Meet the fakes.

Time for NURBS. These simple nurbs shapes were created by drawing a CV curve following the basic outline of the classic Don Featherstone plastic flamingos and extruding a circle along the path. Then I just scaled the CVs to fit the shape and added a cheesey pink Blinn. I'd like to add a little yellow and black to the beak, perhaps a little black for an eye. More painting.

The legs are poly cylinders and are parented to the bodies. The stiffness is great~ I have the pivots centered at the base and they fall over beautifully! I'm looking forward to knocking them over.

I think they're successfully "fake". They need to contrast with the 'real" flamingo character. I'm still not sure how this will playout because in some ways the fakes look more real than my character.

I think the story will still work.

I'm going to have some ivy spiral up a leg.