Eagle Sketches

I think Davids getting slightly behind with designing our characters. He wanted to design all three but times running out so ive said i would try and help. He are some initial sketches of the Eagle in designs for him.

The eagle isnt in the film for very long, so i dont think we need to over complicate his design and so long as he looks like an eagle it will be cool. The texture could be where we get some different colours and design within him.

I have tried designing him characatured, such as the image to the right he looks more like a chicken than an eagle, and i referenced to chicken run for this design in particular.... I don't think it will work.

Below i have also looked into wing design, shall we give him straight wings or make them a bit more complicated? The only thing i would be worried here about it the rigging of the eagle and making sure there arent too many vertices to paint weights to.

These two eagle concepts were done in photoshop to test some colours to begin with and researching into mongolian eagles, they tend not to be black, so theses are out the window.....