Community Rigs and Resources

slipsius · Mar 2017

Welcome to the Rigs and Resources sticky. Please feel free to share your resources (tutorials, articles, tools, etc) and rigs in this thread. Things shared in this thread will also be added to the following site, so be sure to bookmark it for your one stop shop for everything animation.

https://animatorsresourcekit.wordpress.com/

Note: This thread was 3 different threads merged together. Thank you for all those involved in the previous threads.

heboltz3 · Feb 2015

Now that we have our own forum, I figured I'd start a thread documenting all the rigs out there for animators to use!

I'll probably end up cross posting from several other threads, but I figure we could use this thread to be the one stop shop for the new forum.

I'll kick things off with some of the popular ones

11 Second Club Resources

Joe Daniel's Body Mechanics Rigs

Andrew Helenek's Dota 2 Rig Dumb

http://animationbuffet.blogspot.ca/

3d Figgins Rig Sets

Ramtin's Moom Rig

Josh Burton's Morpheus

Norman Rig

AnimationABC.com school's free rigs

*Note: These next two have specific guidelines about usage*

Free Animation Mentor Rigs

Anim School's Malcom

This next section is all from CG Meetup and seems to be Maya Only.

Mathilda Rig

Mery Rig

World Zombination Rigs

Minion Rig

Hotel Transylvania Zombie Rig

Pink Panther Rig

Ultimate Rigs

andyvargas · Mar 2015

this is great! thanks for sharing! :'D

Ankattakk · Mar 2015

Cheers! Great stuff. I've come across http://creaturerigs.com/ with a couple of nice Maya rigs.

slipsius · Mar 2015

Title changed and thread stickied. Thanks for starting this, Heboltz3!

PeteHawk · Mar 2015

Here's are a few of mine:
All of which are Maya Rigs

Heavy - Team Fortress
Scout - Team Fortress
Fox - Creature
Horse - Creature
Squirrely - Creature
Wolf - Creature
Eagle - Creature
Dinosaur - Creature
Hulk - Hulk

Sand · Mar 2015

I've posted a couple rigs I made over in The Great 3D Game Art Giveaway Thread but I thought I'd share them here as well.

Lu The Tiger

Robot Engineer

Also, if anyone has models they would like rigged feel free to send me a message. I'm always looking to get more practice in rigging, either in Max or Maya.

Gmanx · Apr 2015

I put this in the Thread of Awesomness - but thought it should go somewhere in here too - it's a resource? Mods feel free to move it if this is not the right spot.

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ScottBurgoyne · Apr 2015

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TravisBolek · Apr 2015

Try the World Zomination rigs.

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/zombie-rig-maya-rigs-maya-character-rigs-free-maya-rigs/

heboltz3 · Apr 2015

Yup those are great! Already included in the sticky post

ScottBurgoyne · Apr 2015

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heboltz3 · Apr 2015

Mixamo has a few free zombie rigs, if I recall correctly..

ScottBurgoyne · Apr 2015

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Cnc96 · Jun 2015

Hi guys!

I'm looking for a simple character rig which can be used as a way of rapidly prototyping animations for a game that I'd like to work on. If anyone has any knowledge of where I could find a character similar to the one used in UE4, or the Body Mechanics rigs, which can be used in Unity that would be great.
Thanks!

bejkon · Jun 2015

Cnc96 wrote: »

Hi guys!

I'm looking for a simple character rig which can be used as a way of rapidly prototyping animations for a game that I'd like to work on. If anyone has any knowledge of where I could find a character similar to the one used in UE4, or the Body Mechanics rigs, which can be used in Unity that would be great.
Thanks!

Are you using Maya? If you want something similar to the UE4 vanilla rig you can just use it. Get your hands on the script that comes with UE4 and rig that character.

Mixamo has a bunch of free characters. They have the HumanIK naming convention so you can rig it Maya/Motionbuilder very quickly. Another plus is that you can easily slap on some mocap if needed.

DerDude · Aug 2015

http://mrigs.squarespace.com/

DerDude · Aug 2015

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LeeMeredith · Sep 2015

Hey I found load of interesting characters by David Oreilly at http://www.davidoreilly.com/downloads/ rigged by Amy Hay

Svalinn · Sep 2015

DerDude wrote: »

http://mrigs.squarespace.com/

Fantastic character !
If people buy it, can he share it pls ?
(For a 3D animation student).

Thx for this post, now i have a large bank of rigged character !

heboltz3 · Oct 2015

Cool looking rig for maya right, Here!

red_egymer · Nov 2015

Hi Guys! I made some free beginner animation tutorials for creating walk cycles. You can grab them here if you're interested, thanks!
https://gumroad.com/l/bOZq

Svalinn · Nov 2015

Hi i found this free monster rig for maya with facial control, IK.. etc
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/tiny

PeteHawk · Dec 2015

Malcolm 2.0 is out now:
http://www.animschool.com/DownloadOffer.aspx

Svalinn · Jan 2016

Star Wars 7 Storm Trooper rigged character :
https://sketchfab.com/models/4fc7c836c348440fa654a7adc6efee55

May the Force be with you !

joarwho · Jan 2016

Svalinn said:

Star Wars 7 Storm Trooper rigged character :
https://sketchfab.com/models/4fc7c836c348440fa654a7adc6efee55

May the Force be with you !

I just downloaded this and I'm a bit confused. This is just a 3d mesh bound to a skeleton. There is no painted weights, there is no IK/FK controls and no finger/toe joints. Maybe I downloaded the wrong file?

KielFiggins · Jan 2016

Hey guys, I've started hosting the rigs from my personal projects. Feel free to check them out here: http://www.3dfiggins.com/Store/

I have about a dozen more to put up, so it should be expanding in the next few weeks. Enjoy.

Rmunday · Jan 2016

@KielFiggins , when I get paid will definitely be investing in a couple of these for personal projects, look like astounding rigs. Would you consider putting up a couple of Rig videos on request to show the rigs features before a purchase?

KielFiggins · Jan 2016

Hey RMunday, my goal is to put up as many rigs as possible first, then go through in do videos for them a bit later. So far I've put up a few rig demos that should give you a good idea what the other rigs have in store. However, if you have a specific question, by all means ask and I'll let you know. Hope you enjoy them:

Rig Videos:

And if you want to see them actually animated, a good number of them can be seen here: http://3dfiggins.com/Personal/

joarwho · Jan 2016

KielFiggins said:

Hey RMunday, my goal is to put up as many rigs as possible first, then go through in do videos for them a bit later. So far I've put up a few rig demos that should give you a good idea what the other rigs have in store. However, if you have a specific question, by all means ask and I'll let you know. Hope you enjoy them:

Rig Videos:

And if you want to see them actually animated, a good number of them can be seen here: http://3dfiggins.com/Personal/

These looks awesome! Haven't watched all videos yet but they look like well built rigs. I'll probably buy one of these, when I get my next paycheck

heboltz3 · Feb 2016

A couple more great ones that passed by my way recently

https://gumroad.com/truongcgartist

http://www.cgtarian.com/character-ray/download-character-ray.html

Hope it helps! Ill try to keep adding stuff a bit more aggressively if I see anything interesting!

Arturow · Mar 2016

Puppy rig

http://matarawi.wix.com/matarawi#!copy-of-charlotte-rig/c95b

Arturow · Mar 2016

I still don't use it but in the video description looks awesome , its a free mechanical rig

Modeled by By Luis Perez and Rigged by Tre Vital

https://gumroad.com/l/ZyNEq#

KielFiggins · Apr 2016

Hey guys, here's the latest from my end.

Adventurer Rig (Maya 2014) available here: www.3dFiggins.com/Store
Model by the very talented Carl Forsberg ( https://www.artstation.com/artist/carlforsberg )

Rig Demo

I also got a bit carried away with the animation example, so I pushed it further than I normally would

penOr · Apr 2016

That is an awesome model, and nice looking rig!

heboltz3 · Apr 2016

http://www.cgrecord.net/2016/04/download-zootopias-judy-hopps-rigged-3d.html?m=1

Image: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nrf4WJbHCr8/Vv3_8ZitVpI/AAAAAAABg4U/xWanV7zHGmEFsbRsdCnLn8-BhC7fT8yHQ/s1600/Judy-Hopps-rigged-3D-Model2.jpg

Check it out!

Svalinn · Apr 2016

https://cloud.blender.org/p/characters/#
you can find some free Blender rigs here. Like ''Sheep Franck'' ''Sintel'' and more

atomheart0mother · May 2016

Hey guys
Just bought Joe Daniel's Body Mechanics rig but I ve got a problem: FPS drops drastically when I trying to move or rotate Spine_Torso_IK. I think it happens because of stretching feauture, but neck is working fine (it also can stretch). Has anyone encountered this problem?
I m using maya 2016, win 10 64-bit, 12 Gb RAM, NVIDIA GForce GTX 950M.

Arturow · May 2016

@atomheart0mother I haven't used maya 2016 but they work fine in 2014 since they were created for " 2014 "& up" " haha I would try to run them in 2014 or 2015 , maybe that's the problem ;o

joarwho · May 2016

@KielFiggins Hey man! I bought your Yellow dude rig yesterday, it looks awesome and I'm really excited to take it for a spin. It's quite slow and laggy on my work computer though (no the fastest computer), haha. Gonna have some fun with it when I've set up my computer at home

KielFiggins · May 2016

@joarwho Hope you like the rig once you get it going. A couple things will speed it up either turning off textures or on the very top group in the outliner, toggle off High Res and Anim Res. Good luck, keep me posted!

_adamturnbull · Aug 2016

Its worth mentioning that this link has had a few more free rigs added to it since it was previously posted:

https://gumroad.com/truongcgartist

Might be worth adding it to the first post too

RN · Sep 2016

Telltale Games (company behind The Walking Dead games, Wolf Among Us etc.) has a "cinematic test" package for people applying as a cinematic artist. It comes with audio, a script and instructions for people to make their test animation. It talks a bit about pacing and camera work, it's nice to read:
If the link goes down, here is the ZIP that was in that page (it belongs to that company, I've nothing to do with it):
Application-Cinematic_Artist.zip

Taken from this page:
https://telltale.com/jobs/?id=oRXs2fw2

Hito · Sep 2016

Quick and dirty parent switching in Maya. Useful for props switching hands, holster/sheathing. Not really for a one-off switch, directly keying the constraint weights will work for that; good for something that gets repeated use.