Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38464016-20190227064301/@comment-27950421-20190325011929

Alright, so I watched the black harpy video, the biggest problem you have is the actual anatomy of the foot and wing.

I'll focus on the foot since I don't do avian things very often. You treated in much the way that you would treat a human foot. With the foot being the main mass and the toes as little add ons.

For humans that's how it is, you could cut off all the toes but the big toe and the pinky toe and persons ability to walk wouldn't change in the slightest.

For birds and dinosaurs however it's an entirely different story.



Most of their foot doesn't even touch the ground. The ankle is held up from the ground giving that third rear facing joint. That's actually what the whole reverse knee is when you look at some birds. It's their ankle.

Most of their walking surface is their toes and the only part of their foot that touches the ground is the balls of their feet. You can't draw the toe like it's a projection from their foot. You have to draw them as their seperate part of the body, much how the leg is from the hip, or more aptly like how the fingers are from the hand.

The feet of lizards and crocodiles are even closer to hand. Like literally just draw hand with a thumb that isn't apposable.