Playblast/Reference Viewer for Maya

Chris Zurbrigg, who also brought you Blue Pencil for Maya, has now created a great little tool that helps speed up the reference and playblast experience in Maya! Should be available soon.

Playblast/Reference Viewer for Maya from Chris Zurbrigg on Vimeo.

Head over to his site to check out more goodies!

I am downloading soon!
Enjoy!
JP

Fun with Color and Maya

A quick post to send you all over to get some color in your timeline tics for maya. Head on over to my bud Phillip Hall's blog. He wrote a quick post about how to change your keys to different colors in maya, complete with a Mel Script.

Phillip Hall 

Check out the rest of his blog...great stuff all around.

Enjoy!

JP

More Helpful Mel Scripts

I found this site a little while ago and have been keeping up with it for a few months now. There are some good scripts on here to help animators out and Jay Grenier is also an animator that does lots of rigging. One that might help is: A script that zeros out all keyable attributes. This may come in handy while in blocking and going from one pose to the next since it is a technique of some to zero out all keys when moving onto the next pose (in blocking) to help keep your curves clean and it can help with things like gimbal. Lots of studios have this script built in to their software and I know it comes in handy.

script swell

So check in from time to time because he updates regularly. There are some scripts for animators to help and some more advanced for others that like scripting. So look around and enjoy.

JP