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Have you been wanting to get up to speed on Python in Maya but keep putting it off?
Did you know that you can use a handy BonusTool called Make Joints Dynamic to create secondary animation by attaching dynamic objects to existing joint chains.
Oldies but goodies - check out this quick demo of the Draw Split and Draw Reduce tools from BonusTools
With the release of Maya 2013 Extension you will now be able to boot Maya into a DX11 display mode. This will allow you to run DX11 (with HLSL shaders) directly in Viewport 2.0. Check out this short demo showing the various types of shader effects that can be created with the new HLSL-based UberShader.
In this series of demonstrations you will see a variety of UV related BonusTools for Maya 2013 that can be used to speed up your UV creation and editing workflow
The Maya 2013 Service Advantage Pack has been announced. It includes several cool new features including support for DirectX11, the File Path Editor and the new Scene Assembly workflow. In this post you can watch the Scene Assembly demo that was shown at Siggraph.
Maya 2013 Service Pack 1 is out and it fixes a very important bug that was affecting a number of BonusTools including the new SlideComponents tool as well as the AutoUnwrapUVs tool.
ATOM, which stands for Animation Transfer Object Model, is a new xml based import/export mechanism for transferring animations and attributes between Maya scenes. It provides a very flexible way of externalizing and transferring base animation, anim layers, driven keys, constraints, static values and more.
This is a continuation of last week's Attribute Editor Customization post. If you're interested in experimenting with the scripts and scene files that were shown in last weeks demonstration movies you can get them here.