Welcome to the R&D Department:

Where ideas and frustrations get turned into useful things. Rethinking how you do what you do to bring the focus back to why you do it!

All LABS items are available to download below, and feel free to browse all posts in LABS category to see how they were developed. All apps & tools are free but you can donate if you like at the bottom of this page.

If you have issues, questions, or concerns please contact: andoruLABS.support

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storyboard templates
[create a storyboard with class]

light table!
[animate with your iOS device]

RenderQ
[command line render queue for After Effects, C4D, Maya, Nuke, and Shake]

projector
[simple workflow droplet that allows you to easily change project folder icons]

maya render
[render a maya scene with ease]

mayamaya
[easily open multiple instances of Maya on os x]

Maya x_x
[easily recover data from a Maya crash without searching through hidden folders on the mac]

Maya Recover Smart Search
[now redundant, use Maya x_x]

AEae | featured on Motionographer.com
[easily open multiple instances of After Effects on os x]

AERender | featured on Motionographer.com
[easily render AE projects in the background on os x]

NukeView
[drag and drop preview sequences in Nuke viewer]

NukeRender
[easily render Nuke scripts in Terminal on os x]

5DDtoRGBB
[easily open multiple instances of 5DtoRGB for DSLR footage processing]

difference
[align and cycle through QuickTime Player windows to check compression]

frame sexer
[automator workflow to rename, rotate, resize and convert scanned animation frames]

brushes

(it will be worth the wait, so wait a minute will ya’?)

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flashy!
[easily enable/disable the Flash plug-in]

fn
[easily toggle "fn" key functionality]

layout
[a Finder toolbar app to automatically keep your windows organized and aligned in a single click]

hide
[quickly show/hide hidden files in OS X Leopard]

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