Animation workflow
Smart keying, copy and paste animation, world-space pasting, reset tools, temporary pivots and animation offsets.
Open source animation toolset for Autodesk Maya
TheKeyMachine is a set of tools designed for Maya animators.
These tools are crafted to accelerate and facilitate many of the tasks animators undertake on a daily basis.
TheKeyMachine is under GPL 3.0 license. This site points to a maintained fork, with source code available on GitHub.
Latest release
0.1.53
Published August 27, 2026. Supports Maya 2022 through 2027 on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Rig and scene helpers
Selection sets, follow camera, tracers, snapshot rig tools, custom menus and toolbar controls built for daily Maya work.
Graph Editor tools
Curve editing, tangent helpers, tween and blend sliders, cycle matching and newer global curve controls.
Featured tools
See some of them in action
The same short demonstrations shown inside TheKeyMachine’s tooltips.
01
Nudge
Move targeted keys by a precise frame count, or insert and remove time on selected curves or across the scene.
02
Tracer
Draw motion paths in the viewport to inspect spacing and arcs in world, camera or relative space.
03
Temp Pivot
Drive selected controls as one transform from a temporary pivot you can place and edit freely.
04
Animation Offset
Reposition animated controls with Maya’s manipulators while preserving their motion and timing.