Animators: Free rigged characters online?

Geezus

I've poked around on CreativeCash and Freelancer, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for here.

I'll continuing using the googles, meanwhile, I figured I'd see if any of you animators out there can recommend some decent character rig sites. I would prefer Max, but Maya will do just fine.

Specifically monster/creature rigs that actually look decent. Thanks!

Vrav

That's one thing I've found is difficult to get reference for. Like, with models and textures you can just look at the wireframe and such. But rigging is kind of a black hole. There are a ton of free, nice rigs to look at for Bleeeender, but I'll probably get sniped for saying that. Man, the oppression, it just looms. But yeah, if you look for Big Buck Bunny stuff you'll find the rigs.

Looks like someone even put the main character into Maya:
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/rabbit

Seems there are a number of free rigs on that site for Max, too. Wonder if they're any good!
http://www.creativecrash.com/3dsmax/downloads/character-rigs/c/big-fat-strong
http://www.creativecrash.com/3dsmax/downloads/character-rigs/c/bull-creature-rig

Man, I'm trying to remember this one "walkthrough" type thread one of the moderators (I think) at GA did. It was this sort of squid-faced quadruped, and I remember them releasing the final model+texures for some reason, but don't remember if it was ever rigged or not. If it was, that'd be cool.

Geezus

Yeah, that was the first place I stopped by. Looks like some of what they have is promising...albeit limiting.

JacqueChoi

The one given away for free on the 11secondclub.com site is pretty nice.

The one they give to students of the animation mentor program is absolutely ridiculous.

Mark Dygert

The 11 second club has a good list of free rigs.

http://www.11secondclub.com/resources/

JacqueChoi

Yeah, Moom and Max are the standard ones.

Bishop is if you want to do insanely detailed facial animation and have them do crazy Dhalsim stuff.

Jeremy-S

That pic is kinda funny, even though I find Dreamworks stuff a billion times more entertaining than Pixar. I actually find pixars stuff rather forgettable

On the topic of free rigs, can't you use some of the already rigged stuff from games, exported to max/maya? There's no shortage of monsters in games, and the rigs will be production tested.

Cyrael

Check out www.animationbuffet.com if you havn't. They have a decent selection of maya rigs.

Geezus

Thanks for the replies everyone. I should have mentioned AM and 11SecondClub. Good stuff, most definitely, but they always revolve around very cartoony characters, not so much creatures.

I had not seen animationbuffet before, veerrryy cool, kudos!

Slum

Some guy rigged bobo's penisdemon a while back. that was cool.

Geezus

Slum wrote: »

Some guy rigged bobo's penisdemon a while back. that was cool.

Demon cock and all?

Taylor Hood

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/

http://www.animationbuffet.blogspot.com/

http://www.11secondclub.com/resources/

Cyrael

Taylor: I'm not trying to be a dick, but did you read any of the previous posts?

slipsius

http://www.3dfiggins.com/gallery.php?id=38&item=68#68

Bigjohn

Jacque, bottom-left picture is Finding Nemo isn't it? That was Pixar I believe.

slipsius

no, bottom left picture is a sharks tale

Bigjohn

oh my bad. forgot about that movie

Entity

Bigjohn wrote: »

oh my bad. forgot about that movie

exactly

Nice to see dreamworks maturing and moving away from animal flicks, although Kungfu Panda was awesome.