Bird Flight Tutorial

clockadile:

This is the best tutorial of how to animate bird flight you will ever find.

And I am hella excited to have found it again. I stumbled upon it ages ago, and have thought about is frequently since but hadn’t found it again until now. It’s not just interesting for animation uses, but for anyone looking to draw wings, or who has an interest in how birds fly.

Before this I’d always assumed that birds push the air back behind them on the down stroke to push them forward, but really they push their wings forward on the down stroke to generate more lift by forcing more air over the wings.

It’s a great look at the mechanics of flight and how to approach such unfamiliar movement in animation.

Bird Flight Tutorial