Don't Feed The Birds

Collaborated with four other artists to create this short film. Fun little piece about a hero, a grandma, and a little bird. As the lead character TD, I designed, supervised, and implemented the film's character rigging pipeline while also sculpting the hero character. Hero character design by Brian Evans. I also animated the majority of pigeon shots in the film.



Quicktime version of film

Stills
















Modeling














Rigging

Puppet style rig design with keyable mesh controls and a few crucial NURBS controls. Face GUI controls based on the box-slider control design by Jason Osipa, from his well known Stop Staring book.





Rotational joints for skin sliding combined with a range of blend shapes allowed for expressive facial poses.




































Hero Rig Demo



Quicktime version