Maya-Unreal Livelink Animation Transfer Tool
This is a tool I developed for the Previs team of our 2023 (expected release date) Brigham Young University (BYU) Student Film. The tool was intended for Animators using Livelink from Maya to stream animations to Unreal. With the press of a button, all the animations import automatically from Maya to Unreal. This was also my very first time using the Unreal Python API to create a Utility Tool that extended to other platforms. In this case, within my Utility Tool Menu, the user can select the Open Maya scene Livelink-ed to Unreal, select an animated rig from that scene in Maya, and import both the Rig and the Animation into Unreal or just the Animation if the Skeleton already exists in Unreal. It's a little rough, but it was fun to scroll through all the Unreal and Maya related forums for research. It was in these nights where I also made the unfortunate discovery that the Unreal Python API Documentation pages have absolutely no dark-mode, so I spent most of my time spent staring at a blinding-white screen in the dark animation labs.