Project Summary

My final year project is to script an automated wing rig which will simulate over a given path automatically saving the animator time. Using Autodesk Maya, MEL script and expressions, the rig would let the animator draw a path and the rig would automatically follow the given trajectory banking where necessary and preforming certain wing beats depending on if the rig is cruising, gliding , descending, turning etc. Fundamentally recreating an actual birds in flight. This project is mostly about the rig but I may make a simple bird model and skin to it to make it look a lot nicer.

Picture taken from Bendan Body's Blog Tutorials

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