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2026-09-27 🔧 FuryNotesv1.4.2 Everything since 1.3.0, the last version on this page: 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 were built one after another and arrive here together. A numbered list keeps its own count. You have a list of five and want one more after the second. Enter used to give you a second "3.", and every number below it had to be fixed by hand. Now the new item is 3, and the old 3, 4 and 5 become 4, 5 and 6 by themselves. Taking an item out works the same way. Delete it, backspace it away, cut it with Ctrl+X or clear several lines at once, and the numbers below close up. A list that starts at 5 still starts at 5. A nested list keeps its own count, and a blank line or plain text ends the list. One Ctrl+Z takes back the new line and the renumbering together. Only the digits change, so the cursor stays where it was. For now this happens from the keyboard. Pasting or cutting through the right-click menu and dragging text with the mouse leave the numbers alone. The manual opens from the program: F1. F1, or the book button on the toolbar between Settings and About, opens the user manual in your browser, in the language of the interface. It is now two pages, English and Russian, built from pictures of the program itself. The numbers on each picture point at the parts, and the list under it says what they do. There is a search box too. The manual sits in the "manual" folder next to FuryNotes.exe, so you can open it or send it on without the program. A note opens where you left it. Leave a note half-read, look at another one, come back, and you are on the same line instead of at the end. Anything you had selected is still selected. FuryNotes remembers the place for every note you open while it is running. Folders from elsewhere, right in the tree. Documents that live in someone else's folder, such as a project's papers or a shared drive, can now go on the tree without being copied in. Right-click the tree, choose "Connect an external folder…", give it a name, and its .md and .txt files appear as one list you can read and edit in place. FuryNotes writes nothing into that folder. "What to show from this folder…" lists everything in it with a tick box, so you can clear them all and tick the few you need. A single unwanted file is quicker to drop from the tree with "Hide from this folder". Anything that lands in the folder later shows up by itself. Ctrl+F finds these documents too, and earlier copies of their text are kept in your own notes folder. Read the folder again: F5. Drop a .md or .txt file into the notes folder from Explorer, from a download or from another program, and the ring button at the end of the top row (or F5) brings it into the tree. It also re-reads the open note if its text was changed from outside. Whenever you switch back to FuryNotes from another program, the tree is re-read by itself. The date comes with the time, and with a button. Ctrl+Shift+D now writes the date and the time, to the second: 2026-09-27 14:05:31. Two entries made on the same day no longer look like one. The calendar button at the end of the second toolbar row does the same thing with the mouse. 2026-09-25 ⚙️ BackDropv1.7 A release about the small things that eat time every day, and a new user manual. The pointer in the picture. "Capture the mouse pointer" - on the Capture tab of Settings and in the tray menu. The pointer goes into the picture where it stood, in all five kinds of capture. Off to begin with. Favorite folders in the save window. Star a folder and it moves up into Favorites, where no new folder will push it out. "Remove from the list", the Delete key or a right-click drops a line; the folder on the disk stays put. Fifty folders are remembered instead of thirty, shared by both lists. A favorite on a drive that is not plugged in is shown greyed out. Searching the folders. A search field above the list keeps only the folders whose path has every word you type, in any order. You can type right on the list. The first Esc clears the search, the second closes the window. The save window remembers its size, and which list the last picture went into. The eye brings the cover back over the whole screen. It used to lead to the ordinary window, which then had to be arranged again. The choice is on the Toolbar tab, "What the eye brings back". F10 and Esc in see-through mode do the same. A restart in one click. "Restart BackDrop" in the tray menu, and a "Restart now" button under the language choice. A new user manual. Two pages, English and Russian, window pictures with a callout on every button, and a search. It opens on F1, from the tray menu and with the "User manual" button in the ordinary window, and lives in the manual folder beside the program. Checked against the program line by line. Fixed. The Windows 11 taskbar no longer turns darker in see-through mode. A text caption lands exactly the size it was in the box. Colour names and the panel place picker are translated into Russian. Turning on autostart from the tray no longer announces that it worked. 2026-09-17 🎬 Frames Commanderv1.20 The headline of version 1.20: sound you can see, and notes you can leave right on the frame. A waveform runs over the picture, an external track can be attached to a silent playblast, and captions on the frame live as objects you can edit at any time. Waveform over the frame A strip with the sound at the edge of the picture: the playhead runs along it, and hits and syllables are visible at a glance. The wheel zooms into the part you need and sets the In/Out segment, and the middle button drags the zoomed piece left and right. Separate audio track WAV, MP3 and other files instead of the embedded sound: attach a voice-over or music to a silent playblast without a video editor, with a frame offset. The track is saved in the project and goes into exports. Text on the frame — a new text editor A caption lives on its frame as an object: fonts with live preview, ready-made and custom styles, outline, backing, shadow, text in a frame that fits its own size, and a Make it readable button that picks the look from the frame underneath. A caption stays editable at any time — even a week later. Curve Speed got friendlier The wheel zooms into a part of the curve, Ctrl+wheel stretches the speed scale, the middle button pans the graph. The Zoom sets In/Out box ties the zoom to the segment when you want it. A key on the playhead line can now be selected, moved and deleted. Playlist order Reorder files by dragging and sort them by name — the review queue and the sequence come together in seconds. Also in this release Proper arrows on drop-downs and number fields, readable tooltips, buttons that keep their shape, Maya tools verified in every Maya 2019–2026, and an updated interactive manual in English and Russian. The update is recommended for all users of version 1.19. 2026-09-14 🎬 Frames Commanderv1.19 Version 1.19 grew out of feedback from 1.18 users. The headline feature is viewing several clips as one: select shots in the playlist and review the edit and the cuts between them, just like in RV — all the way to exporting the sequence as a single file. Alongside it come scrub audio for lip-sync, hotkeys for every drawing tool, settings that no longer reset, and a new visual HTML user manual. Clips as one sequence — like in RV Check the edit without assembling it in a video editor. Select clips in the playlist with Ctrl or Shift and press the As one sequence button at the bottom of the playlist. With fewer than two selected, the whole playlist goes in, in playlist order. One timeline for the whole sequence: cuts show as yellow ticks, frame numbers run straight through, and the current clip's name appears right on the frame (the N button). Shift+→ and Shift+← jump to the next and previous cut. Playback, Loop, In/Out points, scrubbing and scrub audio all work across cuts. Clips can differ: another resolution is letterboxed, a clip without sound plays silence, and variable-frame-rate screencasts stay in sync. A clip with a different fps is conformed to the sequence — the program warns you. Drawings and bookmarks are remembered per clip and its own frame: reorder the clips or open a clip on its own — the annotations stay in place. The sequence is saved into the .fcmd project with the position and segment. If a clip has gone missing from disk, the sequence is rebuilt from the rest. The sequence runs in the Normal mode; Split, 2x2 and other modes close it. Turn the button off and the clip under the playhead stays in the player, on the same frame. Exporting a sequence as one file Send the edit for review as a single video, not a pile of files. The regular Export (Ctrl+E) in sequence mode renders the In/Out segment across every cut into one MP4 with the sequence audio. The frames are exactly what the player shows, at the first clip's resolution. A JPEG sequence is numbered by sequence frames. Cancel stops the export and deletes the unfinished file. Scrub audio for lip-sync Hear a frame's sound when you move through the video by hand. The sound-wave button next to the volume, or Shift+S: every frame step plays a short slice of that frame's audio. It sounds when stepping with the arrows and dragging on the timeline or right on the frame; normal playback, jumps and bookmark navigation stay as before. Right-click the button to choose the slice length: 1, 2 or 3 frames. Works in Normal, Split and 2x2 modes (the active panel is voiced); the switch is shared and remembered. Off by default. Hotkeys for drawing Annotate without trips to the toolbar. 1–8 — pencil, vanishing ink, line, arrow, rectangle, circle, triangle, text. A digit turns drawing on by itself. "-" and "=" — line width or font size. Delete clears the frame's annotation immediately, without a prompt; Shift+Delete clears all frames, with confirmation. Both can be undone with Ctrl+Z. Button tooltips show the current keys; every key can be reassigned on the Hotkeys tab. Stability and convenience Settings no longer reset. The settings file moved to the user profile folder (%APPDATA%\FramesCommander): it is always writable, even when the program sits in Program Files, and a new version unpacked in place of the old one picks up your hotkeys. Old settings migrate automatically on first launch. A failed read no longer wipes the settings. Per-file bookmarks, just like drawings. Come back to a file in the playlist — its bookmarks are where you left them. Undoing Clear All works again: annotation cleared from every frame comes back with Ctrl+Z. Undo doesn't mix files up: after switching files, the previous file's undo steps are no longer applied to the new one. A new manual. An interactive HTML guide with annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, text search and sections for every mode. The Russian edition is ready; the English one is in progress. The update is recommended for all users of version 1.18.
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EOV Sound Panel interface EOV Sound Panel interface
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EOV Sound Panel

Your everyday Windows sound and microphone settings in one compact window, right in the tray by the clock. Microphone and output with live meters, volume in decibels, auto gain off with one switch, a volume mixer across all devices, hotkeys and a walkie-talkie mode. Free, no installation, Russian and English.

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EOV Sound Panel EOV Sound Panel New
EOV Sound Panel
Your everyday Windows sound and microphone settings in one compact window, right in the tray by the clock. Microphone and output with live meters, volume in decibels, auto gain off with one switch, a volume mixer across all devices, hotkeys and a walkie-talkie mode. Free, no installation, Russian and English.
v1.1.0 Windows 44 Mb  •  2026-09-27
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IconSaver New
IconSaver
A KVM switch or a sleeping monitor every now and then piles your desktop icons into a heap. IconSaver snapshots the layout by itself, saves nothing while your usual monitors aren't all there, and puts the icons back with one click. Free, no installer.
v1.0.0 Windows 29 Mb  •  2026-09-27
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MP Rollout Shelf New
MP Rollout Shelf
A narrow shelf of labelled buttons beside the viewport, grouped into collapsible rollouts, with its own set per project, floating or docked to Maya. Plus your project folders and recent files one click away. Free, MIT, open source. Maya 2019–2026.
v2.0.1 Windows Maya 2019+ 0.32 Mb  •  2026-09-26
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Wavebar-Phonogramm New
Wavebar-Phonogramm
Wavebar-Phonogramm is a free panel for Maya: a big, readable waveform above the time slider, up to eight tracks, and sound editing without leaving the scene. Scrub syllable by syllable for lip-sync, cut and slide dialogue, fade and cross-fade, ride volume and balance with curves, and make a playblast with sound in one click. Free, MIT, open source. Maya 2019–2026.
v1.8.0 Windows Maya 2019+ 5.7 Mb  •  2026-09-19
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Animation Loader Limited New
Animation Loader Limited
Animation Loader Limited is a script for working with a library of FBX animations in Maya. It loads clips into the scene one after another along the timeline, writes them back out to files, keeps several libraries at once, helps you add new animations to them, and watches over file versions — almost like Perforce, only there is nothing to set up. The scene itself records which clip covers which frames and which file it came from. Free, MIT, shipped as source. Nothing but Maya required.
v1.0.0 Windows Maya 2019+ 1.3 Mb  •  2026-09-01
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Hotkey Navigator
Hotkey Navigator
Windows never shows which key combinations are already taken, or by which program. Hotkey Navigator probes nearly fifteen hundred combinations in under a second and shows the result as a table and as a keyboard map: what is taken, by what exactly, and what is left free.
v1.0.0 Windows 48 Mb  •  2026-08-22
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BackDrop Updated
BackDrop
BackDrop hides your desktop behind a plain colour or a picture while you stream, record a lesson or give a presentation, so icons, documents and personal folders never reach your viewers. Draw over the cover like on a classroom board, or right over any running program - no screenshot needed.
v1.7 Windows 96 Mb  •  2026-09-25
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Scene_Manager
Scene_Manager
Scene Manager is a visual library for your 3D models with a version history: a card with a preview for every asset, instead of a folder full of final_v2_fix_new.mb.
v1.3 Windows Maya 2019+ 50 Mb  •  2026-08-01
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MayaMerge
MayaMerge
MayaMerge lets you open any file (.mb/.ma/.fbx/.obj), pick exactly the objects you need from a handy list, and bring only those into your current scene — with no junk.
v1.1 Windows Maya 2019+ 50 Mb  •  2026-07-24
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FuryNotes Updated
FuryNotes
A fast, distraction-free notepad for Windows with one breakthrough idea: there is nothing to save and nowhere to lose. Every note becomes a real file the moment you start typing and saves itself automatically — and earlier versions of the text are kept aside, for when you delete something you wanted.
v1.4.2 Windows 48 Mb  •  2026-09-27
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Quick Text Drop
Quick Text Drop
Quick Text Drop is a utility for instantly saving clipboard text to a file. Press Ctrl+C — and the text is automatically saved as TXT or DOCX with a timestamp.
v1.1 Windows 50 Mb  •  2026-05-17
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Maya Compositoon Grids
Maya Compositoon Grids
A free composition grids tool for Autodesk Maya that helps artists frame shots using classic composition rules.
v1.2 Windows Maya 2019+ 100 Kb  •  2026-05-17
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Frames Commander Updated
Frames Commander
Frames Commander is a specialized video player designed for animators and VFX artists who need precise frame-by-frame control over their references. Free, portable, no installation required.
v1.20 Windows Maya 2019+ 160 Mb  •  2026-09-17
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RoadMapper
RoadMapper
Visual timeline planner for teams. Create tracks for team members, drag tasks across dates, and see your entire project at a glance. Free desktop app for Windows — no account required.
v2.3.1 Windows 300 Mb  •  2026-07-26
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Year Sprint
Year Sprint
YearSprint turns abstract time into a visual picture. Each passed day becomes a coloured cell in a 365-day grid, creating a gradient from red to green — your whole year at a glance.
v1.0 Windows 46 MB  •  2026-04-22
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Сamera Shake Tool
Сamera Shake Tool
Camera Shake Tool for Maya 2019–2026 generates realistic camera shake based on any animated object's movement. Perfect for adding that hand-held feel or impact vibrations to your shots.
v2.1 Windows Maya 2019+ 1.5 MB  •  2026-04-11
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Free Motion Trail 1.4 Public Beta
Free Motion Trail 1.4 Public Beta
EU FreeMotionTrail is a free Maya plugin for visualizing object motion paths. It displays the animation trajectory in real time directly in the viewport. Works in Maya 2019–2026.
v1.4 Windows Maya 2019+ 2 Mb  •  2026-04-02
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EU Anim Curve Tools
EU Anim Curve Tools
EU Anim Curve Tools is a toolkit for manipulating animation curves in Maya. It lets you quickly smooth, scale, time-offset, and ease selected keys using intuitive sliders.
v2.57 Windows Maya 2019+ 3 Mb  •  2026-04-07
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Maya Batch Converter
Maya Batch Converter
Batch convert Maya scenes between MA, MB, and FBX formats. Supports recursive folder processing, FPS preservation, and works with Maya 2019–2026.
v1.0 Maya 2019+ 1 MB  •  2025-03-28
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Feedback Like A Boss
Feedback Like A Boss
Keep feedback, tasks, notes and references all in one place — linked to specific project elements and always one click away. Born in animation production, built for any field.
v4.62 Windows 120 MB  •  2025-03-16
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PSI — Pict Snap Index
PSI — Pict Snap Index
Index your media folders once — then browse the full thumbnail gallery at any time, even with the source drives offline. Thousands of photos and videos, always at hand.
v1.23 Windows macOS 121 MB  •  2025-03-16
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SortMatic5000
SortMatic5000
If you work in 3D, design or animation, your hard drive is probably a mess. Textures, renders, references, PDFs, assets — all mixed together. SortMatic5000 sorts the chaos into order automatically.
v1.0 Windows 340 MB  •  2025-03-15
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FolderTree Collector
FolderTree Collector
Scans any folder and builds a full directory tree with timestamps. Export the result to a .txt file in one click. Simple, free, source code included.
v1.0 Windows 44 MB  •  2025-03-15
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Swap Animation
Swap Animation
Swaps animation data between two objects on a selected timeline range. Everything outside the range stays untouched. Perfect for fixing mocap mixups, timing experiments or rearranging cycle phases.
v1.0 Windows Maya 2019+ 3 KB  •  2025-03-15
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Scene Review Tool
Scene Review Tool
Batch-review Maya scenes (.mb, .ma, .fbx) from a folder without opening each file manually. Pick a folder, choose format, hit Start — then click Next through every file in order.
v1.0 Windows Maya 2019+ 16 KB  •  2025-03-15
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Quick Save to Temp
Quick Save to Temp
One-click save to a fixed temp folder — no dialogs, no hassle. Adds a _QS suffix and auto-increments versions. Works even on unsaved scenes.
v1.0 Windows Maya 2019+ 7 KB  •  2025-03-15
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Maya Persp Camera History
Maya Persp Camera History
Adds Undo/Redo history for the Persp camera — including moves triggered by scripts, which Maya's built-in [ ] hotkeys can't track. Stores up to 50 positions, runs silently in the background.
v1.0 Windows Maya 2019+ 9 KB  •  2025-03-15
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BoneAnim Combo
BoneAnim Combo
Merges multiple animation files into a single continuous sequence. Built for working with large animation libraries. Copy to shelf and go.
v1.2 Windows Maya 2019+ 89 KB  •  2025-03-15
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// About

Hi, I'm Eugene Melnikov

Character animator since 2006. I lead an animation outsource division, mentoring animators and shaping the creative process from brief to final shot.

Alongside animation, I write Python scripts to improve pipeline workflows and smooth out collaboration between animation teams. My tools are born out of real production pain — if something is repetitive and boring, I automate it.

Building Windows utilities is part hobby, part pragmatism — 50/50. I enjoy thinking up features, optimising processes, and occasionally shipping something useful to the world for free.

  • Lead animator & animation team lead
  • Character animation since 2006
  • Python scripting for animation pipelines
  • Windows utilities for everyday automation
  • All tools here are free, no strings attached