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Pirate Sailor 3D Model
Bring pirate crews, buccaneers, sailors, smugglers, and rugged seafarers to life with this game-ready rigged Pirate Sailor 3D model, created for real-time games, pirate adventures, Age of Sail settings, historical environments, RPGs, open-world projects, cinematic scenes, and NPC population systems.
The character features a distinctive rugged pirate crewman appearance, combining a tied headband, loose off-white sailor shirt with rolled sleeves, dark sleeveless vest, necklace details, worn cropped trousers, belt, and weathered leather boots.
His lean silhouette and practical seafaring clothing make him suitable for a wide range of roles, including pirate sailor, pirate crewman, buccaneer, corsair, deckhand, smuggler, outlaw, rogue, ship crew NPC, harbor character, tavern NPC, coastal villager, or background character.
With 22,502 triangles, the model provides a strong balance between recognizable character detail and real-time performance, making it suitable for modern game-development pipelines and interactive 3D projects.
The Pirate Sailor is supplied in a clean T-pose with a complete full-body skeletal rig covering the spine, torso, arms, legs, hands, and individually rigged fingers.
The Rigify source file contains the complete animation control rig, deformation bones, IK/FK controls, finger rigging, original metarig, skinned character mesh, materials, and packed textures. This version is intended for users who want to create custom poses, animations, or rig adjustments directly inside Blender.
A second Blender file contains a cleaner and simplified humanoid skeleton converted from the Rigify setup, designed specifically for game-engine export. A rigged FBX exported from this version is also included.
The FBX has been tested with the Unity Humanoid Avatar system, with the main humanoid bones correctly recognized and mapped, making the character suitable for Humanoid animation workflows, animation retargeting, and compatible third-party animation libraries.
No animations are included. The supplied skeletal rigs provide a ready foundation for custom animation, posing, and animation retargeting.
Key Features
Technical Specifications
Character Overview
Included Rigging Files
Complete Blender source containing the Rigify control rig, IK/FK controls, deformation bones, finger controls, original metarig, skinned character mesh, materials, and packed textures.
Separate Blender file containing the character with a simplified humanoid skeleton converted from the Rigify setup.
Includes the skinned character mesh, simplified humanoid hierarchy, full-body deformation rig, finger bones, materials, and packed textures.
Rigged FBX exported from the simplified humanoid skeleton and suitable for integration into Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender, and other applications supporting FBX skeletal animation.
Tested with Unity Humanoid
The simplified humanoid FBX has been tested with the Unity Humanoid Avatar system, with the main humanoid bones correctly recognized and mapped. This makes the character suitable for animation retargeting and compatible Humanoid animation workflows.
Textures & PBR Workflow
The character uses a Metallic-Roughness PBR workflow and includes texture presets for widely used game engines and 3D applications.
Texture Resolutions:
4K, 2K, and 1K PNG
Maps Included:
Base Color, Normal DirectX/OpenGL, Roughness, Metallic, and Ambient Occlusion
Unreal Engine:
ORM texture containing Occlusion, Roughness, and Metallic channels
Unity:
Standard Metallic texture and HDRP Mask Map
Blender:
Materials prepared for Cycles and Eevee
Recommended Uses
With its combination of a complete Rigify source, simplified humanoid game-engine rig, rigged FBX, PBR textures, and versatile pirate sailor appearance, this character provides a flexible foundation for Blender animation workflows, real-time game development, pirate crews, NPC populations, and historical adventure projects.
This is a fictional character and is not intended to represent or reproduce any real individual. Any resemblance to real persons, living or deceased, is purely coincidental.
AI-Assisted, Human-Refined
This asset was partially created using AI-generated high-poly references. Retopology was performed using AI-assisted tools, while mesh cleanup, topology refinement, UV mapping, baking, texturing, and rigging were manually completed. Created with licensed AI tools and carefully reviewed for full commercial use.
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