They can't all be zingers. Sorry guys.

Day 26.

"Funny little bird, but he gets the job done."

Here's my submission for "Perch":

Mardini day26 Perch

It is said that Birds love to perch on the power lines becasue they can get high when the electricity passes by. I just exaggerate this effects by changing the feature direction and the color.

Birds rigging and animation is definitely one of the most difficult and tedious works in CG. This is the first time I did bird rigging(Actually all rigging and animation in houdini are new to me before this week). Using hair systmen to generate cards to simulate feather. I struggled for a while but after all glad to learn new things.

Day 26!

This bird has more tricks but I have no more time.



(edit: full version below.)

Perch. I love Kinefx!

day26

Missed the deadline by a few hours, but generally happy with where this ended up based on where it started and what I had in mind ... plus, I learned a few more things that will come in handy on the next iteration.

Please enjoy this late submission for day 26.

Should have done the tet creation in rest pos and point deform it to my init pose....