Help with rigging a bird

TheMadArtist

I'm going to be modeling and animating a duck for work (using Max) and the animations that are needed are going to be the duck floating in the water, flying, and dying. It can be bones or biped. The problem I'm coming across is how to model the wings and rig them where they will look natural folded up at its side as well as flying. Everywhere I've looked people have done it with morphs involved and that can't be the case here. Just curious if anyone had any thoughts on it. Thanks!

e_x

Probably want to model the bird with the wings out, and then bring them in after rigging and skinning. Trick will be to make sure your axis are lined up right so that they fold up nice and smooth. Your weighting and edge loops will also have to be solid to allow for all the deformation.

Slum

I haven't really checked this out, but it might be of some use.

http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Tutorials/tutorials.htm

He has a bird wing rigging video down the page a bit.