Bat-Bird

As part of my experimental project I wanted to have a creature flying as some of the music reminds me of huge wings beating slowly, so I designed something that was a cross between a bat and a bird. I then watched some reference videos of bats flying and copied the key poses from that.

I wanted to use paper cut outs so I made creature bodies and then cut out wing shapes for each key pose so that I could just switch over the shapes while I animated.

Here's the test I did of how the creature would move.