maya

See the long-awaited Maya edition of the real-time renderer in action on a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU.

Monday, September 26th, 2022

Autodesk launches Maya Creative

Use Maya's core tools for $3/day with this new cut-down edition for freelancers and smaller studios.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

Autodesk ships Maya 2023.2

3D modelling and animation app gets faster viewport animation playback, plus updates to the rigging and Blue Pencil toolsets.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022