Introduction

This is a sheep character, including the model, textures, hair, rigging, and animation. The hair is created in XGen interactive with enough details, and all materials are built with Arnold renderer for realistically replicating the appearance and texture of a real sheep. The rigging is created with reference to real bones, making the animation in line with natural movements. The project provides a complete rigging setup along with one walking animation. This character was created at real-world scale using Maya 2024.

Features

Model Details: The model consists of the body, oral cavity, inner eyes, outer eyes, tongue, and teeth.
Textures and Materials: There are 6 .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.
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

Inner_Eye_L: Vertices: 610, Polygons: 640
Inner_Eye_R: Vertices: 610, Polygons: 640
Lower_Gums: Vertices: 541, Polygons: 536
Lower_Teeth: Vertices: 1,448, Polygons: 1,408
Outer_Eye_L: Vertices: 514, Polygons: 544
Outer_Eye_R: Vertices: 514, Polygons: 544
Tongue: Vertices: 610, Polygons: 608
Upper_Gums: Vertices: 542, Polygons: 533
Upper_Teeth: Vertices: 1,448, Polygons: 1,408
Body: Vertices: 10,710, Polygons: 10,633

Total: Vertices: 17,547, Polygons: 17,494

Animations

Loopable walking animation at 30 fps, frame range 1-41

Rigging

With detailed controllers, it's easier to create postures and animations, the features are as follows:

CTR_crv_MASTER – Root controller of the character.
Customizable attributes:
DEF_jnt_Vis – Controls visibility of the skinned bones.
MCH_jnt_Vis – Controls visibility of the auxiliary (mechanical) bones.
Mesh_Type – Controls the display mode of the model.

CTR_crv_gravity – Body controller (excluding the feet).
Customizable attribute:
RotateOrder – Controls the rotation order.

CTR_crv_Head – Head controller.
Customizable attributes:
Head_Follow_Target – Controls the followed target for the head.
RotateOrder – Controls the rotation order.
Sec_control_Vis – Controls visibility of secondary controllers.

CTR_crv_IK_spine_B – Rear spine controller.
Customizable attribute:
RotateOrder – Controls the rotation order.

CTR_crv_IK_spine_F – Front spine controller.
Customizable attribute:
RotateOrder – Controls the rotation order.

CTR_crv_L/R_B_leg_attr – Leg attribute controller.
Customizable attributes:
Foot_Eversion – Controls foot eversion.
Foot_Inversion – Controls foot inversion.
Foot_Pivot – Controls foot pivoting.
Heel_Raise – Controls heel raising.
IK_FK – Switches between IK and FK.
IK_Stretch – Controls IK stretch.
PoleVector_Follow – Controls pole vector following.
RotateOrder – Controls rotation order.
Stretch_Control_Vis – Controls visibility of secondary stretch controllers.
Toes_Raise – Controls toe raising.
Toes_Spread – Controls toe abduction and adduction.

CTR_crv_L/R_F_arm_attr – Arm attribute controller.
Customizable attributes:
Foot_Eversion – Controls foot eversion.
Foot_Inversion – Controls foot inversion.
Foot_Pivot – Controls foot pivot rotation.
Heel_Raise – Controls heel raising.
IK_FK – Switches between IK and FK.
IK_Stretch – Controls IK stretch.
PoleVector_Follow – Controls pole vector following.
RotateOrder – Controls rotation order.
Stretch_Control_Vis – Controls visibility of secondary stretch controllers.
Toes_Raise – Controls toe raising.
Toes_Spread – Controls toe abduction and adduction.

CTR_crv_neck_attr – Neck attribute controller.
Customizable attributes:
Follow_Target – Controls followed target.
IK_FK – Switches between IK and FK.
IK_Stretch – Controls IK stretch.
Stretch_Control_Vis – Controls visibility of secondary stretch controllers.

CTR_crv_spine_attr – Spine attribute controller.
Customizable attributes:
IK_FK – Switches between IK and FK.
IK_Stretch – Controls IK stretch.
Stretch_Control_Vis – Controls visibility of secondary stretch controllers.

Additionally, the face and body include more auxiliary controllers.
And more.

Specifications

File format: Saved as .mb files by default. It can be saved as .ma files if necessary.
Version supported: Created with Maya 2024. 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.