Implementation

In the animal world, when seeking to avoid conflict, animals make themselves as large as they can and sometimes become very grand in gesture in order to express energy and control over that energy. In this way they communicate that they are not worth the effort to attack. Therefore, I sought to make the bird large in size and actuate its wings upon detecting teeth. In addition to this, I implemented “eye contact” to the best of my ability. Eye contact in the animal world is very aggressive. Especially when the animal is threatened, it is focused on the potential attacker. For this reason, the owl’s gaze follows the individual closest to it in its presence. With more time, the owl would be constructed more convincingly as an owl with a larger diversity of movements when threatened. In this way, the owl would more closely approximate reality.