Tools
Find the tool by the job.
Grouped by the work you are actually doing — character animation, drawing, mocap, and game delivery. Six tools are free forever; the rest unlock with Pro.
Character Animation
Block, breakdown and polish a performance without leaving your timeline.
The everyday loop: find the pose, place the breakdown, fix the timing, read the arc, add the overlap. These are the tools you touch on every shot, so they are the ones built to disappear into the work.
- Pose Browser Free Pose and animation library with mirroring, rig profiles and studio libraries. Pose Browser Pro unlocks the full engine with Pro
- Breakdown/Tween Pro Pro Interactive tween machine: scrub breakdowns live between keys, with overshoot, favor presets and true Maya breakdown keys.
- Key Toolbelt Free Copy, paste, tween and offset keys from one dockable belt.
- Quantize Free Snap animation to twos, threes and mixed timing with exposure-sheet visualization. Quantize Pro unlocks the full engine with Pro
- Motion Trails Free Editable trails, arc analysis and spacing diagnostics. Motion Trails Pro unlocks the full engine with Pro
- Overlap/Follow-Through Pro Pro Automatic secondary motion: bake spring-simulated overlap onto tails, ears and chains, or offset existing keys with falloff.
- Time Bookmarks Free Shared shot ranges and timeline bookmarks for the whole team.
- Temp Controls Pro Pro Create external translate, rotate and pivot helpers, preview a safe bake, delete helpers and roll back the last bake without changing rig hierarchy.
Drawing & 2D
Plan in drawings, and sell speed on the frames that need it.
Draw straight into the viewport with a real brush engine and a real exposure sheet, then push a single frame into a smear that reads as motion — without ever deforming the rig.
- Grease Pencil Free Viewport drawing, annotation and 2D-style workflows. Grease Pencil Pro unlocks the full engine with Pro
- Smear Pro Pro Production-safe smear frames with live viewport preview.
Motion Capture
Turn noisy capture into a performance that lives on your rig.
Strip the jitter without flattening the acting, lock the feet so the character stops sliding, retarget with proportions handled — then run the curves through a health pass before anyone reviews it.
- Mocap Cleanup + Retarget Pro Clean dirty mocap (despike, Butterworth smooth, key reduction), pin foot contacts, and retarget skeletons onto rig controls.
- Curve Hygiene Pro Pro Scan animation curves for overshoots, Euler risks, dead keys and tangent problems before repairing them safely.
Game & Production
Ship assets and reviews that match the spec the first time.
Hit a real triangle budget, lay out UVs to an actual texel density, and send a review blast that frames what the lead asked for — with the burn-ins already correct.
- Game LOD Pro Pro Analyze, reduce and export game-ready LOD chains.
- ROM UV Tool Pro Smart unwrap, artist-review scoring and production packing.
- Playblast Pro Pro Burn-ins, codec presets and background encoding for review.
ROM Hub
One home for every ROM workflow — inside Maya.
Every ROM tool installs, licenses and updates through ROM Hub — which runs inside Maya, not as a separate application. That is the difference between a folder of scripts you maintain by hand and a workspace that maintains itself.
- Launch every tool from one panel, without leaving Maya
- Install and update modules, verified by hash
- Manage your licence and seats
- Browse marketplace content
- Read the docs without leaving Maya
The catalog
Find the tool by the job it finishes.
Every tool is included with Pro. Pick a shelf, or jump straight to the one you came for.
Drawing
Put a pencil in the viewport. Draw over the shot, build smears, and work in 2D without leaving 3D.
Posing & Animation
Get to the pose faster, then get the breakdowns and the overlap right.
Breakdown/Tween Pro
Interactive tween machine: scrub breakdowns live between keys, with overshoot, favor presets and true Maya breakdown keys.
Open →Overlap/Follow-Through Pro
Automatic secondary motion: bake spring-simulated overlap onto tails, ears and chains, or offset existing keys with falloff.
Open →Pose Browser Pro
Pose and animation library with mirroring, rig profiles and studio libraries.
Open →Temp Controls Pro
Create external translate, rotate and pivot helpers, preview a safe bake, delete helpers and roll back the last bake without changing rig hierarchy.
Open →Timing
Twos, threes, holds, and bookmarks. The tools that decide how the shot feels.
Review & Diagnostics
See the arc, catch the broken curve, and ship the playblast your lead asked for.
Curve Hygiene Pro
Scan animation curves for overshoots, Euler risks, dead keys and tangent problems before repairing them safely.
Open →Motion Trails Pro
Editable trails, arc analysis and spacing diagnostics.
Open →Playblast Pro
Burn-ins, codec presets and background encoding for review.
Open →Pipeline & Optimization
The work either side of animation: UVs, LODs, and mocap that arrives usable.
Game LOD Pro
Analyze, reduce and export game-ready LOD chains.
Open →Mocap Cleanup + Retarget
Clean dirty mocap (despike, Butterworth smooth, key reduction), pin foot contacts, and retarget skeletons onto rig controls.
Open →ROM UV Tool
Smart unwrap, artist-review scoring and production packing.
Open →Why ROM
Tools that behave like one workspace.
A folder of scripts gives you fifteen different ideas about how Maya should work. ROM gives you one.
Install, update, licence, and diagnose every tool from one panel inside Maya.
Every tool reads and writes the same ROM Timeline Framework.
Learn one set of conventions and they hold across every tool.
Brushes, poses and presets install into the tool that uses them.
One entitlement-filtered feed. No hunting for the newest ZIP.
One licence, your seats, 30-day offline grace on Pro and up.
One design system, so a new tool is familiar before you open it.
One install works across versions. The Qt shim handles the rest.
Your next shot is waiting.
Download ROM Starter free, launch it inside Maya, and feel the difference on your very next pose.