https://numerion-software.com/solutions/products/carbon-for-maya

Here's a short 2 min overview of the Carbon Cloth for Maya V2 (released 2020) - with many thanks to Simon Legrand for the voiceover and script - enjoy...

Arnold for Maya 5.5.1 (2024-2026) Win

https://www.autodesk.com/products/arnold/overview

Autodesk Arnold is a powerful, high-quality rendering software designed for 3D animation, visual effects, and design visualization. As an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer, Arnold is renowned for its ability to produce stunning, photorealistic images with predictable and efficient workflows. It is widely used in the film, television, and gaming industries, trusted by leading studios for its reliability and scalability in handling complex scenes and large datasets.  Arnold’s robust feature set includes support for volumetric rendering, subsurface scattering, and hair and fur, making it versatile for a wide range of creative projects. Its intuitive interface and seamless integration with popular 3D applications like Maya, 3ds Max, and Cinema 4D streamline the rendering process, allowing artists to focus on creativity rather than technical hurdles. Additionally, Arnold’s adaptive sampling and efficient memory management ensure faster rendering times without compromising quality.  With its node-based material editor and extensive shader library, Arnold empowers artists to achieve precise control over lighting, textures, and materials. Whether you’re creating cinematic visuals or intricate product designs, Autodesk Arnold delivers the tools and performance needed to bring your creative vision to life with unparalleled realism and detail.

https://zurbrigg.com/charcoal-editor-2

Charcoal Editor 2 is a plugin for Autodesk Maya designed to replace the aging script editor. Fully integrated into Maya using Qt and the Maya API, Charcoal Editor 2 brings many of the advanced features found in leading IDEs directly into Maya. Created to meet the production needs of Maya TDs and tools developers, Charcoal Editor 2 is powerful, flexible and familiar. It includes the major functionality of Maya's native script editor and adds an extensive set of features that professional developers depend on.

Pencil+ 4.2.3 (Maya 2020-2025) [Win]

PSOFT Pencil+ RenderApp: Elevate Your 3D Art with Stylized Precision

In the dynamic realm of 3D design and animation, the demand for captivating non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) continues to surge, driven by industries like anime, gaming, and advertising. PSOFT’s Pencil+ RenderApp emerges as a dedicated solution, empowering artists to transform 3D models into striking cel-shaded illustrations, intricate line art, and hand-drawn masterpieces with unmatched efficiency. Designed for both seasoned professionals and aspiring creators, this standalone rendering tool bridges the gap between technical complexity and artistic vision, offering a streamlined workflow to achieve anime-inspired visuals, comic book aesthetics, or any stylized project.

Pux 3D Hard Mesh v2.37 for Maya 2019 - 2024

https://www.hard-mesh.com/
Ideal for Designers, Vfx and Game companies, expert users and Advertising agencies, as well as any hard surface modeller.
Its primary application is to create complex objects starting from simple shapes, but it can also be used to add details to
any hard surface model, even tassellated nurbs from C.A.D.!

https://peregrinelabs.com/products/yeti

Easily create feathers via a flexible and optimized generator that integrates into the Yeti graph for instancing, look development and deformation.

Arnold for Maya 5.4.8 (2023-2025) [Win]

https://www.autodesk.com/products/arnold/overview

Autodesk Arnold is a powerful, high-quality rendering software designed for 3D animation, visual effects, and design visualization. As an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer, Arnold is renowned for its ability to produce stunning, photorealistic images with predictable and efficient workflows. It is widely used in the film, television, and gaming industries, trusted by leading studios for its reliability and scalability in handling complex scenes and large datasets.  Arnold’s robust feature set includes support for volumetric rendering, subsurface scattering, and hair and fur, making it versatile for a wide range of creative projects. Its intuitive interface and seamless integration with popular 3D applications like Maya, 3ds Max, and Cinema 4D streamline the rendering process, allowing artists to focus on creativity rather than technical hurdles. Additionally, Arnold’s adaptive sampling and efficient memory management ensure faster rendering times without compromising quality.  With its node-based material editor and extensive shader library, Arnold empowers artists to achieve precise control over lighting, textures, and materials. Whether you’re creating cinematic visuals or intricate product designs, Autodesk Arnold delivers the tools and performance needed to bring your creative vision to life with unparalleled realism and detail.

iCube R&D - VRayScatter for Maya v4.608

VRayScatter for Maya is a plug-in for V-Ray rendering system. With this plug-in, it is possible to create complicated scenes with a huge amount of objects easy and quickly. 

Usually scenes in Maya with a great amount of even identical objects take a lot of space on HDD, consumes time for loading, and very hard to work with. VRayScatter for Maya solves these problems. A scene containing 500 000 identical objects created with Maya 2008 occupies 1400Mb of HDD space. Now, if it is created with VRayScatter and still containing the same 500 000 objects take just 250Kb.