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"Welcome to our website. We, a couple of Tech-Artists (and geeks) decided to come up with our vision about having a platform where we can put out our ideas and discuss with everyone as well. We are fans of open-source, learning so much from the community and we would like to give something back. The reason creaturerigs.com was created. We are CharacterTDs mainly working with Autodesk Maya among other softwares. Check out our Tools and Rigs available in the Download section of our website. Go Ahead, check it out, have interesting fun with it and we would love to have your feedback on anything and everything. In the Coming weeks, we will continue to share more ideas, break down Animation Rigs with traditional setups, showcase our own setups and develop/maintain Auto-Rigging tools as well."

Animation Tools - a set of free Maya-tools targeted at reducing the amount of tedious work associated with the setup process of high quality, animatable characters. The Adaptable Facial Setup is capable of driving any humanoid geometry, drawing from an extensive, FACS-based library of facial movement components. The process of fitting the head skeleton to the individual geometry is simplified by offering a standard set of skin weights that accommodates the typical deformation regions of the face. Any skin weights may be cloned topology-independent from one head to another utilizing the Geometry Matching Tool. The Corrective Blendshape Manager offers a useful way to add subtle deformations to a skinned mesh. Blendshape targets can be created and edited, and are computed with respect to the bind pose of the skinned mesh.

free rigs, scripts and character setup / rigging tutorials for maya and xsi.

wild collection of Maya API related links from a user on linkedin.com. some might be useful.

here all links again with a new line char inserted between each link... http://ncca.bmth.ac.uk/gallery/list_by/tag/maya http://www.simplymaya.com/download_pages/ http://www.davidlanier3d.com/Maya-plugins-MEL.htm http://www.oroboro.com/rafael/docserv.php/index/maya/article/maya http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/mayaexporter/ http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/development_api/ http://mayadqskinning.sourceforge.net/ http://www.comet-cartoons.com/3ddocs/mayaAPI/ http://modthemachine.typepad.com/ http://developer.nvidia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1600 http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/ http://www.andynicholas.com/?cat=27 http://www.tek2shoot.com/products/software-plugins/softimage-xsi/unexposed-mental-ray-shaders-v11-32-64bits/ http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch16.html http://blog.gamedeff.com/?p=78 http://www.blitzcode.net/3d_1.shtml#Lightmap_Compiler http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=SkinShader http://knol.google.com/k/koen-samyn/hlsl-per-vertex-lighting-shader/2lijysgth48w1/7#done http://www.alan-warren.com/tag/shader/ http://www.coniserver.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.headus.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=394 http://tamarind.free.fr/noctua/index.php/2010/03/23/a-simple-dependency-graph-library/#more-103 http://www.jb101.co.uk/2008/05/05/fixing-help-in-maya-2008/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gpalem/archive/2008/08/20/how-to-find-the-shading-groups-for-the-given-shape-node-in-maya-api.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gpalem/ http://ludovic.chabant.com/devblog/ http://www.gogototo.com/a-post-about-maya-api-enviroment-setup.html http://dev.mokastudio.tv/taxonomy/term/4/0 http://efreedom.com/Question/1-2097306/Creating-Simple-Hierarchy-Structure-Maya-Using-Mel-Python http://coding4fun.org/?p=99 http://sayinghai.com/blog/?cat=14 http://graphics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~drake/data/articles/ http://www.autodesk.com/us/maya/docs/Maya85/DeveloperResources/Introduction_to_Maya_Python_API.html http://www.scribd.com/login htt