Wings

3D character animation · August 2026

An elf girl feels her first wings unfold. Ava Ledon, a rigger at SCAD, built the elf character rig and handed it over; I tested it, sent back what broke, and animated on the version we settled on. The acting lives in the face and shoulders, moving from confusion to a held breath to open delight inside five seconds. Animated in Autodesk Maya, with the final pass rendered through Higgsfield, an AI renderer that took the grey viewport into moonlight and translucent wing membrane. The clips below run the shot from blocking to final.