Sorry about the image size. It's somewhat challenging to squeeze everyone in and still make out any details. I could have stacked them in rows, but whoever didn't end up in front would raise a stink about me playing favourites, and with a skunkette in the group, it's better to be safe than sprayed.

But I digress ....

I've used a low-resolution variant of this Poser figure for almost a year now. In fact, her first appearance (as Eric Schwartz's Sabrina) was in Ironbear's Halloween thread last year at the Virtual Tavern. After a fellow member asked for a generic version of the figure, I spent a couple of weeks retooling her.

Furrette now has a higher-resolution mesh (although still lower-res than Posette), over fifty morphs, a fully poseable tail, seven texture sets (cheetah, lioness, rabbit, skunkette, squirrel, tigress, and vixen), additional tail props, and a few accessories, along with two dozen MAT/MOR/VIS files. She works reasonably well with Posette poses, and can even wear some of the standard P4 clothes.

She isn't perfect by any means, but she's as good as my current modeling, character creation, and UV-mapping skills can make her. If enough people show interest, I'll make her available as a Halloween treat. No tricks.

is there they "boy" counterpart availible ? It will be nice too ! Thanks LAurent

Wow! I'm definately interested!

The Fox is the cutiest one-Love her and the picture loaded very fast. I like the way you lay this out. I like your picture posts, very creative and you have a good sense of humor. Leah

Love is Grandchildren.

I haven't created a male version of Furrette, although she does have flat-chested and eyelash-length morphs. I intend to add a few more features before deadline, so perhaps I'll try a hip morph also.

For Turtle:

Fox Walking (MPEG format, 1.29MB)

More examples of characters.

For some strange reason, I think the squirrel resembles David Spade.

Sleeping kitty.

Grumpy kitty who didn't finish her beauty nap. Or perhaps she's just fuming because someone swiped her wig while she was napping.

One of my early water-reflection tests in Poser 5.

Laurie didn't enjoy this photo shoot.

"I could be standing right there, on the shore, perfectly dry," she said, "and you'd still be able to see my reflection in the water!"

"No, stay perfectly still. I'm going to try adding an Atmosphere effect next. Shouldn't take more than five or six hours to render."

do you even have to ask LD? these figures aare brilliant, Hell yeah I want em.

These are sooooo awsome! I was hoping they haden't disapeared into the mist;D Perfect compliment to Lemurtek's gang too! Poser gonna be coughing up furballs now!

I'll second what wdupre just said. The sooner the better.

I like it! I love it! I really really want them :) Please please please! And Thank you :)

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These folks are adorable!! :-)

I'd use them. --lb

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See, L D, I told you people would like them! I foresee A whole new series of renders. You know, they'd be a real hoot within the "Render Wars" forum. Hmm, I wonder if I should join the "act" by releasing own furry fem'? I'd base her loosely upon Lt. Mzzkiti, the title character from my online strip. I might follow up this thought within the "Modeling" and "Character Creators" forums. I have some questions about the strengths and weaknesses of various modeling tools, not the programs, just the tools within the programs.

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This is amazing - oh yeah LD, I'm looking forward to this!! :] Fish

These are EXCELLENT!! well done. As mentioned, these will go great with Lemur's characters, not to mention several others as well. 2 thumbs up to you L.D. And yes Redfern you should release your stuff too, it's nice to see some new unique characters for a change. Kev

I'm a Schwartz fan from way back, so I love these. Great work.

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I am very interested they look great. Wonderful work on them. Wow. :)

Thank you all. I'll have her posted by Halloween Day, at the latest, with additional add-ons to be released later.

Fans of alternative comics might want to visit the Character Creators forum. _dodger has a sneak preview of an upcoming freebie: Cerebus the Aardvark.

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She thought nobody would like them!!????!!!??!
We LOVE'EM!!!!!!!!!
Loved them since the first post on these little cuties months ago!!!!!

This model is fantastic! :)

Charles

What a wonderful menagerie, LD. Q

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lol do we get laurie's attitude too? hah.. very cool character indeed. Kinda torn betwen the rabbit and the fox as the best ones... very nicely done :) BT

OH... this definatly looks good.

Outstanding work, LD, she's got great style and charm, not to mention versatility! Regards- Lemurtek

Ooh ooh, please please PLEASE! She's so CUTE!

Wow! Awesome Character Design Work!

Oh, almost forgot, Bill, I agree, you should release your furry as well, the more the merrier! Regards- Lemurtek

oh this is good! i hope it does end up as a freebie!

She will. I could post her right now, actually, but I want to provide a full set of MOR poses, add a couple more morphs, and paint an eighth texture. She'll be available either late tomorrow or early Halloween Day.

My current distribution plan is to have the figure, props, and utility poses in one package, and divide the character textures/MATs/MORs into four separate packages of two characters each. This should make things easier for people with dial-up, because the entire thing would be almost 10MB.

For all you early adopters, you might be interested to hear that I've tested Furrette in Poser 5, and she works fine. I'd recommend getting the latest Service Release beta, which fixes the transparency falloff bug (Furrette has transmappable lashes and whiskers). The crosstalk fix is particularly helpful with the tail and other full-body morphs. Furrette's cartoon eyes aren't poseable, but with P5's Material Room you can shift the eyeball textures horizontally and vertically using the UV_offset values; they can even be animated.

Oooo...Yes Please...us furry lovers will most DEFINATELY be interested !

how very cool! :)

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do more bewitch me than when art is too precise in every part

Wow! These look so cool! I cant wait!

It took longer than expected to create the additional MAT/MOR poses and bundle everything for distribution. Partway through the process, my computer decided that it didn't like WinZip. But after a reboot and some quiet time, it's feeling much better now. I've added an eighth bonus character to the collection; you can see a preview image of it here. Anyway, Furrette is posted in Free Stuff now, so let's see if we can crash Penguinisto's server as a holiday prank, eh? I've divided everything up into the basic files and four separate character packs (two characters each), so dial-up victims can download Furrette and Co. in smaller, easily-digested chunks if necessary. Happy Halloween, everyone. Link to Free Stuff

These look great! Already downloaded them all. I'm sorry I missed the original Ironbear thread. Is it still posted? Link?

And Redfern of Mzzkiti is here too? Wow. What next, Eric Schwartz?

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These are superbly superb :) At times like these I'm glad I don't read the forums regularly because I would never have lasted until now to get them :) I surely hope you will decide to do the boys to go with them (canines?) as that would make the set complete :) Steel

I'm sorry I missed the original Ironbear thread. Is it still posted? Link?

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I'll create wolf, coyote, and other canine characters in the near future. I might try some muscle morphs to make the figure more masculine, also. And I think I'll do some reindeer characters for Christmas (Wynter's antler freebies would look great on Furrette).

Just one more question before my poor little mind disappears in another frenzy of the pics I am going to make with these :) What hair did you use in your pics? so I can use it too :) Or to phrase it a different way, what hair for a hare? :) No respectable teenage girl goes out without her hair. I'm going to have to put my Babies with Attitude on the backburner, I just GOTTA use these lovely ladies in SOMETHING :) Steel

In all of my Furrette renders to date, I've used the standard Poser 4 "plastic" hairstyles (which look surprisingly good on cartoon characters), along with Kozaburo's transmapped Kyoko hair, Alice hair, and PonyTail (available at Digital Babes.

Some rescaling and repositioning of the hair props is necessary, but it doesn't usually take much effort. You should be able to use almost any hairstyle with Furrette, with a little work.

Well, if you're going to continue tweaking the mesh, may I suggest a "big toes" morph? It'd be a simple way to get a more "cartoony" look for certain characters, and it shouldn't be too tough to implemement.

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"Hello, Clarisse."

The feet really don't have enough polys to pull it off (I tried making rabbit feet earlier), but I'll keep your suggestion in mind for the next major version of the figure, which I'll release next year.

Other improvements in mind for Furrette v2.0:

Poseable ears and eyes
Better hands and eyelids
A tongue
A fully-modeled torso

Hey LD, I told you everyone would like it. Thanks a bunch for doing this. If you'd like, you can post the buster and babs renders I sent you, to show everyone the versatility of this character.

Great, Great work...Love 'em. May I humbly suggest a possibility if you're contemplating additions ? An anthro equine ? My Furry Char's are horse and donkey ...and I'd love to to be able to portray them...my newbie Poser skills aren't up to the task yet.

I'll think about equines. I won't guarantee that I can create such a face morph with the current mesh, but I'll think about it. I'm fairly certain I could manage the hooves and tail. I wouldn't mind giving it a try, if only to create fan art for Flinthoof.

Speaking of anthro equines ....

Lemurtek has a pair of zebra-folk among his freebies over at 3-D Arena. They're based on the P4 Male and Posette meshes, and have hooves, tails, and digitigrade legs. The heads are mostly human, unfortunately, but maybe you could replace those with the P4 horse's head. The Poser 4 manual describes the process, using a bull's head to create a minotaur as an example.

You might also want to pay a visit to Vista Internet Products. Debra Ross has an anthro unicorn mare, Rhianna, in her store.

Hey LD take a look at this!
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I did very little in the way of getting the clothing to fit. The hair is the conforming curls from Poser 4. Great figure and very posable. Thanks!

L.D, This is Faaan-tastic. I think you did crash Penguinisto's server, however. I went back for the packs 2-4 and the pictures were x'd out. Wasn't it "Wella hello, Clarisse" ? keep up the good work! You are a credit to your species and to the poser community ! chees, - TJ

thats cheers not chees

I saw your pic earlier, DMage. She looks great in that outfit!

lhiannan and danidh have done some renders, also. Furrette is just incredible with postworked fur.

I was being facetious about the server-crash remark; I certainly don't want to cause any problems, especially since Penguinisto hosts files for several other Poser artists.

But I'm simply amazed at the number of downloads in such a short period of time. When you add everything up, that's roughly 7GB in only two days.

I didn't think anyone would get around to doing a furre poser model. It's pretty good. But why do they all wear t-shirts? Anyway, keep up the good work. ^_^

The T-shirt is part of the torso geometry. It can't be removed. Furrette is based upon a low polygon figure made for a video game. Obviously in the first person shooter, she would not haved stripped so there was no need to make the shirt as a separate object. Little Dragon raised the face count and tweaked the mesh for public distribution. LD stated that if he ever does a second version, it would possess a true torso as well as other enhancements. See entry # 44 for details.

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I spent all night downloading this stuff, and it's well worth it. What praise can I give that hasn't already been given? These characters are a cartoonists dream and I can't believe they're just being GIVEN away, especially after the hard work you've put into them. A male version would be a good addition (and yes, I would pay if necessary). I'll try and come up with a picture or two if I can stop drooling long enough.

Okay, I stopped drooling long enough. Here's a picture featuring Furrettes in trouble. (of course they'll win, Cannon-Chan is with them.)

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Hi These are just great! I have been looking for characters for my children's book series for a long time and I think these will do perfectly. I have a character I use named Patti and she travels through a magic looking glass along with her Pal siamese cat Pooka. They get in all kinds of trouble taveling to magical places. I think these characters would fit in perfectly! Thanks so much! I would love to talk to you about allowing me to use your characters in my books. They would just be perfect! Thanks!

My turn to play. Hers a little animae cross over Furblazers LOL. 100% poser no touch ups. I love these figures!!!

piano player Thanks LD for the render tips. I guess til Mr. Schwartz gives ya permission ill have do with inspiration and a close second. so pop in your favorite piano piece sit back and imagine. ;o) thanks again for creating these.

I've uploaded version 1.10 of Furrette to Free Stuff. She now features an EasyPose tail, a fifth eye texture (brown), and a male full-body morph (Furraldo).

A fifth character pack (reindeer) is also available, just in time for the holidays. Read this thread for details.

Happy Holidays L.D!! I hope you have a Joyous Halcyon, and a happy New Year, - TJ

Hi everybody! Well I have began making the characters for my new children's book. Of course, the main characters are my human friend Patti and her Siamese cat Pooka. But for a new spin on things I have created some Furette characters for her to play with. So far I have created the Bunny character and two skunk characters. As you can see by the picture, they are all the same size as the millenium preteen girl. I had to downsize them so they would work. Now since they were children themselves I had to dress the poor babies. I used Serge's pants and a skirt to dress them. I found a baseball cap in my props along with some bows and ribbon. Let me know what you think? I also need names for these guys. The two skunks are twins, brother and sister. The bunny likes to tend her garden. So if any of you have suggestions on names let me know. I would love to hear them. Thanks Little Dragon for allowing me to use your wonderful characters for my book.

I'm glad you found them useful. Name suggestions: Rabbit: Belle Skunks: Oreo and Onyx, Bonnie and Clyde, Yin and Yang

I love the names. Sometimes you just gotta get anothers opinions. I really like the names. Thanks. Will let ya know when I finish the illustrations for the short story. Thanks again. I am glad you like what you see. Kathy

These characters are terrific! I'd like to use them, but the links do not work. Is there another place to download and install them? I'd really like to use them.

ck on little dragon and send him an email. that would be your best bet.

All of my Free Stuff items have been restored. Have fun. I've added a conforming hairstyle for Furrette, for those of you still keeping score.

Any update on Furrette 2.0? Please? Pretty please?

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I can only assume you missed this recent thread. Enjoy!

Sincerely,

Bill

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Yes, i missed it, Thanks!

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I have been out of the rift for awhile and just now coming back to the 3D world. So I may be a little behind. I took a look at the new furrette a great task indeed. Outstanding! Can you tell us when she will be released?

Hello, Little_Dragon.

I discovered your wonderful characters too late, when the monthly bandwith limit is already exceeded, so I couldn't download anything...But I will leech EVERYTHING as soon as it will be possible.
1000 congrats, Furette is simply breathtaking ___

By the way, by any chance your work is inspired from Furcadia? ^__^ (I am a feline "furre" when my free time allows me to, so..there's another reason for me to love your work)
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do the furrette textures fit furrette 2?

Alas, Angelmotes, they do not. Inspired by the "flayed" design the Millenium 3 figure template, Little Dragon designed the maps for Furrette 2 similarly. They are not an exact match, but Mapper was able to easily align LD's vixen maps to fit Victoria 3 (at least the body portion). Sincerely, Bill

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aw was wanting a tiger tex for furrette2 to go with a remaped shirt and pants i am wanting for a biker type sceen. Furrette 2 is a awesome figure surprises no props and just the 1 cothing pack but guess furrette stil a bit new

well still think a tiger would look good as the skin but here is a quick render of the sceen i was working on... i do so many and just click file, new in poser... nice work going to waste well i wanted to share this render with the furrette fans

Lookin great!

I agree with Mapper ... that's a good look for her. I'm planning to build a jacket and coat, but I doubt I can model as much detail as the commercial items.

The tiger texture (among others) should be available sometime this week.

Sorry I don't have a better render of it at the moment ... I've been very busy lately.

Hey, don't worry about not matching the polygon-count of the commercial stuff. I like the slightly simplified look. Incidentally, if you've tried mapping the P4 halterneck dress, you'll know the hassle that detail at polygon-level can be. Bump maps and displacement maps can let you have visible hems and seams with a lot more flexibility.

These files reallyneed to be popped up into another place where they can be accessed when your bandwith fills out here.