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*All scripts are created by their respected artists.
Please follow the link to the download page and read their user agreements.



AWESOME LIGHTS!



By
Darren Randall
Boon Cotter
Ruben Moragon



Awesome Lights! Viewport rendering set-up tool used to animate with & render out play-blasts.


FREE

STUDIO LIBRARY



By Kurt Rathjen



A perfect solution to save your poses with images. Mouth shapes, fingers, body poses, and save animation clips.


FREE

KEYFRAME MP & PRO



By Zurbrigg



Great video player for animators. Frame by frame, drawovers, link external videos with Maya's timeline, plugins, and much more!

Pro paid version also available.


FREE

ANIM SNAP



By J Croke



Bakes an object to follow another. Eliminates the use of constraints by baking the motion.


FREE

NP SCALE LOCAL CURVE



By Nicolas Prothais



A great tool for scaling dense mocap keys from the graph editor. Scale pivot from either end or pin the ends and scale the center curve.


FREE

OA SMOOTH KEYS - 1



By TopSoilArts



Select jittery mocap keys and smooth the curve.


FREE

KTL SMOOTH KEY - 2



By Indy Rigger



Auto Smooth Keyframe for Motion Capture.


FREE

KEYFRAME REDUCER



By Robert Joosten



Reduce the number of keyframes while maintaining the curve path.


FREE

SMEAR FRAME



By Keith Osborn



Create a smear frame by stretching the character's mesh via a plane vertices with soft-select.


FREE

UNIVERSAL FK/IK MATCHING - 1



By Monika Gelbmann



Will automatically match between FK and IK. Quickly matches FK/IK poses from one frame to the next.


FREE

FK/IK MATCHER - 2



By Khaled Hussein



Switch between FK and IK with multiple characters or limbs in one scene. Free & Paid version available.


FREE

BF TRAIL



By Dmitrii Kolpakov



Creates a motion trail on objects, vertices, polygons, or edges. Updates curve automatically.​


FREE

BH STAGGER KEYS



By Brian Horgan



Allows for offsetting multiple objects/keys in timing.​


FREE

TWEEN MACHINE



By Alex Widener
Justin S Barrett



The simplest way to create a breakdown pose in Maya. Favor your first or second pose by blending a percentage.


FREE

CAMERA SHAKER



By Skiena



Adds random shake to a camera for an easy effect. Many attributes to get a handheld or quake feel.


FREE

arSHAKE



By Skiena



Useful for creating shaking, vibrating or wobbling animation on an object over a time range.


FREE

bh_SPEED GUI



By Brian Horgan



Slow the speed of your animation without affecting Maya's FPS set rate. Great for viewing your animation slower or quicker in your viewport with a quick speed slider.​


FREE

LOCATOR ANIM TRANSFER



By DEX3D



The script stores translates and rotates animation in locator and transfers it back to rig.


FREE

bh_WAVE IT



By Brian Horgan



Speeds up the process of blocking in simple wave motion for things like tails, capes and anything else that might need it.​


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BRS DELAY SYSTEM



By DEX3D



Maya overlapping script. Friendly for Animators.


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GHOSTING



By Vincent



Creates smear lines from your animated model's mesh.​


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QUICK RETIME



By Graciliano Camargo



Quickly retime keyframes by typing number of frames to shift. Small easy to use tool to nudge keys or a group of keys from the timeline.


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MIXAMO



By Adobe



Large mocap library to choose from.

Compatible with Maya's HIK system. FBX skeleton downloads. Upload your model for quick rigging and apply their mocap to it.



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OVERLAPPER



By Dmitrii Kolpakov



A quick way to add overlap to hair, tails, antennas, or just about anything you'd like.​


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rePARENT PRO v.



By Dmitrii Kolpakov



Tool for transfering animation from control to locator for polishing animation. Great to create overlap on head and tails...etc.


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bh LOCAL NUDGE



By Brian Horgan



Nudge trans/rotate controllers in local space as well as screen space. Used to make small precised adjustments without needed to switch between rot/trans tools.​


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bh ANIM TOOLS



By Brian Horgan



It streamlines the process of using aim targets to control rotation animation and applying the animation back to the controls.​


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TPT TRACKER



By Tommaso Pavon



Track your arcs! Helps you analyze your animations by creating spheres on your selected controls and easily track the motions with ghosting trail abilities on those spheres.


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MG PICKER



By Miguel Winfield



Professional picker tool for full body and facial picker designing. No scripting knowledge required. Customize or use templates.


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ABX PICKER



By J Adam Burke



Entry level picker at a low price.

For Maya 2011+


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ANIMBOT



By Alan Camilo



Paid license to one of the industry widely used animation plugins. Tons of tools in one for animators.


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CYCLER



By Dmitrii Kolpkov



Works only for Advanced Skeleton, mGear, Bazhutkin's rigs. Creates adjustable biped walk animation. Can walk forward in world space and along a curve path.


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RIGGING TOOLS



*All scripts are created by their respected artists.
Please follow the link to the download page and read their user agreements.



CONTROL CURVE TOOL



By Jennifer Conley





Pre-made control curves to speedup your rigging workflow.


FREE

KTL CONTROLLER TOOLS



By Indy Rigger





Create controllers for rigs and group them.


FREE

KTL CUSTOM COLOR



By Indy Rigger





Change the color of multiple rig controls in one click. Can also change the color of your objects wireframe.


FREE

KTL BLENDSHAPE CTRL



By Indy Rigger





Easy to create facial control sliders and connect them to blendshapes in one tool.


FREE

JOINT ORIENT



By Michael Comet





Tweak the joints orientations in one click or customize the angle of rotation with a button.


FREE

GUI GENERATOR



By Vijay Lakshmanan





Automatically creates slider controls or boxes to use as facial controls.


FREE

AB SYM MESH



By Crumbly





For older version of Maya that don't have built in mirror blendshape (Shape Editor). This will mirror your blendshapes.


FREE

SQUASH/STRETCH MAKER



By Khaled Hussein





Make a strong squash and stretch system in a few seconds with this tool.


FREE

ngSKIN TOOL



By Viktoras Makauskas





A skinning plugin for Autodesk Maya, introducing new concepts to character skinning such as layers, any-pose-mirroring, enhanced paint brushes, true smoothing, and more.


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ADVANCED SKELETON



By Oyvind Nostdal





An auto-rigging solution. Fully customizable with facial rigging included. Bend bones and engine export capabilities.


FREE

RAPID RIG



By Dustin Nelson





Setup a bi-pedal character skeleton in minutes ready for in-game. Has stretchy joints or creates single joint hierarchies for engine export.


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