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October 29, 2010
Suggester's words: Realistic Wing Tutorial - P.1 by ~Sunnybrook1 is an amazing tutorial that would be useful to anyone who wants to make a pair or real working wings for a costume or for fun. I was very pleased to see that the deviant took her time to research and make the wings as accurate and realistic as possible and also being thorough in her methods. This tutorial would make any bird lover happy in their heart to see something like this.
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Realistic Wing Tutorial - P.1

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youtube Icon 3/20/10: My first video showing wing-movement ~
Little Pixel Wing - Black (right)  8/12/10: Made some corrections for spelling & clarification~ And wow, I've underestimated the amount of information...I've gone from 2 tutorials to 5. :O_o: make that 6...^^;
youtube Icon 10/19/13: My second video showing two wing's movement~
 youtube Icon 8/5/17: Disney animator describes the Mechanics of Bird Flight - watch for the useful description of how wings are built from 8:40 - 11:31.

Pixelist - FTU Block Bullet NEW Walkthrough Arrow left  Mockingjay Wings - Concept to Design



Little Pixel Wing - White (right) For those with screen-reading issues, here is the above tutorial in text-based format!

Part 0 - MATERIALS
Part 0.5 - TOOLS
Part 1 - CONCEPT :pointl: YOU ARE HERE
Part 2 - FEATHERS
Part 3 - HARNESS
Part 4 - ASSEMBLY
Part 5 - COVERTS
Part 6 - ARM-COVER WIP
EXTRA -  RESULTS: See what OTHER people have made following this tutorial~ :la:

The Feather Atlas
Slater Museum of Natural History

Bird Wings (Tutorial) by Key-Feathers
Bird's Wing Anatomy by unkraut
Bird Wing Tutorial by TheAntimonyElement has TONS of good links~

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Wing Design/Tutorial © Sunnybrook1
Model wildmage007
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Hey! I'm a little confused about the length of feather and shaft, I'm trying to do pigeon wings and I have the measurements, I'm just confused on what to do for the cardboard cutouts. Do I make all primaries and the same size and just give them bigger shafts? Sorry I'm stupid. do secondaries also get shafts??