Standard Guy

Game-ready character · Blender → Unreal

I wanted one character I can reuse in every game project, so I stopped redoing a placeholder each time. He started as a long winter coat concept I designed in Blender with Claude, and then became a rigged mannequin wearing it. The body is a plain mannequin on purpose, so I can swap in a better one later and keep the clothes, the skin weights and the animations.

The rig uses Unreal mannequin bone names, so it should drop into Unreal projects without much fuss. He comes with idle, walk (also a root motion version), punch, hit reaction and death animations, exported as one FBX per clip. I have not tried him in Unreal yet, that is the next step. The animations are basic and the feet slide a little in the walk, but they work.

The coat is modular. The shell, a zip-in inner jacket, hood, fur ruffs, storm collar and a seal flap can all be switched on and off. The design came from a few coats I liked, the shape from a long tailored coat, and the collar and hood ideas from the Norwegian Rain Arctic Homme and the modular liner from the Krakatau Planck. Those are real products, only linked here as reference. I did not model them.

Update: he now has a face and hands. There is a male and a female version, both skinned to the same rig, so all the animations and the coat work on either one. The skin is dark brown like mine and the heads are a bit stylised on purpose, so he does not end up in the uncanny valley. Each one also got a small beanie, grey for him and pink for her. The hands have five fingers but no finger bones yet.

Year: Autumn 2026
Tools: Blender 5.2, Python, Claude
Rig: 23 bones, Unreal naming
Status: v2, faces and hands added, not tested in Unreal yet

Standard Guy standing in his long coat, front view — Idle, front

Standard Guy in his long coat, three quarter view — Three quarter

Standard Guy with the hood, storm collar and seal flap on — Hood and collar on

Male Standard Guy with a grey beanie and the long coat — Male, grey beanie

Female Standard Guy with a pink beanie and the long coat — Female, pink beanie

The walk cycle, two loops · 2 s

Standard Guy built up in five steps: bare mannequin, base clothes, sweater, coat, then the full hood kit — Built up in layers: mannequin, base clothes, sweater, coat, full kit

Standard Guy in four coat modes: hood and fur, collar, hood only and shell only — Four modes: hood, collar, hood only, shell only

Animation cycles

Six frames of the walk cycle from the side — Walk

Six frames of the punch animation — Punch

Six frames of the hit reaction — Hit reaction

Six frames of the death animation — Death

How the coat got here

Contact sheet of the first coat concept renders — First coat concept

Contact sheet of the third round of coat renders — Round 3

Contact sheet of the fifth round of coat renders — Round 5

The mannequin with the shell and inner jacket both open — Both layers open

The shell and inner jacket laid out flat — Layers laid out flat

Still to do on the coat: showing how the inner jacket attaches to the shell.

Reference images

AI generated reference image of a convertible shearling coat from four views — Reference: four views of the coat (made with ChatGPT)

AI generated reference image of the shearling collar and burgundy lining — Reference: collar and lining (made with ChatGPT)

Made in Blender through the Blender MCP connection, same as the Stinger. The coat design and what I wanted from the character are mine, Claude wrote and ran the Blender scripts for the modelling, rig and animation. The two reference images above were generated with ChatGPT.