Download VFX artist David Llopis’s free Maya dragon rig
Dragon Rig is now online !!!!
You can download it here: https://t.co/yTqCz9HTpRPlease share your animations tagging me and repost this with the rest of the community.
Happy animating !#animation #3danimation #CharacterAnimator #maya #mayarig #creatureanimation #free #dragon pic.twitter.com/cgMTuqRDL7
— David Llopis (@dllopis) October 30, 2024
David Llopis, Lead Animator at leading international VFX studio DNEG, has released a neat free Maya character rig of a dragon.
A free bipedal dragon rig for portfolio work
Based on a model by 3D character artist Angel Diaz Romero, the rig is a wingless, bipedal dragon – it’s closer to a dinosaur than, say, Smaug.
Created using popular Maya rigging toolset AdvancedSkeleton – free for non-commercial use – it has controls for the limbs, body, neck and head, plus the bony spines at the sides of the head.
It isn’t licensed for commercial use, but it looks a useful resource for portfolio work.
Licence and system requirements
David Llopis’s dragon rig was created for Maya 2022, and has not been tested in other versions of the software. It’s a Maya MB scene file with 1,024 x 1,024px textures in BMP format.
The rig is free for personal and educational work. Llopis asks anyone using it to credit him when posting work on social media.
Download David Llopis’s Maya dragon rig from his Gumroad store
(Enter a figure of €0 to download it for free, or make a voluntary donation)
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