Introduction

This is a high-quality emperor penguin model with maps, fur, rigging and animations. The fur is created in XGen interactive with enough details, and all textures are rendered with Arnold renderer for realistic effects. The rigging is created with reference to real bones, making the animation in line with natural movements. The package includes the rigging setup and 2 standard animations. The model is created with Maya 2024 at real-world scale.

Model Details: It consists of the body, sclerae, black sclerae, pupils, teeth, tongue, and white tail feathers (multiple objects).
Textures and materials: There are 16 .tx files which support Arnold, all in 4K resolution for best quality and details. The materials of the character and the hair are rendered with Arnold renderer to present realistic effects. There are 2 UV sets of the body, which support single quadrant or multiple quadrants.
XGen hair: XGen interactive is used for presenting the details of the hair faster, and all maps of density and modifier masks for hair layering are included externally, all masks are in 1K resolution.

Meshes

Body: vertices: 47,326; polygons: 47,274
BlackSclera: vertices: 898; polygons: 896
Pupil: vertices: 5,252; polygons: 5,248
Sclera: vertices: 1,156; polygons: 1,216
Teeth: vertices: 4,992; polygons: 4,368
Tongue: vertices: 15,015; polygons: 14,992
WhiteTailFeather: vertices: 920; polygons: 644
Total: vertices: 75,559; polygons: 74,638

Animations

looped Walk animation at 30 fps, frame range 1-36
looped Toboggan animation at 30 fps, frame range 1-25

Rigging

Featuring highly detailed controllers, making posing and animation much more convenient. The features are as follows:

CTR_crv_MASTER: Controls the entire rig and includes custom attributes such as "DEF_Jnt_Vis", "MCH_Jnt_Vis", and "GEO_Vis".
CTR_crv_gravity: Controls the body movement (excluding the legs).
CTR_crv_Spine_attr: Spine attribute controller with custom attributes "IK_FK", "IK_Stretch", and "Stretch_Control_Vis" to control IK/FK switching, limit IK stretch, and toggle the visibility of secondary stretch controllers.
CTR_crv_neck_attr: Neck attribute controller with custom attributes "IK_FK", "IK_Stretch", "Follow_Target", and "Stretch_Control_Vis" to control IK/FK switching, limit IK stretch, enable the neck to follow the upper spine, and toggle the visibility of secondary stretch controllers.
CTR_crv_head: Head controller with custom attributes "Head_Follow_Target", "Rotate_Order", and "Sec_Control_Vis" to enable the head to follow neck movement, set the head controller rotation order, and toggle the visibility of secondary facial controllers.
CTR_crv_L/R_eye_blink: Eye blink controller.
CTR_crv_L/R_arm_attr: Arm attribute controller with custom attributes "IK_FK", "IK_Stretch", "Pole_Vector_Follow", "FK_Arm_Follow_Target", and "IK_Hand_Follow_Target" to control IK/FK switching, limit IK stretch, toggle pole vector following hand movement, enable FK arms to follow the body, and set IK hand parent following.
CTR_crv_L/R_leg_attr: Leg attribute controller with custom attributes "IK_FK", "IK_Stretch", "Pole_Vector_Follow", "Stretch_Control_Vis", "Rotate_Order", "Heel_Raise", "Toes_Raise", "Foot_eversion", "Foot_Inversion", "Foot_Pivot", "Toes_Spread", and "Toes_Curl" to control IK/FK switching, limit IK stretch, toggle pole vector following foot movement, toggle the visibility of secondary stretch controllers, control foot controller rotation order, heel raise, toe raise, foot eversion, foot inversion, foot pivot, toe spreading, and toe curling.
CTR_crv_L/R_tail_fea_attr: Tail feather attribute controller with custom attributes "Feathers_Ctr_Vis" and "Sec_Control_Vis" to toggle the visibility of tail feather controllers and secondary tail feather controllers.
Additionally, the rig includes more auxiliary body controllers and many other detailed features.

Specifications

File format: Saved as .mb files by default. It can be saved as .ma files if necessary.
Version supported: Created with Maya 2024.2, 2025.3. Maya 2024 or above is recommended for compatibility.

Caveats

The XGen hair in this Maya character asset has been converted to interactive grooming, offering fast loading and efficient rendering. Although the original guides are not included, you can customize the hair by adding XGen modifiers as needed. All XGen hair in the scene is set up with Arnold materials, ready for rendering.
By default, Arnold uses GPU as the render device, and the sampling setting is suitable for medium quality output, as is shown in the preview image of the character. If you need a fine-tuned image, you can modify Arnold settings to your hardware limit.
The animation scene comes with Arnold lighting, which can be modified if required.
Except for the above, the character can be rendered directly.