wings and feathers

[smoke]

I don't know if this will help at all, its a tutorial for Rhino but maybe you can transfer it to C4D...
http://market.renderosity.com/~rhino/darkworld/wing/Wing_Tutorial.htm

[Caravaggio]

Personally...
I think I would actually box model the whole thing out, gradually tapering it down. You'll need a lot of horizontal divisions to form individual feathears towards the bottom and for it to curve inwards. I wouldn't put too many vertical divisions in, you'll probably need one or two towards the top to emulate the bulge of the bones/muscle in the finger/arm of the wing and a few towards the bottom to vary the length of the individual feathers. Just don't model each feather within the wing, feathers are thing enough when layered that I think that could all be bump maping unless you want to get *really* close. Unfortunately I'm not sure where you'd get a feather texture, anyone?

[LucentDreams]

can't believe I forgot this when I saw you at the school yesterday, this should help a fair bit, as well do a search for fethers here on cgtalk, over the last year if not longer, there was a thread in the texture forums consiting of links to some really awesome feathers, and another one much more recent.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/labelle_jannis/Flight_Tutorial/index.html

[geoffr]

There was a tutorial on the cow about a bird in flight

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/labelle_jannis/Flight_Tutorial/index.html

Hope this helps

[enigma kahn]

thanks for all your help, now all i need is a faster comp -_-() but all of this will definatly help

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