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Starship Troopers - Warrior Bug Rig by Emilio Serrano
Starship Troopers Warrior Bug Rig (the Zwarrior) is a free Maya creature rig by Emilio Serrano, built on mGear with a full AnimPicker laid out over multiple custom background images so every one of the Bug's limbs stays easy to find. Laura Fossati Díaz modelled and textured it. Made for animators who want a multi-limb, non-humanoid combat creature for sci-fi action shots.
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- v1.1
- Version
- 204
- Downloads
- 26 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 29 Dec 2025
- Released
- Works with
- Maya + mGear
- Licence
- Free
- File size
- 19.1 MB
Maya- mGear
Instant download Vetted creator
Latest rig updates
Starship Troopers is out
Everything the rig ships with. What you get on day one:
AnimPicker for many legs
Multiple custom background images split the picker up, so you can key all those legs without losing track of which is which.
Rebuildable in mGear
The mGear guide and post-scripts ship with the rig, so a full rebuild is on the table.
Model by Laura Fossati Díaz
Clicking mandibles and segmented armour plating, modelled and textured by Laura Fossati Díaz.
Built for aggression
A design that asks for bold, quick, aggressive movement: good practice for telegraphing intent in a body with no face to act with.
Watch it move
The Starship Troopers Warrior Bug, rigged on mGear
The story behind the Warrior Bug
The Federation's most feared enemy, rigged for Maya
Emilio Serrano has rigged the Warrior Bug from Starship Troopers: a creature that exists for one purpose and pursues it with terrifying biological efficiency.
Laura Fossati Díaz's model captures it in full menacing detail, from the clicking mandibles to the segmented armour plating. It is a design that demands bold, quick, aggressive movement, and the rig gives you the control you need to sell a creature this complex.
The hard part of a bug like this is the leg count. The control layout is organised around the multi-limb configuration, so you can animate every leg without losing your timing or your place. That makes it a proper technical challenge: coordinating many limbs, telegraphing intent through body language, and making aggression read in a form that is nothing like a human.
Inside the rig
What you get with the Warrior Bug Maya rig
Warrior Bug mGear rig
The Starship Troopers Warrior Bug as an mGear rig for Maya.
Full AnimPicker
Multiple custom background images to handle the Bug's many limbs.
mGear guide and post-scripts
Everything needed for a complete rig rebuild.
Model and textures
3D model and textures by Laura Fossati Díaz.
Great for
What the Warrior Bug rig is great for
- Multi-limb creature animation
- Aggressive combat behaviour and attack cycles
- Large-scale creature shots and sci-fi action sequences
- Sci-fi portfolio pieces that are not another biped
Additional information
The details
- Software
- Autodesk Maya
- Rig type
- Multi-limb creature
- Rig framework
- mGear
- Picker
- AnimPicker with custom backgrounds
- Rebuild
- mGear guide and post-scripts
Requirements
Maya and mGear
- Autodesk Maya
- mGear, which the rig, its guide and its post-scripts are built on
Credits
A collaboration
- 3D model and textures: Laura Fossati Díaz
- 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.
Yours to keep
It lands in your downloads the moment you check out, and stays there.
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