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A detailed 3D animation model of a large, prehistoric creature, resembling a giant lizard, lies on a gray background. The model is surrounded by colorful rigging lines and controls, showcasing its animated joints and limbs. The creature's textured skin features muted earthy tones, while the circular rigging highlights the complexity of its design.

Free Komodo Rig for Fun

12.06.2026
Free Komodo rig for portfolio work, plus paid tiers for commercial pipelines. Big lizard, small invoice, careful license.

MoonshotCGI has made a free Komodo asset available through its Try our assets page. The free package is a multi LOD model, muscle ecorche, an advanced rig, 2K multiUDIM textures and a walk cycle animation. Also, there is a facial rig (Insofar as Dragons have face instead of giant maws of putrid creepyness), multiple resolution levels and files for Maya, FBX, Alembic and OBJ workflows.

For creature artists, this is the useful kind of freebie: not just a still-friendly mesh, but a rigged animal with animation data. It gives modelers, animators, TDs and lookdev artists something to poke before procurement wakes up. Test teh rig, deformation, texture coverage and caches before trusting it in a real pipeline.

A detailed 3D model of a large creature resembling a prehistoric beast, shown in a neutral pose. Colorful animation rigging lines and nodes in blue, red, and yellow envelop the model, while a gray background emphasizes its textured skin and muscular form.

The commercial product page has paid versions of Komodo Dragon starting at €292,62. License options include Non-Commercial, Indie and Studio, with Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond asset tiers. Non-Commercial Silver costs €292,62 and includes model, textures and lookdev. Non-Commercial Gold costs €438,93 and adds rigs. Indie Silver costs €780,33, Indie Gold costs €1.170,50 and Indie Platinum costs €1.365,57. Studio Silver costs €2.926,23, Studio Gold costs €4.096,72 and Studio Diamond costs €4.681,97.

Indie is listed for individual freelancers only. Studio tiers use 4K textures, while Non-Commercial and Indie tiers list 2K textures. Indie Platinum and Studio Diamond list walk, run and idle cycles. Studio Diamond also adds animations and simulations. So, igf the joke from the dailies session gets to big, you don’t have to rebuild it, but can buy the odel and put it in there. We assume, a lot of background gags in cinematic historey start this way.

Formats and pipeline reality

The paid product has .abc, .obj and .fbx. Textures are listed as EXR, TIFF or PNG. Rigs, lookdev and animations use .ma or .mb. Simulations use .hip, which points that part of the asset toward Houdini users. External plugins are not required at the moment. MoonshotCGI is moving its rigging workflow to mGear, and future rigs will require it when the asset description says so.

https://shop.moonshotcgi.it/en-eu/pages/try-our-assets
https://shop.moonshotcgi.it/en-eu/products/komodo-dragon


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