Maya 2008 is now available to download for subscription customers at www.alias.com/support. It will start shipping physically on September 17. New things in this release includes:

• Non-destructive skin editing
• mental ray 3.6 core
• Mesh smooth preview
• Pick walk edge loops
• Booleans, Bevel, Bridge improvements
• Slide edge
• High quality render view enhancements
• Hardware particles with mental ray
• Performance and threading enhancements
• New hardware shader API
• Windows Vista support