Red-legged seriema in its habitat. It will flee a car on foot at speeds up to 25 km/h (15 mi/hr) before flying. In one conflict between two birds, they jumped at each other feet-first, keeping their balance by flapping. This species nests on the ground or in a bush or tree up to three m above the ground. In the latter case adults jump into the nest rather than fly. Red-legged seriema The red-legged seriema ("Cariama cristata"), or crested cariama, is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family (Cariamidae), included in the Gruiformes in the old paraphyletic circumscription, but increasingly
Creature animation earlier, in 1989, the pioneering digital animation studio Industrial Light & Magic created a water creature for the James Cameron film "The Abyss". Again, not knowing how a water creature might move, considerable effort was required by the animators to imagine how such a creature might perform and behave. Creature animation Creature animation is a specialised part of the animation process which involves bringing realistic animals and creatures to life. It is often distinguished from character animation, which involves breathing life into animated characters and creating the illusion of thought, feeling and emotion. Creature animators create highly realistic motion in