How Wings Work -- A reference for creature props

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This is a quick little animation comparing anatomy to photos and to live film so people can easily create "real" looking wings for their projects.

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• how
• wing
• wings
• work
• bird
• feather
• fly
• avian
• bone
• bones
• flight
• primaries
• costume
• prop
• movie
• fursuit
• film
• reference
• drawing

[joerock00]

I have a lovebird and I want to get her or him a buddy does it mater if it's male or female? For that mater how can u tell if it's a male or female? By color?

[gryphern]

@joerock00 Love bird males and females look A LOT alike. Even a veterinarian might make a mistake (unless they do a blood test to be sure.) You can sometimes tell by behavior. Female bird may try to sit on objects, like beads or balls acting as though they're eggs. Male birds may try to barf up food to you as a gift. In some species the female will tear paper and stuff it into her tail feathers. Female birds can get really GRRR about THEIR TERRITORY, so be slow introducing a new one.

[GeenaKay]

This is perfect for the project I'm working on (I have to model and rig a phoenix to be animated in 3D) and this revealed some things I didn't know about wings. Thanks! (And Rudy is absolutely ADORABLE! Such a playful personality!) :D

[gryphern]

@GeenaKay As a note, the bones in an out-stretched wing don't go perfectly straight out like I showed. I exaggerated for illustration purposes. Even a perfectly straight looking wing has a slight bend in the elbow.

[kmelalzate]

Poor Bird, it should be in the jungle, not to make awfull videos.

[gryphern]

@kmelalzate Rudy was in the jungle a long time ago and should have stayed there. In the 1970s he was imported into the United States after being wild caught according to his previous 3 owners. He was a very fat, sick little animal when I took him in years ago, but now he flies every day, goes on trips, has his own room, two indoor trees and has his own outdoor aviary. If you want to euthanize him because he is so bad let me know, and you can heartlessly kill a happy birdie.

[gryphern]

Yeah, cats are super bird killers, and even if they just bite, their pointy tiny teeth kind of inject bacteria, so what they don't chew up they infect to death. I had 3 cats when my bird was little, and only one of them was allowed to be out and about when the bird was. The bird loved the cat and would run up to it and yell "kiss kiss!" then proceed to smooch it on the nose. The cat also followed the bird and made distressed yowls when the bird went somewhere "illegal" like the coat closet.

[xxTheemodragonxx]

Your bird is very beautiful

[pheartehcat]

Super. Incredibly. Useful. In art, they portray the extended wing with a nearly concave shape for the "hand" when it's extended and a convex shape when folded, and I got really confused as to how that would be possible, since bones don't...bend. So thanks for this a lot. It'll make building my wings incredibly easier.

[umar6419]

I remember when i slapped a parrot hardly when he tries to bite me... Yo..

[missorigamigirl]

I LOVE YOUR BIRD! 

[macallyworship]

oooh i love that bird

[tek23ken]

great presentation, u made it easy form me to grasp how wings work . which it great cause i am in the middle of modeling a 3d chicken for a project i am working on.

[nightwoofking]

at 2:19 you start laughing funny

[MrEckelpeckel]

Is it just me, or does´nt this reminds a lot of the movie Rio? :P

[CandiedSnails]

I love your bird. O:>

[dreamheadstudio]

Thx for the good reference video,and btw you have a very cool bird there :)