Character Rigs: Other Apps

Animation rigs for Blender, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Unreal, Unity, Daz and 2D apps.

• Ace5 Studios Rig Shop (Cinema 4D) Paid. Shop of animation-ready Cinema 4D character rigs (Meldon, Missy and others) with IK/FK and face controls.
• anima.to Rigs. Community index of animation rigs filterable by software (Blender, Maya and others) with links to free and paid sources.
• Animation Guides Free Puppets (Character Animator). Free rigged Adobe Character Animator puppets with walk cycles, head turns, lip sync and gesture triggers.
• Animator's Resource Kit Rigs Mixed. Blog cataloging free and paid animation rigs, tools and learning resources for Maya and Blender, one post per rig.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• AnimStarter Rig Directory Mixed. Curated directory of 40+ Maya and Blender animation rigs with demo videos, filterable by software and price.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Autumn Rig (Blender). Spring open movie rig for Blender: the shepherd dog Autumn, with production body and face controls.
• Beefy4D (Cinema 4D). Free bulky character rig for Cinema 4D converted from the Maya Beefy rig, for body mechanics practice.
• Blender Studio Character Library Mixed. Blender Studio library of production character rigs from open movies, free CC-BY rigs plus subscriber-only archive.
• Bony4D (Cinema 4D). Free mannequin character rig for Cinema 4D by Ace5 Studios for body mechanics practice.
• Cartoon Animator Content Store (Cartoon Animator) Mixed. Reallusion store of rigged G3 2D characters and motions for Cartoon Animator, with free resources in-app.
• Cascadeur Scenes (RenderHub) Mixed. RenderHub section of ready-rigged Cascadeur .casc character scenes, free and paid.
• Character Object (Cinema 4D) Paid. Cinema 4D template rig builder with biped, quadruped, bird and fish presets for fast character rigs.
• Characters Content Pack (Moho) Paid. Eight rigged, animated Moho characters with bone IK and Smart Bones examples.
• Cookie Flex Rig (Blender). CG Cookie's customizable Blender character rig with body shape, face and clothing controls, released Creative Commons.
• Dave Character Rig (Blender) Paid. Cartoon Blender character built on CloudRig with full face rig and face and finger pose libraries.
• Einar Rig (Blender). Old man character rig from Blender Studio's Charge film, with production body and face rig.
• Electra Rig (Houdini). SideFX APEX character rig for Houdini 20.5 with full body IK, IK/FK blend, reverse foot, blend shapes and delta mush.
• Ellie Rig (Blender). Sprite Fright teen character rig for Blender with full body and face controls, production-tested.
• Erik Rig (Houdini). Rigged human character FBX from the SideFX content library for testing KineFX retargeting and animation.
• Free Girl Character Rig (Cinema 4D). Free stylized girl character for Cinema 4D, rigged and ready for motion design animation.
• Free Skeleton Rig (Blender) Free, non-commercial. Stylized skeleton warrior rig for Blender 4.4+ with equipment toggles, cloth physics and shader controls.
• Game Animation Sample Project. Epic sample with 500+ mocap locomotion and traversal clips driven by Motion Matching, compatible with all UE Mannequins and MetaHumans.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Genesis 9 Starter Essentials (Daz Studio). Free rigged Genesis 9 base figure with character presets, clothing, hair and poses, exportable via Daz bridges.
• Keeper of the Lighthouse (3ds Max) Free, non-commercial. Free stylized old sailor character for 3ds Max rigged from scratch with CAT, ready to animate.
• KineFX APEX Rigging & ML Skinning (Houdini). Houdini 20 scene with horse quadruped and humanoid rigs built in APEX, using ML deformation for skinning.
• Luchador & Chicken (Houdini). Two annotated APEX character rigs for Houdini by Od Studios covering autorig components and procedural skinning.
• Lyra Starter Game. Epic UE5 sample shooter with 300+ Mannequin animations (locomotion and actions) reusable via retargeting.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Mannequins Asset Pack (Unreal). Manny and Quinn UE5 mannequins with Control Rigs for keyframing in Sequencer, sharing the MetaHuman skeleton.
• MetaHuman Creator (Unreal). Epic's free realistic human generator inside UE 5.6+, outputs fully rigged body and face characters, exportable to Maya.
• P2Design Free Rigs (Blender). Pierrick Picaut's free Blender rigs: Trident, Mannequin, Crimson Ronin, P2DBOT, Trex, Mech and a 2D camera rig.
• Paragon Characters (Unreal). Epic's free Paragon hero characters on Fab: rigged game characters with skins and animation sets.
• Rain Rig (Blender). Free stylized female Blender rig from Blender Studio with IK/FK snapping, face controls and pose library, no add-ons needed.
• Rex Rig (Blender). Sprite Fright teen character rig for Blender with body and facial controls from the production.
• RigsArena (3ds Max). Blog index of 400+ free 3ds Max character, animal and prop rigs sorted by category.
• Robot Kyle (Unity). Free Unity robot character with humanoid rig, a common test model for Mecanim retargeting.
• Shalabology Free Rigs (3ds Max). Free 3ds Max rigs by Shalabology: biped, Cute Box, horse quadruped and Shiko character rigs.
• Simple Character Rig (Blender). Joey Carlino's lightweight Blender character rig with IK/FK limbs, heel and toe foot pivots and optional face rig.
• Sir Owl Rig (Toon Boom Harmony) Free, non-commercial. Free Toon Boom Harmony cut-out owl rig for animation practice and demo reels.
• Snow Rig (Blender). Free stylized male Blender rig from Blender Studio built on the Sprite Fright rig system, with IK/FK, layered face controls and pose library.
• Spineboy Example (Spine). Official Spine 2D example project showing meshes, IK, transform constraints and clipping on a rigged character.
• Sprite Rig (Blender). Sprite Fright creature rig for Blender with facial poses and animation loops from the film.
• Storm Rig (Blender) Paid. Blender Studio production rig for Blender 5 with body, hand and face pose libraries for fast blocking.
• Template-Chan (Toon Boom Harmony). Toon Boom Harmony cut-out character rig template for practice or reskinning into your own character.
• Toon Rig (Cinema 4D) Paid. Built-in Cinema 4D Character Object preset for cartoon rigs with stretch, squash and bendy limbs.
• UE5 Mannequin Blender Rig (Blender). Free Blender control rig for the UE5 Manny skeleton with root motion, FK/IK snapping and finger controls.
• UE5-Blender-Rig (Blender). Open Blender rig for UE5 Manny and Quinn skeletons with soft IK, IK/FK switch UI, finger rig and FBX export guide.
• Unity Starter Assets. Unity first- and third-person controllers with a rigged humanoid armature and locomotion animations, built on Cinemachine and Input System.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Unity-Chan (Unity). Unity Technologies Japan's free anime character with humanoid rig, animations, facial blendshapes and voices.
• Vincent Rig (Blender) Paid. Classic Blender Institute cartoon character rig with squash and stretch body and expressive face controls.