Please help! How to animate and rig a single feather.

[sdyer23]

Frank,

Well off the top of my head I can say that maybe you can rig the feather with a single IK Spline joint chain up the middle of the "spine" of the feather. That way you can key in the flexibility of the feather if needed.

As for animating a feather falling, Perhaps the easiest way to do it would be to animate it on a path, make a spline and just mark the path down then just attache the feather, and run it down.

If you wanted to autmate the feathe bending there are a few ways to do that as well.

I hope this helps, let me know if you need any more help or have any other questions.

Good luck!

-Tux

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