NOMAD

I have an idea of doing a nomadic humanoid creature with a bird of prey as a sidekick.
I will be using cc base for creature, and would like to try out face and body animations on him later.
Here is my rough blockout, as well as some references it is based on.

Tried facetools and some animations

Nice work - Curious as to how you integrate the bird of prey sidekick - are you entering the rigging side of the comp as well ?

For now I think the bird will be perched on the character, I'm planning to do blendshapes for open/closed wings but rigging is at question, as I haven't done it before... I guess it depends on how much time will be left at this point