this was my submission for my digital animation and game design final. we were allowed to make any type of visual effect we wanted. i had just recently finished guillermo del toro's cabinet of curiosities on netflix, and the final episode involves a murmuration. i love seeing these in real life and wanted to see what i could do to make my own system.
i modeled the birds in 3ds max,
node based textures made in unreal engine 5.
made the murmuration effect using niagara within unreal engine 5.
sound design and music composition was done with ableton live 12.
no usage of ai.
40-60 hours of work.