Build a bird

Two spheres, a pointed beak, mirrored wings, and a tail tilted up. A full character build.

Ambitious — Ready for a longer build 6 steps

Video coming soon — the written walkthrough below is the whole build.

Written walkthrough

The bird is a full character workflow: stacked masses, mirrored features, and a Nudge-phase finishing touch. It’s the first ⭐⭐⭐ card in the Learn tab for a reason: nothing in it is new, but everything in it is used together.

1. Turn on Mirror

Mirror on, ↔ left–right. Wings come in pairs.

2. Stamp the body and head

A Sphere for the body, then a smaller Sphere tapped onto the top toward the front. The head sits high and forward, which is most of what makes it read as a bird.

3. Beak: grow it, point it

In Grow, tap the front of the head, Out once, then tap the stub’s end and Pinch it. Sharp.

4. Wings out

Tap a patch on the body’s side and press Out; the mirror grows both wings at once. For swept-back wings, hop to Nudge afterward and Tilt each wing’s ring a notch.

5. Tail up

Tap a face on the body’s back, Out twice. Then the finishing move: in Nudge, tap the tail’s ring and Tilt it up a notch. A level tail is a log; a tilted tail is a bird about to do something.

6. Feathers and eyes

Fill the body, contrast the wing tips, orange beak. Then Paint two dot eyes. Dot eyes forgive everything.

Give the tail a two-pose waggle on a 🔁 Loop and the bird never sits still again.

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