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Fable - Spike Rig by Emilio Serrano
Fable Spike Rig is a free Maya creature rig of Spike, the baby balverine from Lionhead's Fable series, rigged by Emilio Serrano on mGear 4 and tested in Maya 2024. It ships with a full AnimPicker over a custom background image, plus the mGear guide and Python and MEL post-scripts. Andrei Szasz made the model and textures. For companion animation and Fable fan projects.
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- v1.0
- Version
- 161
- Downloads
- 26 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 29 Dec 2025
- Released
- Works with
- Maya 2024 (tested), mGear 4
- Licence
- Free
- File size
- 232 MB
Maya 2024
mGear 4
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Latest rig updates
Fable is out
Everything the rig ships with. What you get on day one:
Built with mGear 4
Built with mGear 4 and tested in Maya 2024.
Full AnimPicker
A picker with its own custom background image, so navigating Spike's body is quick.
Python and MEL post-scripts
The mGear guide and both sets of post-scripts ship with it, for a complete rig rebuild.
Model by Andrei Szasz
A faithful take on the design, built to pose: wide eyes, small frame, plenty of attitude.
Watch it move
Fable's Spike, rigged on mGear 4
The story behind Spike
Fable's baby balverine, brought into Maya
Emilio Serrano has brought one of Fable's best-loved creature companions into Maya: Spike, the baby balverine. Mischievous and wide-eyed, he carries more character than most full-size heroes.
Andrei Szasz's model is a faithful interpretation of the design, expressive, appealing and easy to pose. He is every bit the companion you would want running alongside your hero through Albion, and every bit as fun to animate.
Spike's small, expressive body is the challenge. Excitement, wariness, affection and mischief all have to come through movement alone, and those are the same skills creature work in games and film asks for.
Inside the rig
What you get with the Fable Spike Maya rig
Spike mGear rig
Fable's Spike as an mGear 4 rig for Maya.
Full AnimPicker
With a custom background image.
mGear guide and post-scripts
Python and MEL post-scripts for complete rig rebuilds.
Model and textures
3D model and textures by Andrei Szasz.
Great for
What the Spike rig is great for
- Creature character acting
- Companion animation exercises
- Fable fan animation
- Selling emotion through movement alone, without dialogue
Additional information
The details
- Software
- Autodesk Maya, tested in 2024
- Rig type
- Creature companion
- Rig framework
- mGear 4
- Picker
- AnimPicker with custom background
- Rebuild
- mGear guide, Python and MEL post-scripts
Requirements
Maya with mGear 4
- Autodesk Maya, tested in Maya 2024
- mGear 4, which the rig is built with
Credits
A collaboration
- 3D model and textures: Andrei Szasz
- Rigging: Emilio Serrano
Licence terms
Free
Free to download and use in your own animation work.
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Vetted
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Supported
Questions and bug reports go straight to Emilio Serrano, or email support@anim.works.
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