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Vulk Rig by Abdel Benaissa
Vulk Rig for Maya is a character rig by Abdel Benaissa for acting shots, body mechanics and portfolio work. The download holds the Vulk character rig, its texture files, and body and facial animPickers built on Dreamwall Picker, and it runs in Maya 2022.3 and later. The controls are kept simple on purpose, so a strong silhouette or a clean weight shift comes from your posing rather than from wrestling the setup.
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- v1.5
- Version
- 16 Mar 2026
- Last updated
- 16 Mar 2026
- Released
- Works with
- Maya 2022.3 and later
- Licence
- Perpetual
- File size
- 27.8 MB
- Pickers
- Dreamwall Picker, body and face
Maya 2022.3+
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Everything the rig ships with. What you get on day one:
Maya 2022.3 and later
Made for Autodesk Maya, from version 2022.3 onwards.
Body and facial pickers
Two animPickers on Dreamwall Picker: one for the body, one for the face.
Textures in the download
The character's texture files come in the same download as the rig.
Holds its shape
Deformation stays stable through complex movement, and the control count stays low enough to pose fast.
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Vulk Rig for Maya by Abdel Benaissa
The story behind Vulk
A Vulk rig built for animating, not for fighting the controls
Abdeldjalil (Abdel) Benaissa designed and rigged Vulk with one goal: give animators full control over performance, posing and timing, without a wall of technical setup in the way. Clarity and usability come first, so your time goes into the shot instead of into working out what each control does.
The rig is built to hold expressive poses and stay stable through complex movement. That makes it a fit for anything from a quick exercise to a polished portfolio shot or a cinematic sequence, whether you are pushing a stylised performance, refining a body mechanics piece or blocking an acting beat.
Inside the rig
What you get with the Vulk Rig for Maya
Vulk character rig
The full character rig for Autodesk Maya 2022.3 and later.
Texture files
The character's textures, included in the download.
Body animPicker
A Dreamwall Picker layout for the body controls.
Facial animPicker
A second Dreamwall Picker layout for the face.
Great for
What the Vulk rig is great for
- Acting shots and performance animation
- Body mechanics exercises
- Character animation practice
- Portfolio and showreel shots
- Stylised performances and cinematic sequences
Additional information
The details
- Software
- Autodesk Maya 2022.3 and later
- Rig type
- Character rig
- Pickers
- Dreamwall Picker, body and face
- Textures
- Included
Requirements
Maya 2022.3 or newer
- Autodesk Maya 2022.3 or later
- Dreamwall Picker, to open the body and facial animPickers
Credits
Who made it
- Design and rigging: Abdeldjalil (Abdel) Benaissa
Licence terms
Perpetual
Buy once, keep it. Personal and commercial animation work. Redistributing or reselling the files is not permitted.
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Vetted
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Supported
Questions and bug reports go straight to Abdel Benaissa, or email support@anim.works.
Yours to keep
It lands in your downloads the moment you check out, and stays there.
Community
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