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Realistic Wing Tutorial - P.1
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3/20/10: My first video showing wing-movement ~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.
make that 6...
10/19/13: My second video showing two wing's movement~
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.
NEW Walkthrough Mockingjay Wings - Concept to Design
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
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~
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~
Already finished your wings? Please fill out this questionnaire , I'd love to hear about it!
Wing Design/Tutorial © Sunnybrook1
Model wildmage007
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Comments: 198
That should be pretty easier design-wise actually. Bat fingers roughly align with the human fingers, sta.sh/0h15bvxi0kq
The glove approach would be in your favour for this one. Extend the fingers to replicate the bones, then connect them with ideally a thin but leathery fabric.
I'm not cosplayer so I'm not able to give you advice on that part though ;;
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I am wanting to try that, too. I want to see if I can make one after I'm done with this project. Giant working bat wings would be sooo awesome!
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Definitely~ Tempted to try it myself, but time/money/concept are lacking at the moment
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Quick question, I've started getting stuff together for these but have some limited time to work with them. And I am making two pairs of wings, so to make this easier for me I'd like to make both sets of wings the same size even though the people wearing them will be slightly different heights.
How tall are you/your arms and how big did you have to make your wings (mostly the longest one). I'd like to just be able to go on that, if you'd think it might work
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Ah, I'm 5'8" tall, my arms are about 2ft long from my body, but I made the longest primary feather 2.5 ft long, so my wingspan is about 5ft per wing but 10 feet together~
Does that help?
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Oh great... now I want to make wings 
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Hiya there! These are absolutely amazing :3 A friend on tumblr linked me here.
In your opinion, do you think it would be possible for one to make webbed versions of these? It'd be excellent for many things I am wanting to make.
Thankees!
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Ah, with the right kind of stretchy fabric this pivot-point concept would work GREAT with webbed wings, I think - haven't had an opportunity/funds/materials to try it out myself but I imagine they'll be simpler than feathered wings since it'll all be one big piece of fabric from body to leading wing edge, no worries about filling the gaps.
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EEE Thank you! *starts on design*
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This is absolutely amazing. Extremely complicated, but well worth all the effort and time. I see that you have arm cover in progress. Would a cloth covering that you can slide your arms into work, or would that limit the movement? I'd like to take a crack at these beauties.
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I agree, and thanks! And while my attempts at cloth covering has been unsatisfactory (to myself, anyways - bah wrinkles!) don't let that stop you from experimenting - you may succeed where I've failed in that.
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This is amazing. I may start crying happy tears. *sniffles* :')
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Thanks for sharing, it is exactly what I will need for my owl costume
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Oooh, owls!
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I will....one part is already finished...now I'll try the wings
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do you take commisions on wings? I would fail at making these
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That is my eventual goal, just need to finish working out the costs for materials and the HOURS of time it takes to make them. 
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ah, awesome! I guess just let me know.
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This is awesome! Totally innovative--I can't believe this design hasn't been stolen and commercialized. How long does it take you to make a complete pair of wings? I would love to try and make this as a costume for my Acting III class, but I don't know if there's enough time for me to try make them.
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It depends - once I know the concept worked I was able to bust out one of these wings in about a week, but I didn't keep track of the hours so it is tough to say. During my next set I will DEFINITELY keep track of (a) times/hours spent during construction, and (b) average/specific price and quantity of materials.
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Very impressive instructions, well thought out and described.
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Im so glad this got a DD, these wings are absolutely stunning, and I'm glad they got the attention. Well deserved. Wonderful solution to realistic wings.
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THanks so much! This is the only good help I could find for my reshiram costume. YOu have saved my from a lame pair of wings!
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Ok, the Slater Museum link no longer works so here is the updated link to the Wings and Tails image board. [link]
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Thanks a bunch! 
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OH MY GOD.
THANK YOU FOR THE REFERENCE :'D
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all have to try this tutorial sometime I always wanted to know how I looked with actual wings and always love to draw them so hopefully when I have time I can try to make some <3 
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Wow, this is amazing! I love all the researsch you put into this in the first place. Also, I own you a big thank you for bothering to write that whole process down for others. Thank you!!
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Also, when cutting the feathers, when it comes down to the feathers that are less than the generic template of 27.5", do you just cut them to their specific length? For example, I have 2 primary feathers that're 17.5 and 16 inches.
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Sure, though I didn't plan that far & wasted fabric cutting them down to size later - only cut what you'll need~
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Neeeevermind I did it and it worked fine(:
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Oh my goodness, this is so helpful! Thank you so so much for posting this. Also, nice ideas with keeping it as accurate as possible.
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This is actually very helpful on how to 'draw' wings also! thanks for posting!
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About how much would all of this cost? I'm on a budget, you see. D:
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Well, it's cheapest if you use/substitute materials you already have, so improvise as much as possible - still, I find myself spending between $50-$80 for everything (just guessing, haven't really sat down and added everything up
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I am a bit confused when you get to the part of getting the measurements from your wrist to the tip of the feather (or vice versa). Where on my drawing am I to measure out? Or is it a matter of a set measurement from the wrist to the tip of the wing? Any advice?
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Well the drawing is supposed to be to scale (for example, in MY drawing I turned actual inches into all the little lines between the inches on the ruler, 32nd's I believe...then turned THAT into centimeters for more accuracy on the wing/feather sizes) so when you draw the feathers/wing-silhouette around the arm you measure from a spot a bit below the wrist on your drawing (aka 'pivot point').
Did that help at all?
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My goodness, I am so sorry that I missed this reply! Thank you so much for responding back to me, I really do appreciate it. This is one of many projects that I am planning to create in the next few months, and I'm so sorry that I missed your reply. Thanks again for the information!
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Thank you for sharing this! I will definitely try it out <3
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This is sooo cool!
Thank you so much for creating what I was looking for!
I was hoping to create some owl wings, but had no luck when I tried out my own design.
Hopefully this one will work!
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Your wings are amazing!
I hope you don't mind, but how much did it cost you to make these? The only other tutorial I've found that is -cough- better-cough- than yours cost nearly $90.
Thanks for the tutorial! I may actually try this!
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A "better" wing tutorial?! Link, link!
Also, while it depends on where you get your materials, the costs are similar - my current estimate is about $80 (for both wings?). But I still need to finish the arm-cover, so we'll see how much goes into that (trying to keep it simple, so aiming for not much)~
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So far, it looks pretty doable, considering I can't find half the parts for the other XD
Here's your link (by better, I mean that I could easily adapt to dragon wings if need be) [link]
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