This stegosaurus was a quick project I threw together so that I would have a model to use for developing new rigging features. My goal was to stress-test my curve rigging nodes in Mantis, and to challenge myself with the requirement of keeping the bony plates rigid while the body deforms.
Here is a turnaround of the Stegosaurus with its material and lighting, and a turnaround that shows the wireframe and texture layers.
Here is a demo of the Stegosaurus rig and some of its various features. This Stegosaurus was rigged with Mantis Rigging Nodes, so it’s really easy to edit it, and the rig can be adapted to any kind of quadruped animal.