In this scene, I had to add the fish that is talking to Christian Slater’s character and the dead floater at the top (Stripes) as well as the black fish that nudges him. Some of the animation is

This shows about 15 to 20 hours of work so far. I still need to add more secondary feathers to the Wings and Tail, and I need to add some fine hair-like feathers around the legs and maybe the beak.

Update - Replaced the footage with a higher quality render.

 

This is mainly to test some of the morph targets I have set up for his mouth/tongue. I think I might have to work in more emotion into

Original tests. Just putting these up for posterity ;)