The Maw is a 1.6 m crawling horror creature made for PSX / PS1-style retro survival horror games. It has no real face, its whole chest opens into one huge mouth full of teeth. It drags itself forward on two long arms, its tail sliding behind it. From the same facility as The Dragger, The Vent Crawler, The Weaver and The Congregation.

Features

- Rigged: 39 bones, fingers included

- Chest mouth has its own jaw bones, so you can open and close it in your own animations

- 9 animations, all in place

- Imports at real-world scale, resting on the floor

Animations (30 fps)

- Idle_Breathe, slow breathing, the mouth slightly open (8 s loop)

- Idle_Hungry, chews slowly, fingers twitch (8 s loop)

- Crawl, pulls itself forward with its arms (1.8 s loop)

- Run_Pull, fast aggressive crawl (1 s loop)

- Run_Chomp, same run with the chest mouth snapping open and shut (1 s loop)

- Attack_Swipe, wide claw swipe in front of it (1.2 s)

- Attack_Eat, grabs something off the floor, feeds it to its chest and chews (5 s)

- Hit (0.8 s)

- Death, collapses face down on the floor (2.6 s)

Move speeds: Crawl 49 cm/s, Run_Pull 113 cm/s, Run_Chomp 113 cm/s.

Technical details

- Triangles: 11,372

- Textures: 2048, 1024 (clean) and 512, 256 px (PSX), PNG

- Rig: 39 bones

- Formats: FBX (mesh, rig and all animations in one file), Blender source file

- Tested in Unreal Engine 5.5. See the README if the idle looks jittery (compression setting).

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