Introduction

This is a realistic African elephant model with multiple 4K textures in the UDIM format, hair, rigging, and multiple animations. The model is made with Blender and Cycles renderer at real-world scale, and is suitable for Blender 2.91 and above. The model consists of 7 objects: Body, lacrimal glands, pupils, lacrimal caruncles, tongue, teeth, ivory.

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Polygons

Body: vertices 57,452; polygons 57,450

Lacrimal glands: vertices 1,028; polygons 1,088

Pupils: vertices 1,348; polygons 1,408

Lacrimal caruncles: vertices 706; polygons 704

Tongue: vertices 1,734; polygons 1,732

Teeth: vertices 31,980; polygons 31,488

Ivory: vertices 1,842; polygons 1,816

Total: vertices 96,090; polygons 95,686

Formats

There is a Blender project and an OBJ file.

Rigging

The character has a complete control system

CTR_Gravity controls the torso and with 4 custom attributes: Head_follow, Neck_Follow, Tail_Follow, and Tail_IKFK that control the head, neck, tail following and tail IK/FK separately.

CTR_Belly is used to create breathing animation.

CTR_Foot.L/R, CTR_Arm.L/R control the movement of the 4 limbs, and with custom attributes: Leg_I/FK and Leg_Stretch.

CTR_FootPads.Bk.L/R, CTR_FootPads.Fr.L/R and CTR_FootPads_Stretch.Bk.L/R, CTR_FootPads_Stretch.Fr.L/R control the squeeze of the foot pads.

CTR_Head controls the movement of the head, and comes with the custom attributes: Nose_F/IK/Spline and Nose_Follow.

CTR_EyeBlink.L/R control blink

And more...

Animations

Unlooped playing animation at 30fps, frame range 1-398

Unlooped StopWalking animation at 30fps, frame range 1-360

Loopable walking animation at 30fps, frame range 0-156

Unlooped WalkAndLook at 30fps, frame range 1-342

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Features

The model is in meter units at real-world scale.

To run faster, the fur is toggled to Render and with Display disabled. You can enable the Display if needed.

No sculpture project.

We used some shape keys to modify the body shape for a better result, so the shape will be affected if they are deleted.

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