#backwards legs

[fantasy-anatomy-analyst]

How would I need to change the hips of a semi humanoid creature to be able to have the legs and feet bend fully backwards?

I'm having a little trouble visualizing what exactly this means. the hips joints don't really affect how a foot can bend, that's more to do with the ankle joint. you could make the ankle more flexible by modeling it after the ankles of tree climbing primates! humans have lost a lot of the foot flexibility due to becoming plantigrade bipedal creatures more focused on walking than climbing. but primates who live in the trees have different ankle joints from us that allow them to rotate their foot with a much broader range than us.

as for bending the leg backwards from the hip, that's something humans can do already! it just takes practice. if you've ever seen someone do the splits, or gymnasts, dancers, and ice skaters holding their foot up by their head, that is all possible because of hip flexibility and muscle training!

I've found some resources on contortionists for a good reference on how humans can be extremely bendy.

here's an article about it. and a video:

unless you are talking about rotating the leg in some manner? like with the knee bending the opposite way? flipping the leg around so the toes point backwards? like which of these things are we talking about:

(image description: simple sketches of humanoid figures, with no arms drawn. in the first image, there is a regular humanoid figure standing still, followed by two copies of it with a leg drawn in a very pale bright color to show it bending backwards at the hip. one of them is bending the leg backwards in a heel-first motion while the other is bending the leg backwards by rotating it up in a knee-first motion. the second image is the humanoid figure standing still again, but this time with a leg redrawn in a bright color to show it with the knee and foot facing backwards. end description.)

if it's the first one, I don't think you'll need to make many changes to the anatomy at all, just do a lot of studies on images and videos of real humans that show the full range of hip movement. if it's the second one, you're going to need to tackle a lot more details than just what the hip joint looks like. why are their legs backwards? how do they move? is this actually a misinterpretation of the shape of digitigrade or bird legs? birds certainly might look like they have "backwards knees" but that is actually their ankle! they usually have incredibly short femurs and their knees remain so close to the body that they're hidden by the feathers, making the leg appear to have a backwards knee.

and if this is really a humanoid leg turned backwards, and they do move like this, with their foot turned around and all, then we also have to reconsider the shape of the musculature and the whole pelvis and maybe even the spine. They certainly couldn't have a humanoid set of glutes. It's a very tricky bit of anatomy to make this work! might have to fudge a lot of it and just let it look weird, because it does fit right into the uncanny valley and I don't think there's a way to design this and not have it feel uncanny. lean in on the weirdness of it! that would be a really good design for a horror creature, honestly.

(image description: more sketches of a humanoid figure with the backwards facing legs. first is the same sketch of it standing still, then a sketch of it running, and a sketch attempting to work out what the pelvic skeleton would look like, which is mostly just a smaller and narrower version of a human pelvis. end description.)

if you could send a new ask with more clarifying details, I might be able to help out better! hopefully I managed to provide resources and questions that will help you flesh out your idea in a way that works for you! good luck!

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If anyone needs me, I've died and it's their fault

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[skunkes]

almost fell asleep on my parents bed in front of the heater after coming back in from the cold so i drew talon doing the same

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Rusty is maybe just a little bit short for this configuration of a celebratory hug...

But anyway they won a race together yayyyyyyy

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tb to the time i was hunting the legendary buck and was too focused on studying it so arthur could draw it later, that I didn’t notice it charging at him until arthur was flying across the woods.

[bonefall]

When Thunder stays with Clear Sky for a while, does Clear ever insist on referring to him as Thunder Sky?

Towards the end yes, as the final detail to Thunder Storm that Clear Sky doesn't love him. He wants to ERASE him.

If Clear Sky recognizes he's made a mistake in casting Bright Storm away with their child, he's incapable of seeing it was wrong because it was cruel. He wants what he realizes he threw away, because he now sees it has value. He wants to own his oldest son the way he wants to own the entire forest-- as a reflection of his greatness.

Anything that makes Clear Sky uncomfortable about Thunder Storm has to be sanded down. The assertiveness was the first thing, he feels insecure when he's challenged, the child must learn to follow before he may learn to lead.

The second is that leg, presenting a prosthetic as a gift (that he isnt allowed to refuse), because he can't have been wrong about the choice that killed his younger brother-- here is a SOLUTION that simply didn't exist before! Behold how resourceful and wealthy his cats are, compared to your old group. We've fixed you.

(This prosthetic is a clunky piece of shit that is annoying to strap on every day, gets in the way and makes a ton of noise, and itches like hell, but the change in Clear's demeanor is immediate if Thunder doesn't wear it.)

But somehow, Thunder Storm was willing to take all of that. In hindsight, it bothers him that the tipping point wasn't the other two things.

Bright Storm gave her son her own last name. When Clear Sky sent them away and the Mountain Cats permanently split, it was pointed. "My only survivor is named for myself." SHE would raise him, alone.

Bright Storm herself slowly seemed to lose sight of the meaning, encouraging him to understand his father's good aspects, but in the meanwhile it took on a new meaning to Thunder. His mother raised him. He found a father in Shaded Flower. He grew up next to Lightning Cry and Acorn Swoop. Thunder Storm means this. It's the person he made himself, and the love they've all put into him.

Thunder SKY is just another monument to Clear Sky, stripping away the life he lived without him. And WHY? For ego? For comfort?

"What am I letting him DO to me?!"

It wasn't the final STRAW, but it was the tipping point. Once Thunder Storm had this realization, the minute he was not going to budge on something, that confrontation was inevitable. The blowout fight was making reservations.

Sunlit Frost is still the breaking point, the injury from his burn going sour, but I'm going to emphasize the way that Clear Sky only called that meeting in the first place as an abuse game. Thunder Storm knew it was coming-- but it still sickens him that it was something THIS monstrous.

[loopyarts]

(Read left to right :3c)

A one page manga inspired comic based in my strange little cursed Vs bros Au.

Here’s a link https://www.tumblr.com/loopyarts/742616149713354752/my-version-of-what-if-somehow-sanji-got-cursed-or?source=share to the original post for more context on this little Au of mine.

He he even as de-aged little guy with kinda amnesia. Ichiji inner most likely very buried deep within his heart big brother instincts are still kicking in despite well him not using them very much as a wee lad.

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[wingsofwater]

peach pit

[ID : a chubby skywing dragon named Pyrite, who has yellowish-orange scales with a lighter yellow underbelly and dark freckles across her scales, resembling the inside of a peach. she has a crest of dark spines along the back of her neck and on the tip of her tail, antler-like horns, her body is dappled with scars, and she wears a cord around her neck like a choker. she is sitting down, facing towards the left, with her wings held open and an uncertain expression on her face. the background is a teal rectangle with white peach blossoms overlayed on top of it. END ID]