Flamingos

Aug 7, 2022

This week was Flamingos. This was our first weekly challenge, and I have some experience with Blender so I picked rigging and cloth sim as specific things I wanted to work on this week. I bit off way more than I should have and had no time to work on lighting so that’s a bit of a rush job. But I was able to get a decent generic Flamingo model done with an inverse kinematics rigged neck to make it easier to pose. And then I was able to drape a canvas cloth sim over a stack of boxes and over some wagon train style struts. Managed to get the cloth to sew to pinned vertices to create the effect of looking tied down.

Enjoyed working on this. Idea of them being used as pack animals came to me immediately when my wife mentioned what the theme was. Annnd I learned I need to temper my expectations a bit or I’m going to keep rushing the lighting at the end.