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Sassy Nurgling Rig by Emilio Serrano
Sassy Nurgling Rig for Maya is a free mGear rig by Emilio Serrano of the Nurgling from Warhammer 40K, a round, grinning plague baby of a daemon with far too much personality for its size. Vadim B's model comes with a full AnimPicker, the mGear guide, Python and MEL post-scripts, and an FBX file for game engine import, so the same creature can work in Maya and in a real-time engine.
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- v1.0
- Version
- 117
- Downloads
- 26 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 29 Dec 2025
- Released
- Works with
- Maya + mGear
- Licence
- Free
- File size
- 48.1 MB
- Engine export
- FBX file included
Maya- mGear
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Everything the rig ships with. What you get on day one:
FBX for game engines
An FBX file ships with the rig for import into your game engine.
Full AnimPicker
A custom picker with its own background image.
Guide and post-scripts
The mGear guide plus Python and MEL post-scripts, so the rig can be rebuilt.
Weight in a round body
Controls built around the Nurgling's round, fleshy form, so it carries natural weight.
Watch it move
Sassy Nurgling, rigged on mGear by Emilio Serrano
The story behind the Nurgling
Warhammer's plague baby, rigged for Maya
The Nurgling is a miniature daemon from Warhammer 40K: a round, grinning plague baby with a personality far too large for its tiny body. Emilio Serrano rigged it on Vadim B's model, which carries every revolting, joyful detail into Maya.
This is a character that insists on being animated with maximum attitude and zero dignity, and the controls give you the expressive range to match. That makes it a good subject for comedic timing and for showing personality in a compact form, and the FBX keeps it ready for a game pipeline too.
Inside the rig
What you get with the Sassy Nurgling rig
Sassy Nurgling mGear rig
Rigged for Autodesk Maya by Emilio Serrano.
Full AnimPicker
With a custom background image.
mGear guide
The guide the rig is built from.
Python and MEL post-scripts
The scripts that finish the rig when you rebuild it from the guide.
FBX file
For import into a game engine.
Model and textures
3D model and textures by Vadim B.
Great for
What the Nurgling rig is great for
- Creature character acting
- Comedic timing studies
- Portfolio pieces that show personality in a compact form
- Animators working across Maya and real-time engines
Additional information
The details
- Software
- Autodesk Maya
- Rig type
- Creature
- Rig framework
- mGear
- Engine export
- FBX file included
- Picker
- AnimPicker with background image
Requirements
Autodesk Maya with mGear
- Autodesk Maya
- mGear, the framework the rig is built on
- Windows or macOS
Credits
Who made it
- 3D model and textures: Vadim B
- 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.
Yours to keep
It lands in your downloads the moment you check out, and stays there.
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