#fly cycle

Model extracted from ripped files by me, rigged with Advanced Skeleton by me, and animated by, you guessed it, me.

For some reason, half of the eye texture was eaten by what I assume is issues with the alpha channels or something? I tried for hours to see if I could extract the complete texture from the files, but no luck. I ended up re-drawing the rest of the eye texture and I’ve never done something like that before; texturing is the pipeline aspect I’m worst at. Fortunately I had a normals map with the eye shapes to help me figure out what went where.

I feel like this rig is a little more fragile than most of the other ones. The spine IK is iffy and Maya is constantly telling me that there’s some fishy calculations happening when I move parts of this rig. The control hierarchy came out weird and I had to manually add in some constraints. IDK if that’s Advanced Skeleton struggling with the limited joints in these, just a quirk of the bird rig set-up, or both.

The Crobat rig was easy, it’s basically a potato with straight forward FK wings, there’s really nothing fancy happening there.