Animal Characters The More Human-shaped The More Dressed

[seymour747millplane]

This thread is for discussion and pictures on the level of dress of human-shaped animal characters versus that of non-human-shaped (but still bipedal and manually dexterous) animal characters and between female ones and male ones of both types.

[pollux]

Well, I prefer anthropomorphic characters that still somehow resemble their original form, like those ones in Zootopia do. I also use such a character design in my own sci-fantasy/cartoon universe. But animal faces and feathers or fur on regular human bodies with realistic proportions, look kind of creepy to me. That's how most "furries" create them. Those guys take the whole "talking animal" stuff way to serious, f.e. they often sexualize such cartoon characters. The worst of them are "Otherkins", because they don't even think of cartoons and comics when it comes to talking animals, instead, they believe that they're zoo people IN REAL LIFE!

[seymour747millplane]

Take me the Disney Ducks for example. Launchpad McQuack and his family (pictured left) are more humanoid ducks, so they wear full outfits, complete with shoes. Scrooge McDuck (pictured center), Donald Duck, and the other Ducks and McDucks, Daisy Duck, Ludwig von Drake, Webby Vanderquack, Drake Mallard, Magica de Spell, Lena, and Gosalyn are like ordinary ducks in their body shape, albeit with either (atavistic) arms or arm like wings. So they are half-dressed in the pants less or bare bottomed way. Scrooge wears spats and Daisy wears high heels. Donald Duck originated in a Silly Symphony cartoon called, “The Wise Little Hen.” He is pictured with the equally half-dressed, pants less Peter Pig. In the cartoon, the main hen character sounds like a hen speaking English, Donald waddles and sounds like duck speaking English, and Peter sounds like a pig speaking English. This is different from the Funny Animal inkblot (white face or muzzle) and “evolved inkblot” (peach face or muzzle) animals like Mickey (mouse), Minnie (mouse), Oswald (rabbit), Fanny (rabbit), Ortensia (cat), Homer (cat), Pete (cat; originally a black bear; looks species ambiguous), Goofy (dog or dogface; originally Dippy Dawg and in the first cartoon, an old dog with glasses), Clarabelle (cow), and Horace (horse; originally a quadrupedal plowhorse), whose species factor little into their character. Donald Donald Duck’s son Donald jr. (from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) is even less anthropomorphic; he has little duckling wings.

[argus]

On the note of Peter Pig, it's worth noting that while he and The Three Little Pigs still bear anatomical similarities to their animal kin, Later pigs to appear in both the duck and mouse universe would have fundamentally human body frames (Argus McSwine, Percy Pigg etc.), and thus warrant complete clothing, whereas Peter and his cousins are still more animal than man (in appearance anyways) and, as such, do not need to be clothed since they have no human "parts" to reveal.
I hope this was helpful for anyone confused on the hows and whys of furry clothing.

[RobbK1]

Apr 27, 2018 4:41:04 GMT seymour747millplane said:

Take me the Disney Ducks for example. Launchpad McQuack and his family (pictured left) are more humanoid ducks, so they wear full outfits, complete with shoes. Scrooge McDuck (pictured center), Donald Duck, and the other Ducks and McDucks, Daisy Duck, Ludwig von Drake, Webby Vanderquack, Drake Mallard, Magica de Spell, Lena, and Gosalyn are like ordinary ducks in their body shape, albeit with either (atavistic) arms or arm like wings. So they are half-dressed in the pants less or bare bottomed way. Scrooge wears spats and Daisy wears high heels. Donald Duck originated in a Silly Symphony cartoon called, “The Wise Little Hen.” He is pictured with the equally half-dressed, pants less Peter Pig. In the cartoon, the main hen character sounds like a hen speaking English, Donald waddles and sounds like duck speaking English, and Peter sounds like a pig speaking English. This is different from the Funny Animal inkblot (white face or muzzle) and “evolved inkblot” (peach face or muzzle) animals like Mickey (mouse), Minnie (mouse), Oswald (rabbit), Fanny (rabbit), Ortensia (cat), Homer (cat), Pete (cat; originally a black bear; looks species ambiguous), Goofy (dog or dogface; originally Dippy Dawg and in the first cartoon, an old dog with glasses), Clarabelle (cow), and Horace (horse; originally a quadrupedal plowhorse), whose species factor little into their character. Donald Donald Duck’s son Donald jr. (from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) is even less anthropomorphic; he has little duckling wings.

Launchpad doesn't look anything like a "duck" to me.  He looks a lot more like a pelican.

[argus]

Apr 10, 2018 14:43:54 GMT pollux said:

Well, I prefer anthropomorphic characters that still somehow resemble their original form, like those ones in Zootopia do. I also use such a character design in my own sci-fantasy/cartoon universe. But animal faces and feathers or fur on regular human bodies with realistic proportions, look kind of creepy to me. That's how most "furries" create them. Those guys take the whole "talking animal" stuff way to serious, f.e. they often sexualize such cartoon characters. The worst of them are "Otherkins", because they don't even think of cartoons and comics when it comes to talking animals, instead, they believe that they're zoo people IN REAL LIFE!

Okay, first of all: Only a small but vocal minority of furries are perverts. I consider myself a furry but I am firmly attracted to humans.
2. Otherkin don't believe they are PHYSICALLY the animal, that would just be delusional. Otherkin identify with their kintypes on a MENTAL and/or SPIRITUAL level. For example, I identify with Pigs, but I don't look in the mirror and actually SEE a pig.
And really, where does a brony get off saying ANY of this?

[pollux]

Nov 4, 2018 1:00:21 GMT argus said:

Okay, first of all: Only a small but vocal minority of furries are perverts.

Sure.

I am firmly attracted to humans.

Well, me too but I also like anthropomorphic animal or what you may call "furry" characters. Webby from the NewDuckTales is cute. If she was some years older I would marry her! But unfortunately, she is not real and if I try to imagine it, I think a cartoon character in "real" would look kind of creepy.

2. Otherkin don't believe they are PHYSICALLY the animal, that would just be delusional. Otherkin identify with their kintypes on a MENTAL and/or SPIRITUAL level.

That too sounds pretty delusional to me.

For example, I identify with Pigs, but I don't look in the mirror and actually SEE a pig.

PIGS? Seriously? Of all animals, why did you choose pigs?

And really, where does a brony get off saying ANY of this?

Bronies are so much of early 2010s. Also, why should I be a Brony?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Nov 4, 2018 21:05:41 GMT pollux said:

Bronies are so much of early 2010s. Also, why should I be a Brony?

Perhaps it was presumptuous of Argus's, but it does seem like a plausible conclusion from your user-icon. 

[The KKM]

Pollux and Argus, please take it to PM-