"Think a lil' 'nip might mellow him out?" by Redfern

Poser • Science Fiction • posted on Jan 18, 2009

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Since I first saw GhostofMacBeth's early morph tests with Lycanthropos, I knew his efforts would be perfect to depict a more faithful interpretation of Larry Niven's Kzinti. Who are what are the Kzinti? Rather than leaping to Wikipedia, let's jump straight to the source, author Larry Niven's personal domain: http://www.larryniven.org/kzin/ (Use the legend to the right of Niven's photo to navigate the various Kzinti focused sub-pages.) The physiology section describes them have having orange fur with yellowish stripes, but the gallery presents a majority of images, some by the renown fantasy artist, Larry Elmore, with the "rat-cats" bearing more terrestrial tiger markings, so at least I'm erring in good company. This is actually a reworking of an earlier composition, one I created shortly after Lycanthropos and Gareee's additional morphs debuted. One can view it here: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1734466 Now, with GoM's morphs and textures, specifically the tiger motifs, I have hopefully improved the character. As before, I used Little_Dragon's "Bushy Tail" for the rat-like appendage and the Mil' Dragon's wings for the fin-like outer ears. Sincerely, Bill

Comments (8)

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mdc100

7:18PM | Sun, 18 January 2009

Very good.I like.I think my little pussycat would like to.

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thekingtut

7:33PM | Sun, 18 January 2009

Kzinti are just big fur balls that love to get scratched behind their ears. Good job.

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DivabugDesigns

9:58PM | Sun, 18 January 2009

Terrific!!!

efox01

10:32PM | Sun, 18 January 2009

Now that's what I call a kzin! :) I played the Ringworld PC game back in the 80's. I think the corrects forms of address for something like that from non-kzin are hero, master and sir. :) I loved the game. I read one of the books in the Ringworld series but I've forgotten most of it. There was a kzin cross over in the Star Trek the Animated Series. I seem to remember that Larry Nevin actually wrote that episode. I may be wrong. If you saw one of them smiling it means one of three things: The kzin is very angry; he is laughing because he just killed one of his siblings with a lethal prank; or he is hungry and you smell like food. I might dig up the Ringworld collection and read the books again. Your render is inspirational. I think I'll leave the nightlight on tonight. G.

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