High detailed model of a western honey bee (Apis mellifera).
Suitable for Film, Advertising, Cinematics, Printing, etc.
Rigged and animated!

Scene specs:

No plugins needed!

Originally created in Maya 2013. For older version of Maya use the .ma file! (Be sure you've checked "ignore Version"!)
Rendering of one 1200x1200 frame takes less than 1:20 minutes. (Rendered with Phenom II 3,7ghz)


* real-world-scale (13.5 mm)
* 6 fur descriptions (head, eyes, legs, abdomen, thorax and tongue)
* mental ray subdivision approximation applied to geometry (faster working and rendering than simple meshsmoothing)
* stripped texture paths
* background image is included

Model specs:

Verts: 19915
Edges: 39296
Faces: 19492
Tris: 38984

Texture specs:

head_color.tif (4096x4096) 48mb
head_normal.tif (4096x4096) 48mb
head_specular.tif (1024x1024) 6mb

body_color.tif (4096x4096) 48mb
body_normal.tif (4096x4096) 48mb
body_specular.tif (1024x1024) 6mb

wings_color.tif (4096x4096) 48mb
wings_normal.tif (4096x4096) 48mb
wings_specular.tif (1024x1024) 6mb
wings_opacity.tif (2048x2048) 12mb

Rigging and animation:

* unnecessary attributes of the controls are locked and hide, to be fast for animating
* premade animations are done with animation layers,so blending and controlling between animations is simple

There are 4 additional animation layers included:

-wings_closed
-wings_flying_loop
-body_flying_idle (frame 1-72)
-cleaning_pose