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Foal Horse Rig by Emilio Serrano
Foal Horse is a free horse rig for Maya: a young foal inspired by the Spirit horse character, modelled and textured by Clartoon and rigged on mGear by Emilio Serrano. It comes with a full AnimPicker, the mGear guide with Python and MEL post-scripts, and an FBX for Unreal or Unity. Built and tested in Maya 2024, it is a quadruped made for walk cycles, canters and playful character moments.
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- v1.0
- Version
- 436
- Downloads
- 26 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 29 Dec 2025
- Released
- Works with
- Maya + mGear, tested in 2024
- Licence
- Free
- File size
- 13.3 MB
- Engine export
- FBX for Unreal or Unity
Maya
mGear
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Everything the rig ships with. What you get on day one:
A quadruped on mGear
Rigged by Emilio Serrano, with the mGear guide included so the rig can be rebuilt.
Picker with a custom background
The full AnimPicker, laid out over its own background image.
FBX for game engines
An FBX file in the download, ready for direct import into Unreal or Unity.
Model by Clartoon
Big eyes and soft proportions, modelled and textured by Clartoon.
Watch it move
Foal Horse, rigged on mGear
The story behind Foal Horse
A young horse finding its feet, as a Maya horse rig
Emilio Serrano rigged a foal inspired by the Spirit horse character, and Clartoon's model keeps what makes that design work: big eyes, soft proportions and coiled energy ready to spring into action.
Quadruped animation is a revealing test of timing and biological mechanics, and a young horse, with its stumbling energy and playful movement, gives you plenty to animate. Walk cycles, canters, playful interactions and emotional character moments all come naturally from the design.
The post-scripts cover rig rebuilds and the FBX goes straight into a real-time engine, so the foal works for a portfolio piece or for prototyping game assets.
Inside the rig
What you get with the Foal Horse animal rig for Maya
Foal mGear Maya rig
Rigged by Emilio Serrano, built and tested in Maya 2024.
Full AnimPicker
With a custom background image.
mGear guide
The guide the rig was built from.
Python and MEL post-scripts
For rebuilding the rig.
FBX file
For direct import into Unreal, Unity or another real-time engine.
Model and textures
By Clartoon.
Great for
What the Foal Horse rig is great for
- Walk cycles and canters
- Quadruped timing and body mechanics practice
- Playful interactions and emotional character moments
- Stylised creature work
- Prototyping game assets in Unreal or Unity
Additional information
The details
- Software
- Autodesk Maya, tested in 2024
- Rig type
- Quadruped, young horse
- Rig framework
- mGear
- Engine export
- FBX
Credits
A collaboration
- Model and textures: Clartoon
- Rigging: Emilio Serrano
Licence terms
Free
Free to download and use in your own animation work.
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Vetted
Every rig on Animworks is checked by our team before it goes live.
Supported
Questions and bug reports go straight to Emilio Serrano, or email support@anim.works.
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It lands in your downloads the moment you check out, and stays there.
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