Bird renders, trying to finish wings

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Hey all,

This is my first ‘solo’ blender model. I did the ‘introduction to character animation’ tutorial, and thought I’d give this a shot.

I am trying to make a bird: sort of giant anthropomorphic raven / eagle (probably try both by swapping textures).

My problem is making a decent looking set of wings. I can get a sleek ‘fairies’ style of wings in that they are too flat and ‘artificially shaped’ (which I have now), or a dragon / bat style. I’m having trouble making it look feathery: I did try extruding a set of feathers from the back of the wings, but it just didn’t look right.

Also, a quickie: where can I find how to UVunwrap my models in blender? I have done it before using Lithunwrap (exporting to .obj), but Blender seems to do a lot of things within it so i assume it can UVmap.

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yeah blender has some really nice uv mapping functionality built into it- if you have the cash I would recommend you get “the essential blender” book, that covers everything. otherwise do a search for some video tutorials on the topics you want- there are literally hundreds of them covering all sorts of topics, im sure you will find one on uv mapping

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Nah, would rather not spend money on blender books. I’m just asking if there’s a standard tutorial to learn this stuff off of: I found the bsod intro to character animation extremely helpful, and wanted to know if there was a similar one around.

Has anyone got advice on how to finish the back of the wings though?