Bald Eagle - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time is a Bald Eagle Flying.
Head - light sway side to side
Chest - puffed out light compress and bounce
Tail - rotates to offset the chest, light bounce and flap with overlap on the feathers
Legs - light bounce and sway side to side
Talons - overlap and drag from the sway of the legs extending into each claw
Wings - light flap with successive movement up and down and overlap on the back feathers

Camera - parented to the chest and rotates around

Animation Time! - Bald Eagle Rig

Today's Inspiration:
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

- Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/

Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
https://archive.org/details/drawingsofleonar00leonuoft

Program - Maya 2014
http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

Rig - Bald Eagle
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/bald-eagle_rigg

Animator's Bibles:
Character Animation Crash Course
Animator's Survival Kit
Illusion of Life
12 Principles of Animation
Drawn to Life

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