Spline curves and surfaces (such as NURBS) are widely used in the context of shape deformation. Reasons therefor are that they are defined by a set of control points and hence, moving the location of these control points directly affects the geometry of the corresponding shape. We have designed spline functions that have useful properties (e.g. compactly supported, interpolatory, refinable, etc.) for parametric curve and surface representation. We also have mathematical formulations describing continuous shape deformation based on splines. A simple example is the use of specific spline basis functions in order to continuously deform the cylinder on the right into an exact sphere. Traditionally such tasks are performed using NURBS. However, our basis functions have some advantages over NURBS that we would like to exploit in this project. In this project we aim at developing a plugin for Audodesk Maya (or Blender) that implements the continuous deformation of such spline shapes resulting in an animation. The student should have a computer science background or be familiar with the Maya API. He or she should have an interest in computer graphics. Additional knowledge on image processing or splines would be beneficial.