BIRD RIG: wing & leg

Blue Bird rig
Shows parts of the rig, wings & legs. The challenge was the character required more cartoonish flexibility, and while working non of my colleagues made a bird rig before so I was left exploring whatever problems I'd find.
Im quite surprised why I made 60+ shelf scripts (mostly MEL) just for the BIRD. And a few arent just short tool scripts. I'd need to organize and improve the scripts/rig into a better package as usual.
An "industry standard" is often to rig/animate in Maya, but keep the feathers and its complex motions to Houdini particles. Here I'm just attempting a simple & fast maya feather method. But because most renderers slow down with numerous transparent geometries, the sw isn't too fast. I can try tweaking the renderer if feathers can look good enough for the bird.

Next up is the facial rig, which used the majority of script tools.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• bird
• rig
• maya
• effects
• deformers
• softbody
• collision

[ewigkase1]

jolly good rigging there chap jolly good

[ourtrashcans]

I can't imaging this being the rig you use to animate a bird in flight.

[degemeny]

what about close wing :)

[1protozoa]

can do a tutorial of placing the bones to a model m reli new in houdini so that'd be gr8