I wanted to try and infuse some of the eagle underlying anatomy into the design of the hunter itself, at this phase I still thought about going with a regular eagle. It wasnt until during the final phase that I decided to make it more interesting.
During this phase I was playing around with essentially the same design but changing the proportions in order to convey different personalities I ended up going with the first version.
Burkitshi - Golden Eagle Hunter
The Burkitshi is a golden eagle hunter based from the Mongolian eagle hunters. I wanted to see what I could come up with by bashing a few simple concepts together.