How Delhi Safari got its animation right? : Bollywood News

A pose library was made for the animators

With some initial tests and feedback from animators on what was working for them in the character rigs and what wasnt, the riggers on board would go back and improvise he rigs. This process continued until the animators were completely satisfied with the rigs. With the quality benchmark of the film set up high we did not want the characters to move around like rigid robots, so we set up muscle controllers on the face and the torsos of the characters. A pose library was made for the animators, and the rigs were programmed using Mel and Python scripts to enable squash and stretch properties on the characters mesh which did not disturb the characters volume. The biggest challenge was Alex, the parrot rig. Alex is a parrot, but knows how to speak with humans. He had feathers where he uses them while expressing himself talking to humans and other animals. That rig took almost 3 months to reach the production quality.