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Post by cyberpaladin85 on Feb 22, 2005 21:25:01 GMT -5
On a lot of artwork that I've seen, I tend to see four fingers on each hand of a furry character, rather than the five that we have. So I was wondering why do people draw their characters like that, with only four fingers?
Also, why do people draw hair on their furry characters? My guess is that it's because it seems to be asthetically pleasing, or perhaps to make their character more human. To follow up on that question, do certain species look better with certain color types of hair than others?
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Post by Marcus Starkiller on Feb 22, 2005 21:36:18 GMT -5
Well, for the first question, I would say it is because most animals have four toes or 'fingers' on each paw, so that's what i think. As for the second question, that is a tough one.
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Post by BingFox on Feb 22, 2005 23:30:53 GMT -5
mainly because of cartoons like Bug Bunny and such, and to be more human for that second question
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Post by Kalinda on Mar 9, 2005 1:28:03 GMT -5
A couple of thoughts/observations on the subject of furry anatomy. As far as I can tell, the 'three fingers and a thumb' thing originated with the cartoons and comics of the thirties. The Disney characters of the time had three fingers and a thumb. Later, all the characters in the Disney comic books had the same type of hands. My guess is that everyone else followed along because Disney was the 'big dog' at the time. Why they did it is a good question, I know from reading about the life of Carl Barks that Disney didn't want any humans in their comics and cartoons, he got in quite a bit of trouble for adding human characters to a couple of issues of Donald Duck. My guess it that the hands were a way of defining the characters as non human.
Interestingly enough, if you look at the characters in 'the simpsons' they have four digits on each hand, although in the couple of episodes where god appears, he has five...
The hair thing is definitely a way of making furries more human. I've heard it referred to as a 'cheap' way of making female anthros look more feminine as well. I don't know that I agree that it's 'cheap' but it is an easy way to show which characters are female, particularly if the female in question isn't, um... Well endowed...
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Post by Marcus Starkiller on Mar 10, 2005 16:33:45 GMT -5
Sounds good to me. A couple of thoughts/observations on the subject of furry anatomy. As far as I can tell, the 'three fingers and a thumb' thing originated with the cartoons and comics of the thirties. The Disney characters of the time had three fingers and a thumb. Later, all the characters in the Disney comic books had the same type of hands. My guess is that everyone else followed along because Disney was the 'big dog' at the time. Why they did it is a good question, I know from reading about the life of Carl Barks that Disney didn't want any humans in their comics and cartoons, he got in quite a bit of trouble for adding human characters to a couple of issues of Donald Duck. My guess it that the hands were a way of defining the characters as non human. Interestingly enough, if you look at the characters in 'the simpsons' they have four digits on each hand, although in the couple of episodes where god appears, he has five... The hair thing is definitely a way of making furries more human. I've heard it referred to as a 'cheap' way of making female anthros look more feminine as well. I don't know that I agree that it's 'cheap' but it is an easy way to show which characters are female, particularly if the female in question isn't, um... Well endowed... |
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