Tools specifically designed to make animating tasks within Maya more intuitive and to provide access to traditional animation concepts.
Scratchpad
Scratchpad is a sketching tool within Maya. It allows pressure sensitive strokes using a Wacom tablet. It has onion skinning viewing of previous and following frames. It has a persistent background layer.
Coming soon...
Graph Editor Redux
Graph Editor Redux is a redesign of Maya's curve editor. Not only does it reorganize the classic graph editor functions, it provides new tools that many animators have found extremely helpful in massaging animation performances.
See included PDF documentation for installation and description of features. Graph Editor Redux and Digital Pose Test require the full PyQt4 package. Installation for Maya2012 is now different than for previous versions. It now installs (easily) via Maya's module feature. See the PDF for exact instructions.
Note: Launching Redux is slightly different for Maya2012. Maya2012 has added a new mode called "Suite" which removes some of the buttons from the Classic View. To switch between Suite, Classic and Redux go to the "View/Toolbar Mode" menu of the Graph Editor toolbar.
Plugin versions for Maya 8.5, 2008, 2010_x64, 2011_x64, 2012_x64 included.
DPT - Digital Pose Test
X Sheet timing tool.
*** updated January 2012 *** > Audio is now supported > Left button bar access to Preferences and Quick Help > Updated UI
> bug fix to recognize non-keyable channels ****************************