Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Your favorite "anthro'" figures

Redfern opened this issue on Jul 21, 2015 · 45 posts


Redfern posted Wed, 22 July 2015 at 8:39 AM

 Ooh!  Not only "approval", but but also "motivation" from a moderator!  I'm honestly flattered!  Thanks, Boni!  By the way, I tagged my post with the "nudity" tag because I wasn't sure how the base Melody figure sans pelvic garments should be classified.  Personally, I subscribe to the "Donald Duck principle", that is, a "funny animal" character isn't really naked if covered in fur or feathers, no "naughty bits" are exposed, and they wear at least some sort of "accessary".  But I realize some people do not accept that philosophy.  There are those offended by Porky Pig and not because of his speech impendiment.

Yes, EldritchCellar, I'd certainly count lycanthropes (werewolves) as anthros and I'd welcome them if you wish to present some examples.  SanctumArts' Horde is a truly impressive figure.  I know someone who used the figure extensively in a novel length comic story (literally several hundred panels, maybe over a thousand), depicting it as members of an intelligent spacefaring species.  He employed "magnets" and morph brush tools to give the mesh considerably more expression the the default version.

I've read good things about the Manitou, but I haven't seen that many examples with the figure.  I thought maybe you had some depictions in your gallery, but alas, I see it is currently empty.  Maybe you'll post some in this thread.

Omaha, the cat Dancer?  Heh, heh, now there's a tail, er, I mean a tale.  ;-)  It can be argued that Omaha's creator, Reed Waller, helped jump-start what we now call the "furry fandom".  In 1976 Reed Waller and Ken Fletcher started a fanzine titled "Vootie", a mail-order collection of comic strips by contributing artists focusing on "funny animals".  As the premiere issue stated, "no humans allowed".  As the story goes, a contributing member, Taral Wayne, jokingly observed, "Hey, there's not enough sex in funny animal comics," and dared Waller to draw one.  Inspired by Robert Crumb's notorious "Fritz the Cat", Waller accepted the challenge and drew a one page story culminating with an unnamed cat-girl obtaining, ahem, "satisfaction" from a giant "pen of g*d".  With just a bit of refinement, this cat-girl became Omaha and waller printed her first short story in issue 8.  Waller polished the concept further and in 1981, the first "real" issue of "Omaha, the Cat Dancer" was published.

Now, here's the "kicker".  Reed Waller is, or at least, was a member her at Renderosity and was even a content merchant with a store for a while.  Honest!  He closed his store long ago and I have not witnessed any activity from him in nearly a decade, but his gallery still exists.  His last submission, dated 2004, was his modifying Victoria 2 to look like Omaha and Shelley.  When I first saw it, I thought, "Depending upon his views about 3D, Reed Waller just might like this adaptation of his charcaters.  They look pretty darn close."  Then I checked out the artist's page for "rwaller".  OMG!  That IS Reed Waller!!!  The "founder of furry fandom" works with Poser??!!!  Of course, I had to comment and praise his submission.  He actually responded and his reply was very friendly.  That blew my mind!

For those curious, here is the link.  Be forewarned the characters are topless as they sunbathe by a pool.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=680017&username=rwaller&member&np

Sincerely,

Bill

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!