Free game-ready 3D characters

“Game-ready” means a character you can drop into an engine and use today: a sensible triangle count, embedded textures, the right scale and a clean origin at the feet. The blocky heroes go further, with a skeleton and nine animations (idle, walk, run, jump, wave, two dances, celebrate and kick), so they work as player characters out of the box. They are listed first.

Behind them is a full cast of stylized NPCs and enemies: pirate captains, knights and a funny saucepan knight, vikings, wizards, a gnome, explorers and adventurer girls, inventors and mechanics, a chef, a scientist, a frog and fox explorer, an ogre, a goblin and cartoon mummies. These are static models — perfect for statues, shopkeepers, quest givers and portraits, or as a base to rig yourself in Blender. For animated-only picks see animated characters; to design your own, open the Character Creator.

Right now this collection has 89 models — for example Brojek Blocky Hero — Rigged & Animated, Blocky Pirate Captain — Rigged & Animated, Blocky Astronaut — Rigged & Animated, Blocky Knight — Rigged & Animated. Each one previews in 3D right here: click a card to spin it and play its animations. Download one free, or unlock all of them — plus every model we add later — with a single US$1 payment.