The very same lioness appears is in his image.
Lioness silhouette professional#
Daniel received the news from professional wildlife photographer and long-time role model Greg Du Toit as they watched a mating pair of lions after sunset. It felt like the stars had aligned for a brief moment.
Lioness silhouette series#
Daniel is very proud and to be a part of this series and of a much larger movement for the continued awareness, and support of real, productive conservation initiatives that bring about positive change.ĭaniel heard of his achievement whilst out on game drive. Not enough people realise the trouble they are in and Remembering Lions aims to change that. In the last 25 years lion numbers have declined by half! With only 20 000 left there are fewer lions alive in the wild today than there are rhinos and elephants. By spreading the word, one is helping that aim. The aim of the Remembering Wildlife series is not only to raise funds for wildlife conservation but to also raise awareness of the dire plight facing so many species. The whole wildlife series has raised £460,000 ($600,000) to date. Over £163,000 ($205,000) has been made so far making it the third most-funded photo book ever on Kickstarter.
The competition boasts amazingly high standards and received more than 2400 entries, but more important for Daniel is the money that it raises solely for conservation. This is a great honour and achievement as the books are a collaboration of the best wildlife photographers in the world and all of the proceeds go towards lion conservation in Africa. Daniel Bailey’s image “Back-lit Lioness Silhouette” came second in a competition for a feature in Remembering Lions, the 4th book to be published in the series. A series which was created by wildlife photographer Margot Raggett after she was moved to take action upon seeing a poached elephant in Kenya. You can see the mouth shape before I adjusted the blendshape (first picture), after (second picture), and the reference I used when creating the blendshape below.We are proud to announce that one of our rangers has recently had one of his photographs chosen to feature in the Remembering Wildlife series of coffee table books. In the end, I also adjusted her mouth blend shape while yawning because the rig came with a horrible deformation when rotating the yaw open. It took me a while to combine the cycles and clean everything up. I also created some flight cycles and made them lift from the ground just to fill the scene a bit more.(I choose to animate a crane rig because I´ve researched several birds that live close to where lions live and I found out that one of them were cranes)
Lioness silhouette movie#
For trying out animal behavior I chose to make the lioness lie down on this typical movie cliff so that she appears to be higher in the animal's order. (I also used this tool to make the shake look a bit more realistic after animating the throat wobble manually when the lioness yawned.)Īfter the cycles were finished I combined the trot and walk in one scene and animated the transition between those two speeds. When I was finished with animating the muscle bounce manually I added some physics to the bounce controls with the help of 'The Bro Tools' which made the progress of refining everything so much fun. Adding some bounce to the bounce controls around the chest, stomach, and throat made it look even heavier. Realizing where muscles and fat bounced as the lioness moved at different speeds also helped me when it came to animating everything in the most realistic way I could and also helped me add some weight to the animation. I also drew some arrows in different colors when the weight changed from one foot to another. It made me see the silhouette of the different poses even more. I spend so much time perfecting the weight on the cycles with my current knowledge and feedback from outside the school as it was hard to always get very good feedback in school when it came to Animation.ĭrawing the outlines of the lioness's contact and passing poses helped me so much when studying my references.
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