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Code of the Day: Playblast Window

Playblast Window 0.0.2 script by Seamus O’Hearn: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/camera/c/playblast-window Playblast Window 0.0.2is a simple script UI for creating specific playblast options.

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Code of the Day: PAIE

PAIE 1.3.2 script by Jakob Welner: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/paie PAIE 1.3.2 (Python Attribute Import/Export) is a script for exporting animation and pose information to a file, and importing them onto the same (or similar) character.

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Code of the Day: Batch Animation Transfer

Batch Animation Transfer1.0.0 script by daagom: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/batch-animation-transfer Batch Animation Transfer is a script that takes a folder of animations and applies a new rig and copies over the animations (requires that that the names match on the new and old rig).

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Code of the Day: AE Skin Weights Transfer

aeSkinWeightsTransfer1.0.0 script by AndersEgleus: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/aeskinweightstransfer aeSkinWeightsTransferis a script for exporting and importing smooth skin weights in Maya by comparing the world space positions control points.

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Code of the Day: dp SaveScenePlus

dp SaveScenePlus 1.2.2script by diegopri: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/utility-external/misc/c/dp-savesceneplus dp SaveScenePlus 1.2.2is a tool for doing an incremental save.

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Code of the Day: DP Transfer Skeleton Keys

dp Transfer Skeleton Keys 1.0.6script by diegopri: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/character/c/dp-transfer-skeleton-keys dp Transfer Skeleton Keys 1.0.6is a tool for transferring skeletal animation from one skeleton to another. The skeleton needs to have the same hierarchy, but does not require identical naming.

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Code of the Day: SRB-AnimTransfer

SRB–AnimTransfer 0.2.0 script by Suchan Bajracharya: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/srb-animtransfer–2 SRB–AnimTransfer 0.2.0is a tool for transferring animation from one object to another with options for mirroring the keys across different axis for translate, rotate and scale.

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Code of the Day: Animation and Pose Copy

Animation and Pose Copy, Batch Transfer 2.6.5 script by sin3d: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/animation-and-pose-copy-batch-transfer Animation and Pose Copy, Batch Transfer 2.6.5is a tool for saving and loading animation to a text file and applying the saved animation information to custom attributes from one object to another.

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Code of the Day: JP Transfer Anim

JP Transfer Anim 1.5 script by arcsecond: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/c/jptransferanim JP Transfer Anim 1.5 is a quick tool for copying animation or custom attributes from one object to another.

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Book Review: MEL Scripting a Character Rig in Maya

The book MEL Scripting a Character Rig In Maya by Chris Maraffi, is an intersting book on how to automate more of the rig creation (something I am a big fan of). Maraffi has a video describing his tools on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4s6-ahJWvU. This is a good book for those interested in MEL scripting and […]