Animtoolbox is a new addon with a set of tools and workflows for animation in Blender.

TEMP CONTROLS

Bakes your selected bones/controls into a new temporary control rig with new controls which control the original selected controls in the original rig.

Bake Anim to Ctrls – are based on an older addon I wrote called bake anim to empties, however empties are not convinient when working with rig animations, since they are always in object mode and bones are working in pose mode. In this version you can also bake the animation of all selected controls to a new local temporary rig with the controls and the animation baked in world space. Instead of world space you can also use a parent bone based on the original rig bones, and also add child bones for extra control. This is used mostly for space switching technics. After doing all your adjustments in world space, quickly bake back to the original rig and the temporary rig will be removed.

Parent Ctrl on Cursor – Creates a temporary parent bone from cursor – used mostly for temproray pivot. Select your bone controls . position your 3D cursor and press on Parent Ctrl on Cursor. A control rig is created with a bone at the cursor position. All the selected bones are now linked to the bone with ‘Child of’ Constraints. Rotate and move the parent bone to use as a temporary pivot. When using the operator, a new property is created next to the operator. With this property you can turn off and on all the child of constraints.

Bake to Temp IK – Bake your selected controls animation into a temprorary single or multiple IK Setups. Useful for quick editing of raw motion capture data, like fixing the feets to the ground. Cleaning curves in IK mode, and having temporary setups that are not available in your current rig but necessery for a certain action, like having fingers or elbows fixed to a table for example.

Quick Bake Constraints – Quickly bakes the current temp controls back into the original rig and removes the temprorary setup.

Cleanup – If you are not happy from the results you can always quickly remove of the empties or temporary rig setup. Choose relative to remove the setup realted to current selection, or All to remove all setups

Select – Selects all the control bones or the constrained bones from the original rig. When using relative selection it will select the controls or constrained bones related to the current selection.