Community Rigs and Resources

slipsius

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.

Arturow

Free Cartoony Finn from Star wars rig https://gumroad.com/l/rufdB#

_adamturnbull

There are a bunch of free GDC talks in the GDC Vault online now!

http://www.gdcvault.com/free

Including this years animation Tricks of the Trade:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024320/Animation-Bootcamp-Tricks-of-the

(ninja edit: SLipsius) And the animation micro talks! 

http://gdcvault.com/play/1024314/Animation-Bootcamp-Animation 

slipsius

GDC - Animating Dauntless. Worth checking out! He goes into how they use mocap for their stylized game, as well as using mocap on their creatures. Great talk.

http://gdcvault.com/play/1024081/Animating-Dauntless-Slaying-AAA-Animation 

_adamturnbull

Hi Guys,

I've started putting together a simple blog that links to a load of useful animation resources. I'm hoping that it will become a big collaborative hub that animators can use as a source to go to for tools, rigs, reference material.. etc.

It's still in its early stages but if you know of any resources that you can't live without and think would be useful to others then let me know and I'll add it in!

https://animatorsresourcekit.wordpress.com/

slipsius

Nice! Good lookin out, Adam!

For courses, there's also http://www.animsquad.com/
https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/  has online courses as well as dvd tutorials

Might be a good idea to link the vimeo to some of the groups. Like this one. https://vimeo.com/groups/gameanim 

Arturow

awesome! it would be cool if you posted that into a sticky thread like the Animation Forum - Posting Tips, Tricks and Resources when you finish it , nice work!!

Hito

collection of Rigs, some are already familiar to many here.
https://gumroad.com/truongcgartist#

Arturow

A talk between Riot animators that was live on Jason Shum facebook talking with Warren Goff about the industry and some tips

https://www.facebook.com/shumface/videos/1417890778234727/

Green_Cheek_Conure

http://www.animatorisland.com/ tons of tips and goes decently deep in explaining concepts of animation.

AnthonyAnimation

A great resource for walks

A great resource for bird flight

Something similar

_adamturnbull

Thanks guys, will keep adding these whenever I get chance! If you think of any more let me know

jasonshum

Hey everyone, wanted to add on to this thread with some animation tutorials I recently finished.

These video tutorials focus on body mechanics and creating animations for games or demo reel catered to game studios. I'm currently a senior animator in the games industry and these are anims that I see students typically have trouble with, hopefully people find them useful and I appreciate any feedback!

Trailer Overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5kwUwIg550

Gumroad Tutorials - https://gumroad.com/jasonshum
- Combat
- Hit Reactions/Death
- Walks/Runs
- Traversal/Jump
There's a couple free videos in there to give you a sense of what I cover in the longer tutorials. I also offer private coaching/feedback reviews if you are looking for critiques on your work. Thanks!

- Jason
jasonshum.com

@Arturow thanks for the callout above on the video interview!

KyleG

Some more

Keyframe MP

MG Tools

Artella

Frame by Frame

CallumJB

KyleG said:

Some more

Keyframe MP

MG Tools

Artella

Frame by Frame

Keyframe MP is exactly what I've been looking for  

AnthonyAnimation

Books
Manwatching: A field guide to human behavior
Drawn to Life: Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Stop Staring

Reference
ARKive (a ton of animal reference)
AniRef

Software
Dragonframe (stop motion)

Animation Podcasts
Games Industry Mentor
The Animation Podcast

_adamturnbull

Thanks guys, keep sending them in. I usually add a batch at a time so if its not on there yet it should be soon!

Fabulous_Fab

I haven't watched these myself yet but they seem interesting:

Action: The Animator's Process
Becoming a World-Class Animator

AnthonyAnimation

https://www.2dimensions.com/ An upcoming 2d animation software. Looks really cool!

AnthonyAnimation

More animation software in beta that has some pretty unique features https://www.mokastudio.com/features.html 

Hito

Haven't tested any of these yet, but a big collection of Max rigs.
http://rigsarena.blogspot.com/

Arturow

2 maya rigs (creature and humanoid) and tools https://gumroad.com/peerke

AnthonyAnimation

This might help some animators interested in learning some basic game animation 

DerDude

DerDude

DerDude

DerDude

_adamturnbull

A new rig by Josh Sobel being released soon - 

Arturow

Lily and Snout characters from the Sketchfab and Artella collaboration are free upon registration https://artella.lpages.co/artella-lily-snout-giveaway/ 

Arturow

Oats Studios selling their assets including the crazy Zygote creature. Haven't used them but damn , they look scary and fun to animate  http://store.steampowered.com/app/652150/Oats_Studios__Volume_1_Assets/

Hito

Free, and highly flexible Max rig
https://shalabology.wordpress.com/free-stuffs/free-rigs/3dsmax/shiko-new-rig/

Bansheesix

Hey! I found a cute rig the other day, here it is: 

Has the download link in the video description

https://vimeo.com/213136771

KielFiggins

Free Spiderman and Web Rig http://www.3dfiggins.com/Store/

Arturow

Free rig , Jasmine , the face deformations looks reallly cool:
http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/jasmine-rose-rig-free-maya-character-rig-female-character-rig/

shalabology

Thank you Arturow  for pointing out my Rig , i would like to add that you can  download it directly from my site here:https://shalabology.wordpress.com/free-stuffs/free-rigs/jasminerose-free-rig-for-maya/
 

 

Arturow

Cool youtube channel with only animals in greenscreen https://www.youtube.com/user/GreenScreenAnimals

marcustaylor

Longwinter have released a new free rig at https://longwintermembers.com/free/
Haven't had a chance to check it out yet myself, but looks like fun and should be a pretty solid rig!

KyleG

Rocket Girl
http://vmcomix.blogspot.ca/2017/10/rocket-girl-rig.html

Arturow

Really appealing Free Croc rig:
Based on a concept by Axbraun
Model and textured by Olenka Denis
Rigged by Elise Mathez



https://cubebrush.co/olenka/products/1tsmhg/free-rigged-fantasy-character

AnthonyAnimation

https://www.nukeygara.com/ This looks like interesting animation software.

AnthonyAnimation

@_adamturnbull The Engine House Rigs you have listed on the site as "Maya Rigs" are actually Max rigs.

_adamturnbull

AnthonyAnimation said:

@_adamturnbull The Engine House Rigs you have listed on the site as "Maya Rigs" are actually Max rigs.

Oopsie, thanks for pointing that out. Will change now!

brucemoose

New atools.... Amazing little program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DezLHqXrDao&t=250s

AGoodFella

brucemoose said:

New atools.... Amazing little program.

Hell yes!! 

ATools is amazing.

MrBFox

Hello, Heres a BB-8 rig I made for people to tinker with (and test putting stuff up for download).
https://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/bb-8-free-rig-for-maya
heres an example of the rig in action.

AnthonyAnimation

Two free rigs by Thomas Vialetto and crew.
https://gumroad.com/l/ShUxY
https://gumroad.com/l/AvVUJ

Dancoo

Hey guys !
I made 2 Rig for Game, work in Maya free to download
Faun : https://gum.co/AvVUJ
Goblin : https://gum.co/ShUxY
feel free to contact me If you have any trouble with the Rigs
and do not hesitate to send me your animation, I would like to see your work !

MrBFox

Hello, heres a new rig ive been working on available to use, Astronaut Gimbal.
https://gum.co/nAaZq

Nakedwooki

I found this rig by Elise Mathez.

https://cubebrush.co/elisemathez/products/vei6g/red-dragon-free-rig

Hito

Rigged up Countess from Paragon using ART, base and Shogun Skins. The skeleton includes joints from both skins, Shogun version has extra joints. So if you're exporting base skin version, be sure to remove the joints for Shogun version before importing to UE4. The animations should still work, but UE will probably throw warnings about missing joints if you apply the full skeleton to base game skeleton asset.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z520hvf0g0y0wlj/Paragon_Countess.rar?dl=0



assets by Epic

Hito

Murdock https://www.dropbox.com/s/6q25m4ee2xd0bf4/Paragon_Murdock.rar?dl=0

assets by Epic