Scripted Production Tools

Completely MEL driven Level Editor used for creating Ms. Pacman: Maze Madness 2 Levels for all target platforms.  Users are not required to have previous Maya skills to build gameplay.

Studio needed a quick means of creating gameplay, without having to code a full 3d editor. I was brought in as the Maya expert to make this happen.

Creating visually appealing custom rigs doesn't have to be a burden thanks to this intuitive wire creation system. Create and customize curve shapes, then store them in handy collections for reuse on a later project.

Having a reusable library of customizable shapes allows you to to worry more about rigging and less about shaping controllers, making your workflow faster.

Due to free online spongebob games the looking for play turbo subs ever growing requests from producers to create animated GIFs for their Power Point Presentations, GIF Maker was created to eleviate the hastle of format conversion. Now any artist can render a Power Point friendly animation natively out of Maya, without having to understand the external conversion process.

This tool made artists feel as though making a GIF was really no big deal, as the workflow was just as easy as making a Playblast.

An automated skeleton creation tool for bipedal characters.

Having a tool for this task not only speeds up humanoid rig creation, but ensures that naming and joint alignment are consistent.

This tool is a simplified cartoon shader frontend for Maya's Mental Ray renderer.

By creating a custom interface and only exposing a limited set of necessary attributes, artists could create toon rendered backplates without having extensive knowledge of Mental Ray or complex shading networks.

This custom viewer interface was used by artists to previsualize content on the N-Gage device.

Given such a low resolution, it was necessary to quickly judge how scale would affect the final look of an asset. The artist could also render the active view directly into the Toon Renderer detailed here.