Fluffy thoughts

I've been pondering on this for a long time now. I asked Patrons about it already, but it was a restricted post, so now I'll talk about it with everybody here. So, excuse me not replying to the remaining comments in that other post (I may not even reply to comments on this one, and later do a follow-up post, so please let me know what you think) - I'll share my thoughts here in detail, and consider what everyone said.

I am probably able to give my characters fur. Like full body fur. Y'know, how they should be. They're anthros. Hominid animals. Animals have fur. And while I've always excused their lack of fur with the argument of evolution, like it happened with humans, I never liked the fact that I can't make fur where I'd like to make it. AND NOW I CAN. MAYBE. Skin is nice, but I have two inherently furless characters already, and there will be more. Fur is also nice. I'd have more variety.

And to be frank, I'm kinda dissatisfied with people getting confused about why my characters are furless, and it's kinda unpleasant when someone says they don't like that fact (feels like "hey, this is a stupid idea and you're stupid", while in reality it wasn't even my choice). So I'd also get more followers if I did it the way it's meant to be. That's kinda very important. I think I'd prefer to add fur, but there are pros and cons to it. Imma list those now:

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PROS:

• Proper (or more acceptable) way of making anthros
• The lack of clothes would make A LOT more sense, and adding fur is much more convenient than adding clothes
• Cute, fluffy characters
• CUTE, FLUFFY CHARACTERS
• More variety with furry and furless characters
• Fur can have many more colors and secondary forms than skin
• Hair/fur is actually a bit faster to render than skin
• Skin/anatomy details would be mostly unneeded, therefore less work, therefore new characters a bit more often

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CONS:

• Furry chars aren't as unique
• Skin/anatomy details would be mostly not visible on existing characters
• Fur needs MUCH more RAM to be rendered, especially in more complex scenes, and/or with more characters - this one is serious, and might ruin everything; gotta experiment before actually taking action
• Fur tends to clip into everything; hard to manage - another serious one
• I'd be left with a big bunch of outdated art with furless characters who now have fur, and that would bother me because I don't like inconsistencies like this (remaking them is out of the question)

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I think that's all. While fur has more pros, it has two very serious cons, so it's quite an even match. The only big difference is that the pros are mostly things I like, and the cons are things that mostly my computer won't like.

It's aesthetic vs. tech.

Want vs. should.

It's something I want to do, but I'm still not sure if it's a good idea.

One comment also mentioned that a lot of my art relies on body curvature. That's true, but adding fur won't necessarily ruin that. For example, Uzuri would have very short fur adhering to her body, while Jinjing-Yu and Adreea would still have none. XD The only case where fur would change something so far is Hjalta, because highland cow. All the floof. All of it. I love it. She needs it. Also because Iceland. It's cold.

So that's my 32 cents. I'll probably make this as a journal at dA, too, and ask around more friends. Maybe even make a poll.

IT HARD YO

But in the end the decision may be my own. Let's see what happens.