From my experiments I took these three images that I liked during the colour pallets. I wanted the bird to be red and I thought the red fur worked well with the model; I also liked the contrast between the purple and blue mixed fur and the brown fur worked well. Because of this I am still unsure which one I would use, so I shall ask my group mates. But after speaking with them on Friday they are doing 2D animation and having my 3D animation in the background. I think that if I can not make this bird work then I might do the animation in 2D.

I felt that the bird texture I had originally was not up to a high standard and I wanted to re-do the texture by added fur to the bird. This is because birds have fur on there bodies and feathers on their wings and I believed that's why my bird did not look right. My texture was too tiled, So in Maya8 I used the fur tool to begin trying out tests on the bird model. as you can see from the pages below, these are some of my tests (making the fur shorter and ticker) also a range of colour pallets to see which colour suited the bird better.

This model has both the original texture and the fur tool applied. I like the idea of being able to see the feathers underneath the fur but I also think it doesn't work. So I applied the fur without my texture and I used the colour black Lambert as a base colour, and then used the fur.

The bird went from this image below to the images above to make the bird more realistic, I found the texture I had was to tiled: