ok a few of my students have been telling me about SOup for Maya, downloaded it today and I am blown away.
Available here (http://soup-dev.com/). Created by Peter Shipkov it is an amazing procedural toolset for Maya. If you create anything good with it then make sure you give back to the community in the form of a tutorial as there is so much to learn here.
For the animators have a look at the trajectory tool, it allows you to manipulate the animated object either in the curves or with a motion path or by saving keys...no idea how he has done this but wow.
Right I'm off to play some more
