Collecting Brid Projection

In this project I once again went back to the creature idea (Sorry Golan, I know you said it would be tough but I was really enthusiastic about this idea when I thought of it. Making characters is tons of fun!). Surprisingly, this project has a lot of elements from Dave’s creature although we didn’t know it ourselves. In my project, a bird has built a nest on top of an eraser on a blackboard. The nest is small so the eggs (made from box2d) keep toppling out and the bird frantically collects them. The bird is eventually able to put them all in the nest, however I purposely designed the nest so that the eggs cannot all fit at the same time. Needless to say, the eggs continue to drop and the bird collects frantically with small, humming bird – like movements.

UPDATE:
The collecting bird strikes back! This time her nest is in a location that is hopefully more considered ^^;

Video:

Some of the things I need to go into and rework would definitely be adding an avoidance variable to the bird. I didn’t realize how weird it would be for the bird to pass through the eraser until I was actually projecting. However, I do like the small ‘world’ or ‘environment’ that I have created around that eraser. You can’t help but feel bad for the bird as you see it’s progress; it fumbles around and knocks over its own eggs in an effort to save them all; it’s hard to not only marvel at it but also hard to not pity it.