UV workflows had long been one of the least-developed areas of 3D content creation, and Maya's tools at the time were limited and lacked many operations that 3D Artists need for efficient production work. For example: Artists had no reliable way to align, orient, straighten, distribute, or manage shells with precision, and UV editing often required heavy manual labor or third-party scripts. Creating a comprehensive overhaul meant that I had to design tools that Maya did not have, building a coherent UX around them, and ensuring robustness across a wide range of modelling scenarios - all without any existing framework or support team.

I built NSUV entirely from the ground up: first in MEL for rapid prototyping, later rewritten in PyMEL for maintainability and readability. I designed a unified UI that was not alien to the rest of the application. I built custom tools, added hotkey-driven workflows, and implemented dozens and dozens of new operations such as UV shell orientation, stacking, snapping, straightening, and texel-density tools.