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That's as seamless parts of the unified whole. When you have an almost entirely anthropomorphic character, and with this much busy fury, then sticking a human face and hands on it is actually more dissonant than going with at least furry hands and face. It doesn't have to be an inhuman face, but... Wait, now I remember. Champions Online does not have a middle ground between human face and grotesque animal face. I was thinking more along the lines of our Feline face, or a human face coloured something like the fur, but that game just doesn't have it.|
Originally Posted by Lazarus
One of the points that was brought up in the other tails thread was that the face and hands mark the point where a character can cross the line from "cute monster girl" to "furry" and plunge into the uncanny valley.
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To point, it doesn't have to be an alien face to fit, but when it sticks out so much, this creates an even stranger look, because, as I said, it looks like a person in a fur suit, which I'm sure wasn't the intention. And again, it's not a question of body parts BEING human, so much as it is a question of body parts FEELING human even if they are logically evident to not be. As with most artwork, it's less what the artwork actually is and more what it represents in our heads.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It doesn't have to be an inhuman face, but... Wait, now I remember. Champions Online does not have a middle ground between human face and grotesque animal face. I was thinking more along the lines of our Feline face, or a human face coloured something like the fur, but that game just doesn't have it.
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Then again, our 'feline' face is still quite monstrous/evil looking.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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It's "mean," in that the eyebrows are are down, so it looks like it's scowling, but it's not monstrous. In fact, all it is is a face with a wider nose and a cat lip. That's about the extent of it, which is what makes it perfect for anthropomorphic characters that still remain largely human-like. It doesn't even have a snout to speak of, not even a short one like a cat would. In fact, it's more a texture thing than a face structure thing that makes it inhuman. In Champions, you just don't have that. Normal face options have something like four choices - one human, one nose-less, one zombie and one "geometric" that's basically a cubist's take on the human face.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
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If you want a feline face, you have to use the animal heads and go with the tiger one, which is... Beyond dangerously furry, put it like that. You can't use hair with the animal heads, so that's one MAJOR strike against keeping it human-like, and the tiger face is actually that of a sabre-tooth tiger, with a large snout and long fangs protruding to below the chin. In fact, because genuine cats have faces that don't differ from male to female (not to the casual observer, anyway), you end up with a head that removes the face's gender identity, and that's a WHOLE BIG STEP over the line, and usually a drop face-first into the uncanny valley.
And I blame Champions Online's development team for not giving characters a better selection of faces. Currently, they have a selection of FACE.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Will bushy tails cause the inevitable Cat Girl vs Werewolf Crisis in CoH?
Have Cat Girls been working behind the scenes all along to keep bushy tails out of the game intentionally?
Hmm...
This thread makes me feel so bad.
My catgirls are usually just ears & tail. Sometimes, using Large Boots/Gloves (or Banded Gloves)...tight versions...to simulate fur covered paws.
I've never actually done a full fur covering the whole body toon (except in RP power swap with SG)! I almost feel...ashamed! Okay...not really. But...still...now i feel the need to make a fur all over!
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The BrandX Collection
Most of my chars are catgirls, tail and ears otherwise human.
If there were options for some nice paws i would probably use em for some chars, but not all.
Paws from PSU would look kinda keen.
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This is my "furred" girl. She's supposed to be half-Kryn (Gold Digger cat-like race...sort of...major spoilers here, but we eventually learn that the Kryn, Atlanteans, Elves and Trolls were all replaced by a race that used to serve a big-evil. Said race has since forgotten this and are, for all cultural intents: Kryn, Atlanteans, Elves and Trolls). Kryn are cattish, but without tails, so she doesn't have a tail:|
Originally Posted by BrandX
This thread makes me feel so bad.
My catgirls are usually just ears & tail. Sometimes, using Large Boots/Gloves (or Banded Gloves)...tight versions...to simulate fur covered paws. I've never actually done a full fur covering the whole body toon (except in RP power swap with SG)! I almost feel...ashamed! Okay...not really. But...still...now i feel the need to make a fur all over! |
Gave her human ears since she is half-human. She actually has the "monstrous fur" under the robe, but really sort of moot.
So my only "fur" looks like a gray-skinned human....
Thrythlind's Deviant Art Page
"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math
Well, as long as we're sharing, I might as well share both of mine:
Valeena:
and Pandala:
That's all I have in the six years I've been here, and the lack of decent animal parts is a large part of why that is. I don't really have any decent ideas for new characters at the moment, so it'll be a while before I use this.
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Oh, and also Murumets, but he's kind of obvious:
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I'm mostly interested in the female body more than the sexual act, I suppose.