A new feature CG movie “The Missing Lynx” is gaining some publicity by being done entirely in Autodesk’s 3ds Max. It’s the story of Felix the Lynx and his animation friends as they fight again an eccentric millionaire, Noah, to gain their freedon.
For the production of the film Manuel and Raúl chose Autodesk 3ds Max. Animation was done using Character Studio’s Biped, and the quantity and variety of animals as well as humans proved to be one of the main challenges for rigging and animation. One of the most complex cases the team faced was rigging birds’ feathers.
Manuel explains that the feathers located at the extreme sides of the wings are generally used as hands or fingers, to help give bird characters more expressiveness. Due to time constraints they solved the issue by doing two types of setups, one for the acting parts, and another one for when the birds were flying.
I’m guessing the male lynx is the female one’s love intrest? or am I wrong? LOL