Nicholas Kurakin post a look at his QIQ Tools suite of rigging and animation tools for Autodesk Maya that assist with all stages of the pipeline including rigging, animation, scene organization, with the tools even drawing into lighting rendering and assembly.
QIQ Tools have been developed to simplify, speed up and automate the creation of three-dimensional graphics in animation studios, video game companies and private projects
QIQ Tools consists of the Animation Manager, Rig Manager, Pose Manager, Orientation Manager, Name and Light Manager covering all the stages of production. The animation manager will allow you to organize and visualize animations in Maya easily, giving you the ability to switch and visualize clips. The Animation Manager will also sequence the animations directly in Flash setting your game assets up with ease.
Nicholas has put together a video using QIQ Tools through the entire process of rigging, animating and rendering a bear asset for a game which proves to be interesting. To learn more about QIQ Tools for Maya, check the page here.