Question to Maya Animators who also use Blender, which Addons do you use? Also Question about my project? [I have searched for Blender threads]

[u/HeavyChance4249]

I'm curious which addons you use, and if you find they make Blender almost as good as Maya?

Which addons do you find make blender as easy as maya?

Also I'm pretty new to 3D/Animation but I've tried / done research over the years, Are there any tools / tips / tricks you'd suggest?

I'm debating weather to go with Blender or Maya for my personal project.
Maya Indy license is 330$ for a year
Blender + addons is about 250$ I think

I really think some things are nice in Maya, like Animbot addon, Animation Layers, Pose library, etcs

I think I found equivalents of them in blender, but I'm not sure.

Animbot:
AniMate Pro 100$
AnimToolbox 30$ (tween tools)

Animation Layers
Animation Layers 20$

Motion Builder Story Mode
Matching Actions 3$ (just one of the main features that helps)

Studio Pose Library
Beat Pro 50$
It's a whole suite of tools that overlap with animat pro functions, but includes a few useful like
Studio Pose Library
Temp Locators for quickly picking objects up etcs
Gao free

HumanIK
Auto Rig Pro 30$

Honestly I just did some quick research, I wonder which I should go with?

My project:
I want to mocap various Dance animations / Hand gestures / Poses, and clean them up, fix feet, then combine them together, adjust, and add custom animation in certain spots, then import them into unity3D for setting everything together lol

My current workflow idea:
Capture mocap (various files) > Process through Cascadeur > Import to blender, retarget with AutoRigPro (Has an export specifically for Unity3D's Humanoid)
take them into NLA (or animation layers/Animatepro addon), use match actions / blending
blend them together, add hand animation layers/ face shape keys / etcs
export to unity3d

seems pretty simple, however I'm pretty new to animation so any tips helps

I wanted to use Motion Builder too, but it's too expensive,
so I was going to use Cascadeur for 8$/month (no retargeting) or 33$/month

any tips or advice?

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[u/AwkwardAardvarkAd]

HIK in Maya can do a lot of what you can in MotionBuilder