Crane Bank

We were hoping to get a piggy bank for our 3-yr old daughter, but there wasn't any at the store we tried. This contest showed up and I felt the timing was too perfect to not dive in! I decided to make a crane, as I wanted to make an animal with a neck long enough to be a coin slide. I also liked the idea of making an animal that we sometimes see at home (sandhill cranes, or whooping cranes). I thought it would be fun to make a looping coin slide, but the complexity of holding everything together and testing with 3-d printing was too much, and I decided to keep it simple. I wanted to try my hand at (somewhat) low-polygon modeling, and this is what came of it. Can be scaled larger or smaller, but size of hole is modeled to fit around the size of a toonie (28mm diameter) at 100% scale.