Description
Animated Leopard 3D Model — Rigged, Walk and Run Cycles
This rigged and animated leopard 3D model (Panthera pardus) is a production-ready big cat built for VFX, film, animation, and real-time projects. It ships with loop-ready walk and run cycles, a full 3ds Max CAT rig, and 4K textures, with clean, subdivision-friendly topology. Native 3ds Max scenes render in Arnold and V-Ray, with FBX, DAE, and OBJ exports.
What's new — v1.3 (Oct 3, 2025): native 3ds Max 2023 (Arnold 5.4.4.2); reorganized locomotion with cleaner loop/blend compatibility; corrected FBX exports (baked animation, fixed skin settings); improved pounce timing.
Key Features
- High-quality polygonal model with clean, subdivision-friendly topology (TurboSmooth-ready).
- True-to-scale — Display Unit Scale set to Metric (meters).
- Rigged with the 3ds Max CAT system, with organized layers and logically named controls.
- Loop-ready locomotion plus a large library of action and facial animations (listed below).
- Drop-in ready: materials and textures applied, no special plug-ins required.
- Objects grouped and named to avoid conflicts when importing multiple models into one scene.
Rigging and Animation
Rigged with the 3ds Max CAT system. All animations are embedded in the FBX and DAE exports.
Locomotion — CATMotion, loop-ready:
- Walk — 35 frames [CONFIRM]
- Run — 25 frames [CONFIRM]
Baked / standalone locomotion layers:
- Baked Walk — 45 frames [CONFIRM]
- Run (adjustment layer) — 18 frames [CONFIRM]
Action animations:
- Standing / Idle — loop-ready
- Pounce — improved timing
- Sit (seated pose)
- Lie Down / Roll onto Back / Frolic
- Stand Up and Turn Around — 72 frames
- Walk Up and Sit Down — 70 frames
- Return to Hero — 350 frames
- Ear Twitch — 300 frames
- Paw the Air — 120 frames
- Speaking — performance layer
Pose and facial layers: eyes blinking, mouth closed, roar, tail down.
Textures and Materials
UV-mapped materials provided as JPG and PNG [CONFIRM: PBR set, or diffuse/bump/normal only]:
- Leopard body diffuse — 4096 × 4096
- Mouth UVW — 4096 × 4096
- Mouth bump — 4096 × 4096
- Mouth normal — 1024 × 1024
- Nails UVs — 4096 × 4096
Formats and Renderers
- FBX — multi-format, includes all animations
- DAE — multi-format, includes all animations
- OBJ — static mesh, for broad compatibility
Technical Specifications
| Category | Animal / Big Cat — Leopard (Panthera pardus) |
| Polygons / Vertices | [CONFIRM — add base-mesh poly and vertex count] |
| Scale and units | Real-world scale; Metric (meters) |
| Rig | 3ds Max CAT rig, IK/FK |
| Renderers | Arnold 5.4.4.2 (Max 2023); V-Ray Adv 3.60.05 (Max 2019) |
| Textures | 4K body diffuse, 4K mouth bump, 1K mouth normal, 4K nails |
| Topology | Subdivision-ready (TurboSmooth) |
| Included formats | MAX 2023, MAX 2019, FBX, DAE, OBJ |
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