EntVista/metrixel-rigged-characters

Metrixel Animated Character Samples

A small set of rigged, animated humanoid character models, free to use in your own projects. Each file ships with a skeleton, skin weights and a motion clip, so it drops straight into a scene — or retarget your own motion onto the rig instead.

They are published as complimentary sample content for Metrixel, a local 3D dataset-preparation toolchain — handy starting assets if you want to try a multi-view render, SDF or mesh-tensor export pipeline without hunting for content first.

Want this on your own models? Sign up free — 1,000 export tokens, no credit card. Point the Metrixel CLI at your model library to reproduce the same multi-view renders, SDF volumes and mesh tensors.

These are source assets only. No renders, SDF volumes or mesh tensors are included — this repository is the input side. For Metrixel's generated output from these very assets, see the companion dataset linked below.

Preview

What's inside

data/
├── AncientGeneral.glb
├── AncientKing.glb
├── AncientOfficer.glb
├── AncientRankedOfficer.glb
└── AncientSoldier.glb
metadata.jsonl   one row per asset: filename + provenance + geometry stats
LICENSE.md       evs-sample-assets-1.0

Formats: .glb ×5.

Assets

asset	format	rigged	tris	generated
AncientGeneral.glb	glb	yes	59999	2026-08-09
AncientKing.glb	glb	yes	60000	2026-08-09
AncientOfficer.glb	glb	yes	59999	2026-08-09
AncientRankedOfficer.glb	glb	yes	60000	2026-08-09
AncientSoldier.glb	glb	yes	59999	2026-08-09

Licensing

Released under the EVS Sample Assets Licence 1.0 (evs-sample-assets-1.0). You may use, modify, redistribute and sell work made with these assets, in commercial projects, with no attribution required.

One category of use is excluded: these models may not be used as training, fine-tuning or validation data for generative 3D models (text-to-3D, image-to-3D, mesh generation), nor included in datasets assembled for that purpose. Analytical and computer-vision research, benchmarking of existing tools, and reconstruction or segmentation work are all expressly permitted — see Clause 2.

The models were produced with generative tooling and the motion is retargeted from a freely-usable capture source. Everything here is provided as is, with no warranty of uniqueness, originality or non-infringement.

Full terms in LICENSE.md. Read Clause 3 before use — it excludes one specific category of use that permissive licences would allow.

Honest limits

• Clean, watertight generated geometry — useful as tidy test inputs, not as a substitute for scanned real-world meshes.
• Small set, single class (humanoid characters). Not a benchmark and not a corpus.
• Rigs are auto-generated and the motion is retargeted onto them. Expect to check weights around shoulders and hips, and to review foot contact and hand placement, before production use.
• Every character performs the same clip. This is a set of animated samples, not a motion library — bring your own clips if you need variety.
• Textures are embedded at 4K, so each file is 26-40 MB.

Related

• metrixel-character-renders — Metrixel's output from these exact characters: multi-view renders, 64³ SDF volumes and per-view mesh tensors.
• Open-source readers for those formats: metrixel-3d-dataset-tools (MIT).