Didn’t get to do any work on the budgie 3 Jan 2007. However, I did get a lot of texturing and adding of bones done late on the second, I just didn’t post it. Here are some of the highlights.

I added the strips behind the head, which you can see much better in the picture after this one.

I also added some “feathery-white” textures based on a picture I saw online of a blue budgie.

My wife gave me the idea to have some budgies star in my next short, my first true short after understanding everything I learned from " Penguin Flight" and " Hello World". So I started work on modeling them last night around 2200.

At first I figured it would be very hard and was getting quite discouraged. But then, I figured out a shape that seems to approximate the bird enough for a cartoon. After all, I’m not making a scientific textbook or something. I still have things to add (such as eyes) and texttured materials, but I think I’ve made some amazing progress.