This is the rigged and animated owl we used in our animation for the title sequence of a Dutch TV show "Klass Vaak" in 2009.
The blend file is an animated loop you can see in (old) article on Blendernation http://tinyurl.com/a3a7gfe
Since then it's just been sitting on our HDD so I decided to release it into the wild. (pun intended!)
Modelled by Tristan Lock
Feathers, Rigging and Animated by Jeremy Davidson
Lit, furred, shaded, textured and composited by Matt Ebb.
Wow this is the first OWL i see in blendswap, very good, and thx for sharing it. :)
How do you animate it? I mean the flight animation is great but I want to do other things with it as well.
Im with him, Id like to be able to pose it in dfferent positions, and do things like turn its head and such.
The feathers look amazing! Must have been a hell of a work to do it... The rig looks pretty complete! Just would be nice a simpler way to control it. Congratulations to the creators!
I have seen several animals animated, and this one, I find, goes right to the top, it is close to looking like a live one, nice work
I think the ? is where are the rig drivers etc? With the cursor in the 3D window press Alt key plus h and all that is hidden will be revealed. Hope this is helpful.
Lied Sprookjes van Klaas Vaak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-LIuYh1ih0
Looks Awesome. I can't wait to use it in my scene. Thanks heaps!
This is really a marvellous model! I'd like to use it for our action group protecting a local recreation area (where a long-eared owl lives) - but Blender 2.9 crashes upon loading the data. I assume it has to do with the rigging in 2.6 which is not compatible to 2.9. Has anyone successfully transferred the model to Blender 2.8 oder 2.9?
Amazing, thanks for sharing!