House Sparrow - BLENDER

Rigged and Animated in BLENDER 5.0

This model comes with several pre-animated scenes to get you started.

The wings are animated using the 3 bones within each. The wings are folded using one of several morph targets.

You can also make adjustments, like spreading the wing tip feathers and spreading the tail using morph targets.

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The main controlling object is the ROOT bone

I have provided several scene files to get you started:

HS-FlyLoop
HS-LTO (Land Take Off)
HS-ZERO (is the name given to my BASIC set up, no animation)

The feet and legs are controlled by Foot-Control.L and Foot-Control.R respectively.
There are 2 'neck' bones, a 'head' bone and a 'lower beak' bone.
There are 22 Morph targets.

The 'Mouth' phonemes are:
-CDGJKNSTYZ
-E
-FV
-LT
-MBP
-O
-U
-WQ

But the mouth can be opened and closed with a bone as well.

The wings are controlled by 3 bones each
and have 2 Morph positions, to spread the wing tips and 4 morph positions to fold the wing

Fold-01
Fold-Complete
Fold-Complete1
Fold-flatToSides
WingTipsSpread-01
WingTipsSpread-02
WingTips-DN
FLightBody

The Tail spread is controlled via Morph target TailSpread, the Tail bone controls position and rotation.
The toes are controlled by 12 bones on each foot.
To fold the wings use the morphs noted above.
The eyelids and eyebrows can be manipulated via:

EyebrowsDN
EyebrowsDN2
EyebrowsUP
EyelidClosed

But if you have positioned the wings by moving the bones, AND you try to use morph targets to fold them, you WILL have some pretty weird distortions that will freak you out.

Don't panic, the solution is to 'zero' out your wing bone positions, as or just before you apply the 'Morph' targets.

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House Sparrow - BLENDER

The model is made hi resolution by using Sub-Patching, so the actual geometry is much less than th rendered geometry.

Real Geometry:
13196 verticies
8682 polygons

Youtube Videos:
HS-FlyLoop: https://youtu.be/kst_cMqnSYw
HS-LTO: https://youtu.be/Fd4x1t58N0g
HS-TT-Wire: https://youtu.be/H8CgO_SIh2I
HS-TT-Color: https://youtu.be/JdUR-hdoKaM

The feathers are geometry so no plugins are required. This also allows the model to render very quickly, espcially when copmared to hair type plugins.

Youtube Samples:
HS-FlyLoop: https://youtu.be/kst_cMqnSYw
HS-LTO: https://youtu.be/Fd4x1t58N0g
HS-TT-Wire: https://youtu.be/H8CgO_SIh2I
HS-TT-Color: https://youtu.be/JdUR-hdoKaM