PSOFT Pencil+ 4 for Maya is a non-photorealistic rendering plugin which can reproduce the appearance of pen-and-ink and color pencils drawings as well as animation cels.

– Materials with high level of expressiveness
– Fast and beautiful line drawing
– Powerful render elements and file output functionality

This plugin makes it possible to reproduce in 3D the distinctive art style seen in Japanese animation and illustrations. It is also effective for creating non-photorealistic looks made from simple planes and lines and which are useful for creating simplified illustration drawings to convey ideas.

Changes for 4.2.4
[New Features]
Adds compatibility with Maya 2026.
[Modifications]
Improved operational safety when rendering is cancelled.
Clicking a line or render element in the Pencil+ 4 Line Window’s list now also selects the corresponding node.
Update the render elements list when [New Scene] or [Open Scene] is executed.
When using the Japanese version of Windows with UTF-8 mode, the menu is now displayed in English.
When outputting to PLD and there are duplicated PencilLine node names, if a namespace is set to a node, the namespace will be included in the name of the output file.
Display a warning when rendering with the Pencil+ 4 Line Renderer if the file output folder does not exist.
Perform mesh access using a single thread.
Fixed a problem where the material opacity changed when rendering without a license.
Fixed a problem where batch rendering could stop in Maya 2025 if a map path contained non-ASCII characters.
Fixed a problem where Selected Edges were not being drawn in some cases.
In the Curve UI, curves are now correctly inverted when 2 points have the same X coordinate.
Removed an old workaround for an error caused by Mental Ray.
Fixed minor problems related to the attribute editor display.