@lmckenzie, Yes, AI and simulant / replicant tech has certainly always fascinated me...

...even just in the context of it as a metaphor for the human condition. How our individual consciousness, that we encapsulate and cherish in the conceptual Victorian specimen jar of the ego, is in so many ways just an echo of the world we have been born into and inhabit.

I so often feel that all of our technology is just some kind of perverse metaphor for our metaphysical potential.

I should say, of course... many thanks for the critique Primorge and I'd very much welcome more of the same!

I must say this forum challenge idea of yours has been a real challenge... I've been to-ing and fro-ing on a number of ideas. Yet to settle on something, to be honest...

I have, however, purchased several more of Littlefox's Plushie range... to go with Rufus, whom I found had been bundled with Poser :)

It's no mean feat to try and shoe horn BB's shaders onto those Plushies... I can tell you.

Well, not exactly shoe horn... blend BBGlossy2 with displaced fur more like. Not sure why I'm doing that... but it seemed like a plan. I seem to have been caught up trying to develop a wool carpet shader, for Lulubelle's fleece. He he... been playing a lot with just that actually.

But materials aside... the actual scene idea for the January Forum Render Challenge theme of "Furry Renders!"... the composition and content has been the hardest part to nail down...