Free Maya scene files (.ma/.mb) from Autodesk learning content, Arnold and Bifrost samples, rig authors and tutorial creators.
37 free project files
MetaRig's free fully rigged stylized female warrior is a Maya character rig distributed as metarig_female_warrior.zip. The character features a custom blend-shape facial rig that plugs into the MetaHuman control rig…
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Devilun is a free fan-made rigged character model for Maya 2025, published on BOOTH by the Japanese creator 鳥小屋 (crt-tsk).
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CLASS_01.mb is the starter scene for lesson 1 of PolyCube's free beginner Maya course, 'Begins with Maya'. The lesson uses this simple practice scene to teach viewport navigation (tumble, track and dolly) along with the…
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Applibot Rig v2.1.0 is an official free set of Maya 2023 character rigs from the Japanese game studio Applibot, Inc., based on a rig used in professional production.
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This free sample data from ポリキュー部 (Polycube) on BOOTH accompanies a cut-out frill (ruffle) modeling workflow the group shared on X. It shows how a character-clothing frill is built from cut-out geometry driven by alpha…
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The Smoking Gnome is a comprehensive RenderMan for Maya look-development project by Rémi Perrier, released through Pixar's RenderMan community resources with project editing by Leif Pedersen.
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gkRig (maya_bifrost) is a rigging-oriented Bifrost compound pack for Maya by GitHub user gaki131, shipped with example scenes.
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bifrost_AkPBD is a Bifrost compound pack for position-based dynamics (PBD) in Maya 2024, created by GitHub user akasaki1211 and released with sample graphs.
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This is the official Chaos practice scene for the 'Creating animations in V-Ray for Maya' getting-started lesson, provided as Getting_Started_V-Ray_Maya_Render_Animations_Scene.zip.
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These are the lesson 10 files from Autodesk's Bifrost Bootcamp series on the Maya Learning Channel, covering 'Building tools for 3D pipelines'.
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This official Chaos beginner practice scene accompanies the 'Lighting your scene in V-Ray for Maya' getting-started lesson and is supplied as Getting_Started_V-Ray_Maya_Lighting_Scene.zip.
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bifrost-dl-core is an open-source set of Bifrost deformer and rigging compounds for Maya 2022 by GitHub user dtlindsey, inspired by Rhythm & Hues-style character rigging.
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These are the lesson 3 files from Autodesk's Bifrost Bootcamp on the Maya Learning Channel, tied to the bonus episode 3.9 that sets an exercise for the viewer.
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Dragon Plush is a RenderMan look-development project of a plush dragon toy (look-dev Julia Boisvert, model Evan Dickinson, concept Emmalie Hall), released through Pixar's RenderMan community resources.
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This is the official Autodesk start scene for lesson 1 of the 'USD in Bifrost' series on the Maya Learning Channel. The lesson demonstrates how to create a USD stage inside a Bifrost graph in Maya using the Bifrost USD…
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The 'Maya Mixamo Tutorial Project' is a 48 MB zip of project files from Max J Crider's Mixamo character animation series for Maya 2020.
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Walking Teapot Meets Mat is an educational RenderMan for Maya project from Pixar's RenderMan team (Leif Pedersen), with the scene built by Vladimir Petkovic of Adobe Substance 3D.
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Honey Bee is a Maya project by Ayoub Chaibi, shared through Pixar's RenderMan Community Resources and rendered with RenderMan 24 (XPU compliant).
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AZRI is a free game-animation practice character rig by Jonathan Cooper of gameanim.com, built for Maya 2018 or later. The rig is designed for studying game-style body mechanics and combat animation, and version 1.2…
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The Eleven Rig (ElevenRig_v1.2) is an open-source cartoon character rig for animation practice, maintained by the Eleven Rig community and made for Maya 2014.
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This Animate Better video shows where to find free Maya character rigs and how to bring them into a scene, and it links the rig used on screen: the third-party freeware 'Fox Rig for Maya' hosted on Highend3D.
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MonsterBottle.mb is a Maya scene from Vbackup2's tutorial on modeling a bottle with liquid, uploaded in 2016 as the project file for the video.
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Bender.zip is the project folder for part 1 of a two-part beginner-to-intermediate Maya tutorial on modeling Bender from Futurama, published in 2013 by Misterh3D on the Edge-CGI 3D Tutorials channel.
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This free benchmark scene by Japanese rigger inopoa, published on BOOTH for Maya 2024 or later, accompanies the author's blog series on Maya matrix rigging.
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Melco Rig is a free, lightweight character animation practice rig for Maya 2022 by zkanimation23, built with mGear and distributed on BOOTH.
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Lou Rig is a free female character rig for Maya 2017 or later by Boris Klimov (November17), built on AdvancedSkeleton over a model by Dmitry Danilov.
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The jd Flour Sack rig for Maya is Joe Daniels' take on the classic flour sack animation exercise, built for Maya 2013 or later.
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This small Maya 2019 sample scene from 3DCGBOOK出版 on BOOTH demonstrates a control rig whose pivot can be moved freely to any position.
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The AnimRig Squirrel is a free quadruped creature animation rig for Maya 2020 from the 'Free Stuff' section of Kiel Figgins' 3dfiggins.com store.
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This is the Maya scene file used in MayaGuy's flamethrower tutorial, shared so you can open the finished effect rather than rebuilding it from the video alone.
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This free Maya project file by Kelvin Tam contains a spiral staircase setup and is the companion file to the author's YouTube tutorial on building it.
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Kayla-Bot is a free simplified robot version of the Kayla Unlimited character rig, made for Maya 2018 or later by Josh Sobel's fRigging Awesome Studios.
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The Cowardly Blob in Rainbowland is a pair of experimental nParticle scenes for Maya by Brent Forrest. 'The Cowardly Blob' is a particle creature driven by about 40 lines of expression code that seeks a red ball and…
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JoshCam is a free realistic camera rig for Maya created by Josh Janousky (JustJoshinMagic) for his own short film. It combines features the author liked from several existing camera rigs into a single setup, so it…
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Attic Studio is an interior scene converted to Maya and Arnold by Alex Mateo (alezmateo), based on a concept by Jeremy Vickery.
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Malcolm 2.0 Free Edition is the $0.00 version of AnimSchool's well-known, feature-quality Malcolm character rig for Maya.
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The Arnold for Maya Learning Scenes are Autodesk's official collection of 24 example scenes from the Arnold for Maya (MtoA 5.5.4) User Guide.
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