African Elephant

This is a rigged and animated model of an African Elephant. The model was design for use in 'Cinema 4D R13' software, but will also function in R12 release.

MODEL- The model of African Elephant consists of: Body, Two Eyeballs, Two Tusks.

TEXTURE / MATERIALS - The textures are UV mapped, with the exception of tusks. The texture maps include: 2 color maps -Gray and Red (4096 x 4096) , bump map (4096 x 4096), displacement map (4096 x 4096), The eye map (1024 x 1024). Material 'Ivory' for elephant's tusks.

HAIR - Both Red and Gray skins share the same gray-brown hair. There are 3 hair objects covering the tail. Eyebrows are combined hair and fur objects.

RIG - The model is custom rigged allowing full control of all elephant's basic movements. Skeleton combines joints (Head, Jaw and Belly) and IK-splines (Spine,Trunk, Neck, Ears and Tail ). Legs have been rigged with IK-chains as well as a pull constraints which allows the fully stretched legs to pull the body.
Morphs were used to control eyelids, and ripples in the ears, as well as to correct or create new deformations in extreme positions of front and back legs, as well as in the belly and shoulders to create more organic movements.

ANIMATION -The 1 minute long (1860 frames) animation consists of dozen ready-made animation loops, as well as transition sequences. Once rendered, these can be multiplied, combined and re-assembled to create the desired animation of your own sequence and specific duration.
(see Motion Source References below).

MOTION SOURCES -
Feeding Loop ………………...…...(frame 0-299)
Looking Right Loop…………..…...(frame 300-424)
Looking Left Loop…………….…...(frame 425-576)
Transition from Stop to Walk……..(frame 577-622)
Walk Cycle-1……...…………..……(frame 623-712)
Transition from Walk to Stop……..(frame 713-762)
Trunk-Up Loop………………….....(frame 763-912)
Charge Loop…………...……...…...(frame 913-1229)
Transition from Stop to Walk……..(frame 1230-1275)
Walk Cycle-2 ( w/ eye blink)……...(frame 1276-1365)
Walk Cycle-3 (faster)……………...(frame 1366-1438)
Walk Cycle-4 (faster)……………...(frame 1439-1492)
Transition from Walk to Run……...(frame 1493-1569)
Run Cycle-1…………………...…...(frame 1570-1595)
Run Cycle-2…………………...…...(frame 1596-1621)
Run Cycle-3……………………......(frame 1622-1648)
Transition from Run to Walk……...(frame 1649-1739)
Walk Cycle ( slowing down).…......(frame 1740-1812)
Transition to Stop…………………..(frame 1812-1859)

FILES - The African Elephant Kit consists of 2 files ( AE-animation.c4d ) file contains the pre-recorded animation, and a clean ( AE-clean.c4d) file ready to be animated or posed for your specific needs. Model, and its functionality are documented and explained in accompanying volume: 'Elephant Driver's Handbook' (pdf) and can be downloaded together with the model.