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Half Life - Houndeye Rig by Emilio Serrano
Half-Life Houndeye is a free Maya rig of the eyeless, three-legged alien from Valve's Half-Life, rigged on mGear by Emilio Serrano and tested in Maya 2022, with the model and textures by Alice J. (JenVulpine). It is built for animators who want to work out non-standard locomotion, predatory creature acting and the strange biomechanics of a body plan no biped rig will teach you.
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- v1.00
- Version
- 107
- Downloads
- 26 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 29 Dec 2025
- Released
- Works with
- Maya
- Licence
- Free
- File size
- 24.8 MB
Maya- mGear
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Latest rig updates
Half Life is out
Everything the rig ships with. What you get on day one:
Three-legged gait
A tripedal body plan with clean, manageable controls. Working out how it moves is the whole challenge.
mGear build
The mGear guide and post-scripts come in the download.
Model by JenVulpine
The pulsing flank, the crest and the forward lean of a creature that hunts entirely by sound.
Watch it move
Half-Life Houndeye, rigged on mGear
The story behind the Houndeye
Valve's nightmare dog, rigged for creature animation
Emilio Serrano stepped into the Black Mesa Research Facility and brought one of its best-known residents into Maya. The Houndeye is small, eyeless and three-legged, and it still packs real threat into that compact frame. Alice J. (JenVulpine) built a faithful model that keeps every unsettling detail, and in a shot all of it turns into mood, personality and menace.
The unconventional leg configuration is the rig's core challenge and its biggest reward. Work out how this creature moves with conviction and you will have learned something no humanoid or conventional quadruped rig makes you solve. Predatory behaviour, threat display, alien curiosity: the Half-Life visual language is all there to explore.
Inside the rig
What you get with the Half-Life Houndeye rig
Houndeye mGear rig
A tripedal creature rig for Maya, built and tested in Maya 2022.
mGear guide and post-scripts
The files the rig was built from.
Model and textures
By Alice J. (JenVulpine).
Great for
What the Houndeye rig is great for
- Creature locomotion studies on a three-legged gait
- Alien character acting: curiosity, threat display, predatory behaviour
- Portfolio pieces that show range and technical creativity
Additional information
The details
- Software
- Maya, tested in 2022
- Rig type
- Tripedal creature
- Rig framework
- mGear
Requirements
Maya + mGear
- Autodesk Maya, built and tested in Maya 2022
- mGear, the framework the rig is built on
- Windows or macOS
Credits
A collaboration
- Model and textures: Alice J. (JenVulpine)
- Rigging and animation: 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.
Yours to keep
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