I spent a day in the park this Tuesday recording pigeon flight footage for reference.
At that time, a lot of material was shot, and it took a lot of time to sort out the useful clips in these materials. But in the end, I managed to sort out the above video materials.
The full video collection can be accessed at this link:
According to these materials, I divided the pigeon flight and landing into 5 stages: Fly, Sub Altitude, Jump, Run and Walk.
Although not all of these stages will be used, after several days of observation and analysis. I have become more familiar with the dynamics of birds, and it can be said that I have learned a lot.
After more than a week of research, I think this project has good feasibility.
But there is one more difficulty that needs to be resolved before the animation production plan can be made: cluster animation. After all, it’s impossible for me to manually keyframe each pigeon.
Next week I’ll be mainly working on crowd animation.