High-end character rigging, with precision, speed, smile... and soul

Soul of Puppet delivers high-end 3D character rigging for Maya, Blender and Unreal.
Built by artists, for artists!

With unmatched Optimal budget performance and production-ready quality, we combine technical mastery and artistic vision to bring your characters to life with soul, precision, and flexibility.

We adapt to any challenge: from a single character rig to an entire production, all in record time.

Our Maya plug-in, PuppetSoul, makes rigging fast, limitless, fun, and ready for any challenge. It offers maximum flexibility and can easily integrate into your pipeline if needed.
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WORKS

Spike

• Feature Movie Teaser

• All Rigs Done with Puppet Soul

• Role : Character TD

• Work In progress from September 2025

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Wild Heart

• Feature Movie

• Rigs done for Blender.

• Role : Rig Supervision/Character TD and Tool Development By SoulOfPuppet

• Work In progress from August 2025

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Ash

• TV Serie Teaser

• All Rigs done with PuppetSoul

• Role : Character TD.

• Done in September 2024. (No video available yet)

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Guerlain

• Advertisement for Illogics Studio

• All Rigs done with PuppetSoul

• Role : Character TD, PuppetSoul Dev+Support. Puppet Soul was used by the team.

• Work In Progress from November 2024.

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Pierre the Pigeon-Hawke

• Feature movie for Toonz Entertainment.

• All rigs done with PuppetSoul.

• Role : Character TD, PuppetSoul Dev+Support. Puppet Soul was used by the team.

• Work In progress from April 2024.

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PuppetSoul is the solution we actively use and continue to develop. It has been successfully used for over 10 years. Check PuppetSoul.

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From rig to motion — in record time.
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Over 20 Years of Experience

From indie shorts to AAA productions, we've been crafting rigs since 2002. We know what works, what breaks, and what animators truly need.
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Cutting-Edge Tool Development

We don’t just rig—we build the tools too. PuppetSoul is the result of years of R&D, with exclusive features for riggers and animators. We craft custom tools to fit your unique production like a bespoke suit.
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Loved by Animators

Fast. Intuitive. Expressive. Our rigs get out of the way so animators can focus on what matters: performance.  "It just feels good to animate with." — that’s the feedback we live for.
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Creative & Agile Team

We're artists first, techs second — and we speak both languages. Our team adapts fast, thinks outside the box, and works as true creative partners.
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Flexible Services

Need a single rig? A studio-ready toolset? Pipeline consulting? We scale to your needs and plug into your team seamlessly.
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Production-Proven

Our rigs and tools have been battle-tested in real productions, under real deadlines. Reliability and quality are baked in.

SERVICES

At Soul of Puppet, we offer flexible, high-end rigging solutions to fit every production, from indie teams to major studios. Whether you want us to handle everything or prefer to empower your internal team, we’re here to make your characters shine.
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Ready-to-animate rig: We build the rig. You animate.

You send us your character — we deliver a fully functional, production-ready rig. Clean, animator-friendly, fast in the viewport, and packed with features.
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Collaboration with Your Rigging Team.

We work hand-in-hand with your team using PuppetSoul, our in-house Maya plug-in designed for fast, high-quality rigging. It’s easy to learn, powerful to use, and customizable for your pipeline.
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Character TD Expertise.

Need experienced eyes on a complex setup? We offer senior-level Character TD consulting for rigging supervision, troubleshooting, optimization, and setup design. We bring both artistic sensitivity and technical depth.
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Pipeline Integration.

Smooth pipelines make better productions. We help connect your rigging tools and workflows with the rest of your production chain — from modeling to animation to export. Custom or standardized, we get it flowing.
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Custom Tool Development.

Every production is unique — so your tools should be too.We build custom scripts, modules, and UI tools tailored to your team’s needs, fully integrated into your rigging and animation workflow.
Rigging without limits. Animate without compromise.

PUPPET SOUL

We made the rigging solution we always wished existed.
PuppetSoul is our powerful in-house rigging plug-in for Maya, built with years of expertise, it combines flexibility, speed, and user-friendliness to create high-end rigs.

PuppetSoul craft complex rigs quickly, while offering full customization. It’s the result of a deep understanding of what riggers and animators need to bring characters to life.
DISCOVER

Another Tool : Flux

Flux is a pipeline management tool for Blender, built to streamline 3D production with asset tracking, task management, and automation.
It integrates smoothly with Blender and connects to Kitsu and ShotGrid, offering flexible, customizable workflows for efficient, organized production.

It will be soon available as openSource and free!
DISCOVER

TESTIMONIALS

I first heard of Puppet Soul through his inventor/owner, who was working for us at that time as Technical Director.

I have to say we were amazed and very enthusiastic about the demo he showed us and we therefore decided to try it for our current 3D production. I can testify this tool was efficient, easy to manage and it has saved lots of time, energy and money. I strongly recommend the use of Puppet Soul !

Cristobal Martinez
Production Manager on 'Foot2Rue'

Soul Of Puppet had developped the strongest tool for rigging solutions on the market. Puppet soul is a marvlous tool when you don't want to reinvent the wheel every single time. In the last project we made together, Ash for Gaumont, Soul Of Puppet really came with great solutions on specific problems very quickly and easily implemented them in the rig when I know, in other circonstances, this kind of problems could have asked weeks of R&D to solve.

Puppet Soul is fast, friendly, flexible, allows feature film quality animation, in one word... it WORKS ! I can only warmly recommend Soul Of Puppet as a company to work with for rigging solutions with Puppet Soul.

Hugo Cierzniak
Animator/Director on 'Dip N'Dance' and 'ASH'

At Toonz, we are committed to delivering world-class animation across our feature films and high-end television series. In this pursuit, Soul Of Puppet has been a valuable creative and technical partner. Their tool has consistently stood out for its innovation, flexibility, and production-ready performance. It has enabled our teams to enhance animation quality while maintaining efficiency—an essential combination for high-caliber productions.

Equally commendable is the support provided by the Soul Of Puppet technical team, who have been prompt, knowledgeable, and highly collaborative throughout. We highly recommend Soul Of Puppet to studios and creators looking to elevate their animation workflows. It’s an innovative and powerful solution backed by a passionate team

P.Jayakumar
CEO, Toonz Media Group For “Pierre The Pigeon” Production

NEWS

September 2025

New project with Submarine

Soul Of Puppet just signed a new project with Submarine for a Teaser of a Feature Movie. All done by Soul Of Puppet, with our PuppetSoul techno for Maya. Animators will love it!

August 2025

New project with Keytales

Soul Of Puppet just signed a new project with Keytales for a features movie all done by Soul Of Puppet. We will care about the character rigging for this amazing movie, all done in blender.
Programm : Character tool development, Rigging supervision and quality delivering!

Check the preprod trailer

July 2025

New Project With Next Pixel

Next Pixel is a Canadian based compagny. We made a deal for 2 incoming TV series! We are exiting to annonce that we begin to work on the preproduction for both. Production will come soon!

CONTACT

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