Ila Rig by Noah Li

Product Overview

At a Glance

AUTODESK MAYA

Built for Maya and ready to drop straight into your animation workflow.

PRODUCTION READY

Designed for real-world animation workflows, from blocking to final polish.

Ila Rig for Maya: Free Game-Ready Maya Rig by Noah Li

Ila is an original character born from a collaboration project, brought to life as a free, game-ready Maya rig by Noah Li, the rigger behind Shiv, one of the most downloaded rigs on Animworks. Like Shiv, Ila is built the way a production game rig should be: robust, fully tested, and geared towards how animators actually work.

The rig is an mGear build for Maya 2022 and newer, with a full face rig for proper performance work, mGear dynamics on the hair and clothing, and a rigged Gada weapon for combat shots. An HIK definition is included, so you can retarget mocap onto Ila straight away, and a game-ready FBX ships in the download, compatible with the Unreal Engine 5 skeletal structure.

What you get with the Ila game-ready Maya rig

• mGear character rig: built for Maya 2022+ with mGear 4+, robust and fully tested
• Full face rig: expressive facial controls for acting and performance shots
• Hair and cloth dynamics: mGear dynamics set up on hair and clothing
• Gada weapon rig: a rigged weapon for combat and gameplay animation
• HIK definition: ready for motion capture retargeting out of the box
• Game-ready FBX: included in the download, compatible with the UE5 skeletal structure

What the Ila game-ready Maya rig is great for

• Gameplay animation and combat cycles
• Character acting and performance shots with the face rig
• Practising mocap retargeting through HIK
• Taking a shot from Maya into Unreal Engine 5 with the included FBX
• Reel work where a clean, tested rig keeps iteration fast

Requirements

• Autodesk Maya 2022 or newer
• mGear 4 or newer (free from the mGear releases page)

Licence and credits

Ila is 100% free under a CC-BY 4.0 licence: use the rig in your reels and projects, just credit the project. No adult content, please.

Credits: Concept by Nishant Greene, illustration by @roleder.art, model by @GrayKolori, technical animation and rig by Noah Li.

Ila game-ready Maya rig by Noah Li. See more free animation rigs on Animworks.