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Contour Rig Tools gives Autodesk Maya users a spline-based system for building character rigs. Its volume-aware deformation handles bends and twists while designed to avoid pinching and candy-wrappering. Contour joint chains act as single deformer influences, potentially reducing weight-painting work. Built-in IK adds stretch and anti-IK-pop behavior, while Contour Bones, constraints, Python controls, and Maya-joint export support different production needs. Animating and rendering existing Contour rigs is free; creating or modifying them starts at $40.00 per month when billed annually.
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Mixos Mold
Free plan AndroidiPhoneLinux+3Browser-based organic sculpting across devices — Mixos Mold focuses on browser sculpting, texturing, and mesh export rather than Maya spline rigging.
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Mesh2Motion
Free plan LinuxMacWeb+1Free web and game-engine auto-rigging — Mesh2Motion offers browser-based auto-rigging, an animation library, editing, and packed GLB or FBX export instead of spline rig controls.
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Mesh2Rig
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsBlender baking of complex mesh motion — Mesh2Rig bakes cloth, rigid-body, fracture, soft-body, and shape-key deformations into standard skeletal rigs inside Blender.
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BlenRig
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsFree Blender biped character rigs — BlenRig provides Blender biped auto-rigging, skinning, facial controls, deform cages, and mocap properties rather than Maya spline tools.
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dpAutoRigSystem
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsOpen-source modular Maya auto-rigging — dpAutoRigSystem is a free Python-driven Maya auto-rigger with modular guides, rebuilding, skinning, and transferable weights.
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InstantRig
Free plan WindowsFree 3DS Max cartoon keyframe rigs — InstantRig targets 3DS Max cartoon keyframe animation with auto-rigging, pose tools, overlapping action, and game-engine export.
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Rigify
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+1 - 9
AdvancedSkeleton
Free plan MacWindows - 10
AccuRIG
Free plan Windows - 11
MakeHuman
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 12
Live Link Face
Free plan AndroidiPhone - 13
mGear Framework
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 14
CloudRig
Free plan Extension - 15
Autodesk Flow Studio
Free plan Web - 16
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3ds Max CAT
Free trial Windows - 18
Unity Animation Rigging
Free plan - 19
Auto-Rig Pro
Paid LinuxMacWindows5.8 Visit site - 20
Avastar
Paid LinuxMacWindows5.8 Visit site - 21
Autodesk Maya
Paid MacLinux - 22
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Maya Pulse
Paid LinuxMacWindows - 24
Rapid Rig: Modular
Paid MacWindows
Another product may suit you better if you need Blender, 3DS Max, browser-based work, automatic rigging, mesh-animation baking, or sculpting instead of Maya spline rigging. Contour supports Maya on Windows, Linux, and macOS, but node-locked paid licenses require activation and intermittent internet access, with a seven-day offline grace period. Maya Cached Playback can affect Contour rigs. Compare alternatives by host compatibility, whether they create rigs or prepare animation, import and export formats, scripting needs, and whether their workflow matches character production, game-engine output, or motion editing.
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