Free Maya 2025 Character Rig: Devilun Fan-Made Rigged Model (BOOTH)
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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Animation projects for Maya: 12 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
12 free project files
Free Maya 2023 Rigs: Applibot Rig v2.1.0 Game Character Rigs
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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Free Maya V-Ray Scene: Chaos Animation Rendering Practice File
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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Free Maya 2020 Project Files: Mixamo Auto Control Rig Tutorial Series
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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Free Maya Character Rig: AZRI Game Animation Practice Rig (gameanim)
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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Free Maya Cartoon Character Rig: The Eleven Rig v1.2 (Open Source)
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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Free Maya Rig: Fox Rig for Maya on Highend3D (Animate Better Guide)
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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Free Maya 2022 mGear Rig: Melco Rig for Animation Practice (BOOTH)
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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Free Maya Animation Rig: jd Flour Sack Rig by Joe Daniels (Gumroad)
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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Free Maya 2020 Creature Rig: Kiel Figgins AnimRig Squirrel and More
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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Free Maya Robot Rig: Kayla-Bot by fRigging Awesome (Josh Sobel)
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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Free Maya Character Rig: AnimSchool Malcolm 2.0 Free Edition
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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