Must Have Animator Tools: Pose2Shelf

The Pose2Shelf.mel Script: This script will let you do two simple and insanely useful things for animators: posing and setting many keys on characters. The tool is also great for animators who are doing a lot of animation transfer onto characters because you can define your selections easily:

It has a single super simple UI that lets you: 

1. Save and label the setAttr (pose) commands for all keyable attributes of all selected nodes to your shelf with a single button!
2. Save and label your current selection set on the shelf with the push of a single button.

I use this script all of the time because…

• Not all studios let you bring in GUI plugins and install them on their machines (especially if they are Java-driven).
• This is just a .mel script, so most IT departments do not sneer at you using it.
• You can create selection sets without all the extra nodes the Create —> Selection Set Maya tool makes in the outliner (this is what AnimBot uses to create selections BTW)
• Also, The Create select set doesn’t specifically select nodes like pose2shelf does where you can go into the shelf and revise the .mel.
• Sometimes, I want my own selections and poses outside of what the show has provided, so this is a light solution to making my own shelves.
• You can easily recreate the GUI shelf for additional rigs that are similarly built.

https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/pose-2-shelf-for-maya