Character: Turtle Dove

[Akuma]

wow, thats really nice, i like your use of colors on the head, the light purple gives it an almost magical look, very nice :)

[lordmachuca]

your textures rock. i have no further crit.

[Cube6]

Good job it looks really smooth.

[HieSpike]

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

Here's a wireframe.

And keep those comments and suggestions coming.

peace,
Kane
:buttrock:

[HieSpike]

Hi all,
Here's a render from my animation...
What do you think?


peace,
Kane

[HieSpike]

Here's the image!!!!

[FerdiWillemse]

1 word for you: Awesome!

[HieSpike]

thanks Ferdi!!

Does anyone feel that the burnouts are too strong?

Just wondering...

[kretin]

Very nice work. One of my next challenges is creating a bird and yours is very inspiring.

Very nice animation too. A couple of things I noticed...

Bend the wing bones in more on the upsweep.
Pull the feet up so they're tucked right into the body
The tail doesn't move up and down as much as this, the tail mostly rotates on the boy axis to help manuvering.

Can you tell us more about how you rigged the bird? Do you have bones for every feather? I especially like what you've done with the folded wings, they look great from what I can see :)

[HieSpike]

thanks kretin,
I've fixed the tail and the feet....still working on the upsweep.
I actually did this in Lightwave and I used morph mixer to do the animation on every part of the bird.
What's really cool is that I'm using motion mixer to create different flapping motions and landing and takeoffs and mixing them in premeir style linear editing!!!

This is saving me some major headaches...especially since if I need to adjust the speed of the flight, I can just scale the one envelope for all the morphs!

I'm also still working on the wings tucked position....it's probably the thing that's driving me the most crazy.

peace,
Kane

[kretin]

Great idea using morphs and motion mixer.

I want to make the wing movement use bones, with a healthy mix of joint morph to move the feathers properly. My birds are characters in a video, so I'll need more expressiveness in the wings than morphs will easily cope with. I'm thinking that i'll also include the ability to move the primary feathers like fingers, but gotta see if that's gonna work nicely.

I'm still investigating just how the wing bones in birds work to fold/tuck the wings, certainly the most complex part of a bird.

Depending on how close you're gonna get to the bird, you may want to create the mantle and auxiliary feathers, to bridge the area between the body and wings.

Can't wait to see your next anim...

[grendizer]

wow!! love the colors!! :eek:

[Gregwid]

A little too blurred,but all in all a very nice pleasant picture.Nice colored sky.:)

[rohithtalk]

hai i am Rohith,


i have been through your links of turtle dove, it is realy good mesh.

well if you can help me can you send me some of the refference images of birds


like dove,parrot if any cute looking birds... well i wish you could help me

..

or else you could mail the links of send any attchment files .

yours :bowdown: amdmirrer

[GFX-Arts]

Nice work :)

[HieSpike]

Hi Rohith,

The reference I used for the dove came from some sources online, but mainly from digital pictures my girlfriend took at her work place (where they obviously have doves :). If you give me your email I can send you some of the photos.

peace out,

[Remi]

Nice work....can't think of anything to crit on so i'll leave it at that:)

[ironist]

good job!

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