Maya Quadruped Dog Rig

I have a finished dog model that now needs a full production-ready rig in Autodesk Maya. The scope is strictly technical—no modeling or texturing—so you can dive straight into the rigging work. What I need you to build • FK/IK switchable legs with clean pole-vector placement for easy posing • An IK Spline spine that continues through the tail, with stretch-and-squash on the body section only (the tail should keep volume) • Facial controls for jaw open/close, eye blinks, ear rotation and flapping, plus a simple tongue setup that lets me stick it out or curl it in • Zero-lattice, zero-shear deformation: weights must be painted so the mesh holds volume during extreme squash and stretch tests • A tidy, animator-friendly picker or channel-box naming convention—no orphaned nodes or history left behind Acceptance test 1. I will import the rig into a clean Maya 2020 scene. 2. All controls must load without errors or missing plug-ins. 3. Posing the dog from sit to run to lie-down should not introduce mesh popping, double transformation or elbow/knee flips. 4. File hierarchy must be grouped under one top node named “Dog_RIG”. Send me a stripped-down playblast showing walk, trot and idle poses so I can sign off the skin weights before final delivery. Once approved, deliver the .ma file plus a referenced clean version of the mesh. If you’re comfortable meeting these points, let’s get started—happy to answer any technical questions right away.

Project ID: 40166284