Animation test rigs wanted

hellflames21

I'm so close to finishing the computer games animation course I'm doing at the moment and I'm in a little bit of a panic as for where to go. I haven't updated my portfolio website in over a year and now I'm looking for rigs to play with and get an idea of what i might be expected to use in industry as well as updating my portfolio for animations. any and all kinds of rigs are welcome and greatly appreciated (be they facial animation rigs, character rigs, animal rigs or mechanical rigs etc) 3ds max preferable however I'm told both max and Maya work essentially the same for animation

Thanks in advance guys

Tengou

If you're looking for rigs I found some at these links:
http://animationbuffet.blogspot.ca/
https://gumroad.com/truongcgartist
https://www.highend3d.com/

Not everything you find will be industry quality but still good stuff.
There's also a giant sticky topic dealing with just this.

hellflames21

well that's a giant face palm hahaha scrolled straight past it, thanks for the help 

AnthonyAnimation

We have a resource thread. Adam, one of our mods, also started animatorsresourcekit.wordpress.com

Studios don't care what rig you use as long as you have good animation.

RKirtlink

If you're willing to drop $40 on a full set, the Body Mechanics rigs are all really well made and a ton of fun to use. You can see them pretty often in just about everyone's reels. But yeah, those are mentioned along with a ton of other nice rigs in that stickied post.

Hito

for exporting into engines yeah Max or Maya isn't too important since output is FBX. but a rig in Maya isn't going to transfer to Max, at least not easily. If you're animating in Maya, there are many great options listed above. If you want to animate in Max Highend3D has a bunch, also some here http://rigsarena.blogspot.com/

you can look at Adobe Mixamo as well, lower spec assets, but there're a few decent looking characters. They'll have game ready skeleton and skin weights but no real rigging. Compatible with HIK, and with a little jury rigging, should work with Biped/CAT as well.