Flying animals, both past and present, can make wonderful sources of creature design inspiration for games, film, and television. Many of the classic creature concepts in fantasy and science fiction genres include physically implausible configurations that can undermine the believability and impact of the creature design. Using real animals as a guide can help solve some of the challenges of designing flying creatures.Flying Monsters: Illustrating Winged Vertebrates, thoroughly traverses the history of flying creatures, analyzing and explaining the mechanics behind flight for both large and small. The abilities of all flyers give us a window onto other fantastic types of creatures we could invent and get off the ground. With this gorgeously illustrated book, full of content on biomechanics, artists in the concept art field will be well educated to create their most captivating, creative and authentically believable flying beings.
