Maya Rigs - Free and Paid

Some cool free rigs:

Sony's Zombie Rig: http://splinebomb.com/hotel-transylvania-free-zombie-rig/
Hulk Rig: http://dharmindoshi.com/blog-posts/hulk-rig-free-maya-rig/
AnimSchool Rig: http://www.animschool.com/DownloadOffer.aspx
Animation Mentor Rig: http://www.animationmentor.com/free-maya-rig/
Various!: http://www.11secondclub.com/resources

Paid Rigs:
Joe's Mega Pack: http://artofjoe.blogspot.com.tr/p/blog-page.html

Other Sources:
Great Collection of Rigs: http://animationbuffet.blogspot.com.tr/
http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/ultimate-rigs-maya-rigs-maya-character-rigs-free-maya-rigs/
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/

There are so many good free rigs out there now, have a look on animbuffet for most needs

More Fighting Tests

To differentiate from the previous tests I chose to have the character use a staff:    
Hiroshi Staff Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
Rig: Hiroshi. bambu-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/dragon-weaver-update.html

With Each of these tests I tried to give the character a goal, in these examples I imagined the character defending their home from an intruder by showing their skills, or like in the punch test, I imagined it was a training test.

Fighting Tests Continued...

Continuing my tests I wanted to try some fighting moves without a weapon:    
Hiroshi Punch Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
Rig: Hiroshi. bambu-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/dragon-weaver-update.html

Fighting Tests

Well its been over a year since I posted much, life took over a bit and the move to America and starting a new job took its toll. But I have been animating! I have been working on some stylized animations, trying to push weight, timing and poses: Firstly I want to point out that I took Ref/Inspiration from many areas like movies/anime, but these 2 shots really stand out for me:
https://vimeo.com/96192722
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWCIZ47HkB0

In these 2 examples the use of poses, timing and staging is awesome, aswell as the use of objects to create some amazing shapes in maya.

So with that in mind I started with a sword test:    
Hiroshi Sword Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
Rig: Hiroshi. bambu-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/dragon-weaver-update.html

One of the areas I was exploring is smear frames, in this I only smeared the sword but I would like to go back and add smear poses to the character :)

Keith Lango

This:
https://keithlango.com/animationclinic/cart/

$99 bucks for all 61 videos - They are amazing and well worth it

His videos on moving holds and timing were extremely helpful to me