Extra time sliders. Each one marks a note's frames and drawings.
Tools / Notes
Notes
Notes and checklists that live outside the scene and go to the people you work with, with drawings made over the shot, frame by frame.
Pipeline Add-on Needs the base package
What it does
Notes and checklists
Write a note with a title, a body and a checklist. Tag it, give it a status and a priority, and link it to the scene, a file, frames and cameras. A tick is signed with who ticked it and when. Everything is saved as you type, outside the scene, so a note never travels inside a file you hand on.
Sent through a shared folder
Point it at a folder everyone can reach, a network drive or a synced folder, and send a note to anyone with an inbox there. New notes arrive on their own and are announced in the viewport. Reply, or send an update as a newer revision. No server and no accounts.
Draw over the shot
Draw over a camera's view with a stylus, using its pressure, tilt and eraser end, or with a mouse: pen, brush, marker, shapes, text, eraser and lasso. The drawing sits on the camera's resolution gate, so it lands on the same spot of the shot in any viewport at any size.
Frame by frame
A drawing holds for the frames you give it, with onion skins either side, and stays showing while you scrub and play. Drawings are kept in the note, so they go wherever it is sent.
Pins and exports
Pin a numbered annotation to a spot of a frame, with an arrow, and turn it into a checklist item with one click. Export the drawn frames as images, playblasted through the camera with the drawing painted over.
Better with Timeline++ and the File Browser
If you also have Timeline++, every timeline marks the selected note's frames and drawings, and a drawing's hold can be dragged there to change the frames it covers. If you have the File Browser, files with notes attached carry a mark. Both gain Notes entries in their right-click menus. This is optional. Everything else on this page works without them.
Honest about what it is not
This is a notes tool, not a production tracker. There is no server, no web page and no sign-in: notes travel as files through a shared folder, anyone who can read that folder can read them, and a note says who wrote it by their login name only. Draw-overs do not show in Maya's own playblasts, which is what Export is for, and a camera needs 2D Pan/Zoom off to be drawn over.
Details
| Category | Pipeline |
|---|---|
| Price | $2, one payment |
| Requires | The base package |
| Works with | Timeline++ and the File Browser, optional |
| Sharing | Any folder everyone can reach. No server, no accounts |
| Drawing | A stylus, with pressure and tilt, or a mouse |
| Maya | 2024 to 2027, Windows |
| Install | Unzip into your Maya modules folder, restart Maya — how to install |
| Scene files | Writes nothing into your scene. Notes are kept on disk |
Two dollars.
Bought once, yours to keep, updates included.
Often bought alongside
Numbered scene versions with comments. Files with notes carry a mark.
Record the timeline through a camera, straight to a GIF.