A studio service
Blender rigs, accurate as possible.
Vehicles, motorcycles and machinery built from manufacturer blueprints, with the mechanism modelled rather than implied by the shell. Suspension travels, springs compress, panels move on their real hinges. Delivered as a .blend with a written control scheme.
$500 to test · $3,000 to rig · $6,000 to build from blueprints
Aventador Ultimae
BMW M1000RR
SL65 AMG Black Series
Aventador · engine bay
N° 01Scope
Hard surface, not characters
Cars, motorcycles, machinery, mechanisms, props — anything with rigid parts and defined movement.
No character rigging. Deformation, weight painting and facial systems are a separate discipline and we do not take that work.
The prices below cover the model and the rig. Animation is available and quoted separately.
01
Native Blender rigs
Constraints and drivers rather than baked keyframes. Custom control shapes, locked axes, limits on every control.
02
Modelled internals
Suspension, springs and linkages built as components. Each spring compresses through its real travel, whether or not the camera reaches it.
03
Written control scheme
Every control listed with its range and what it drives. Handed over with the file.
N° 02Two routes
You have a model, or you have drawings
With a usable model, the work is the rig — controls, constraints, working mechanism. About a month.
Without one, the model is built from manufacturer blueprints first. Six months to a year, because the internals are modelled as components rather than implied by the shell.
Send your deadline in the first message. It settles which of the two applies faster than anything else.
$500 rigs one assembly on your own file if you want to see the work before committing to either.
N° 03Investment
What it costs
Rig test
$500
One assembly rigged on a model you supply — a suspension corner, a door, a mechanism — returned in your own file.
- One assembly of your choosing, rigged
- Controls, limits and constraints as in the full job
- A written assessment of whether the rest is riggable
- Your own file back, not a copy
- About a week
Rigging only
$3,000
You supply the model. We rig it: controls, constraints, working mechanism.
- Full mechanical rig
- Controls for wheels, steering, doors and panels
- Suspension and internal moving parts
- Control scheme documented
- About one month from a usable model
Modelled and rigged
$6,000
Built from manufacturer blueprints, then rigged. The internals are modelled as components — which is where both the accuracy and the timeline come from.
- Modelled from manufacturer blueprints
- Internal components built, not implied
- Full mechanical rig on top
- Control scheme documented
- Six to twelve months, depending on the subject
N° 04Questions
The answers we give most often.
- Can we try you on something small first?
- $500 rigs one assembly on a model you already have — a suspension corner, a door, whichever part matters most. You get your own file back with working controls on that piece, plus a written assessment of whether the rest is riggable or the mesh is welded into one object. That assessment is also how the full job gets priced accurately.
- Is any of this client work?
- No. Everything shown is demonstration work built in-house: a Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae, a Mercedes SL65 AMG Black Series, a BMW M1000RR, a BMW R1200GS and a Kawasaki Zephyr 1100.
- Do you animate, or only rig?
- Most clients animate in-house or through an agency — that is what the rig is for. If you have nobody to do it, we can animate. Quoted separately, since the cost depends on the shot.
- What do we receive?
- The .blend file, and a written control scheme listing every control, its range and what it drives.
- Why not buy a rigged model from a marketplace?
- For many shots you should. Stock models are built to hold up in one kind of render: usually modelled from photographs, usually without internals or underside, rigged as far as the wheels turning. They break down when the camera moves somewhere the seller did not plan for, the suspension has to travel, or a panel has to open.
- Do you do character rigging?
- No. Hard surface and mechanical only.
- Why does building from blueprints take so long?
- The internal mechanism is modelled as real components rather than implied by the outer shell. That is the whole of the time difference, and it is why the model holds up at angles nobody planned for. If your deadline is shorter, supply a model.
Start your book
Send the model, or the drawings.
Tell us which you have and what it is going into. You get the route, the timeline and a fixed price back.
Built from blueprints, rigged to move
Five vehicles, modelled and rigged in-house. The green shapes are the controls an animator uses to drive the wheels, the suspension and the doors.
The vehicles shown are demonstration builds made in-house to show the craft — not client commissions. Each was modelled and rigged from manufacturer blueprints.
Both full figures are per vehicle. The gap between a month and a year is the difference between rigging something that exists and building it from drawings first. Send what you have and we will tell you which one you are asking for.
Four ways in, one craft
The same work, described for the person looking for it. Start wherever matches what you are building.
Vehicle rigging
Vehicles modelled from manufacturer blueprints and rigged in Blender. The mechanism under the bodywork is built rather than implied: suspension travels, springs compress, doors and panels move on their real hinges.
Blueprint-accurateInternal mechanismSuspension travelMotorcycle rigging
Motorcycles modelled from blueprints and rigged in Blender. There is no bodywork to hide the mechanism: forks, swingarm, chain and engine are all in shot from a normal camera angle, so all of them are built rather than suggested.
Blueprint-accurateFork & swingarmInternal springsProduct visualisation
If you make something mechanical — a vehicle, an aircraft, rolling stock, a machine — we build it in 3D from your drawings and rig the mechanism to move as the real assembly does. You receive the asset itself, ready for your team or agency to present with. If you have nobody to do that, we can animate it separately.
From engineering drawingsWorking mechanismOpens and comes apartBlender rigging
Hard-surface mechanical rigging in Blender — controls with defined limits, constraints doing the work, and a written scheme listing every one of them. Built so somebody who is not a rigger can animate it without breaking it.
Blender nativeCustom control shapesConstraint-driven
The vehicles shown are demonstration builds made in-house to show the craft — not client commissions. Each was modelled and rigged from manufacturer blueprints.