#cool animal anatomy

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It's my right to tell myself I can do just a little animation just for fun just for really quick to do some action and then spend 3 days straight on it

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Walk cycle wip

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being ace means i don't get giggly or horny about omegaverse aka abo but instead become painfully obsessed with details in anatomy and world building

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iron leaguer human au, or as i like to call it....regular sports anime...?

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Basic bodily anatomy of the Pacific Banana Slug, Ariolimax Columbianus.

Art © Me 2023

[navy-leader]

My 2021 art kinda went hard w the angular lines and general stylization of everythin. A single tear rolls down my cheek

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addendum to my irken boobs post:

efurry time someone gives purredatory ((as in carnivorous,,)) traits to irkens i lose 1 of my 9 lives

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ohhh btw snail pics from last night…

dude had his head-wart out ‼️

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hold on let me cook, i might be figuring out how to draw scugs

if you see me staring at a bunch of peoples art styles yes you do they draw scugs super well and i’m still figuring it out for myself

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Bug furries I love you so much but It makes me so mad when people DONT PUT THE MANDIBLES ON THE BUGS!!!! They got antenna for SENSING and big slicing jaws for EATING

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Just launched new high-quality anatomy reference packs to Motion Lab. Designed to help animators study anatomy with organic human movement. https://animatorguild.com/motion-lab.html

-20% launch discount ending soon

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Happy 1st anniversary twst en~!

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I’m tired of being a hater. I’m tired of dunking on a series I know virtually nothing about. I’m tired of being mad about a goofy style.

Anyways.

I’m gonna go become a One Piece fan.

See y’all in 12 years.

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Okay, this has been bugging me for a while & I'm so sorry if this comes off as rude. But I'll be entirely honest, I sometimes feel the depictions of the Wolfbred might lean just a little too close to the animalistic end of the spectrum.

While I'm sure that's part of the fun, something to keep in mind is the fact that they aren't really animals. And not even TP Link truly was either.

He was, first & foremost, a Hylian who was turned into a wolf & back, & for all we know, he was only able to do so during his adventure. Meaning that, yes, his behavior might’ve been a bit colored by the transformation, but I also think that it wouldn’t have left such a huge impact that it would cause him to just run around on all fours or bark at people even in human form.

Similarly, his descendants are people &, while yes, instinct will likely always be a factor, something to keep in mind is that people are typically able to resist such urges & many people very frequently do resist them in the name of behaving in a civilized manner. (Which, I am in no way intending to imply something derogatory, my apologies if it sounds that way.)

Now, I could definitely see the Wolfbred that had been directly & personally bred & experimented on, to display these sorts of behaviors because they would've likely been psychologically conditioned to do so. But by the time of Link's birth, the Wolfbred would've been exiled for a fairly long time, yes?

Although, I would also expect that they would be more prone to such behaviors in situations where they're running on pure instinct even in modern times.

One thing I was wondering, are the Wolfbred's skeletal structure built in such a way that running around on all fours comes more naturally & comfortably to them? If so, then does it actually boost their speed by even a small amount? If it does, does that mean that they are digitigrade? Because, otherwise, they’d only be doing so based on some sort of instinct rather than functionality. (Which, don’t such things tend to get discarded through the generations? I'm not exactly knowledgeable on such things, unfortunately.)

If not that, then it might possibly be due psychological conditioning, which leads to them literally seeing themselves as animals. But, wouldn't that also fad over the generations?

It might be beneficial to look through human history & pick out certain behaviors that fit enough while still retaining that feeling of persondom.

Such as the Inuit greeting known as Kunik, which is between family members, where someone will press their nose or upper lip to the cheek or forehead of another in greeting. More specifically, it is a kiss where an individual sniffs the soft part of another. It is most commonly done by adults to their own children. More specifically, to children that they love. They do it to the cheeks, the belly, the neck, but most frequently, the cheeks, because they are typically the most accessible, especially in public.

Though, my mind is a sieve, you may already be using this idea & I've just entirely forgotten. 😅

Regardless, if not, then I feel like this sort of thing works well with the Wolfbred, though I can see the custom being extended to friends & the members of one's community as well.

Also, I apologize if this comes across as rude. And, again, I am by no means knowledgeable on such things, so I may very well be blowing air out my rear-end. So, please, forgive me if that turns out to be the case.

Don't worry, if I physically couldn't handle the Internet's difficulties of conveying tone and all that then I would just take it all offline. :)

Yeah, a little thing I definitely haven't ever advertised... 70% of my Very Important Lore is just inside jokes with my cousins or random stuff we came up with. This being one of them. I may have thrown a lot of my nearly-complete B.S. of Biology (Genetics primarily) and Certificate of Companion Animal Studies (Anatomy, domestication theories, and social structures of canines) on top buuuuuut I've always tended to prioritize "fun thing to obsess over with family" over making it realistic enough to present to my department as a "simulation". I need to process things externally and the Wolfbred just happened to be the thing that I-

So, long story short: They exist really just because of family jokes, and I throw a lot of stuff that I'm learning in my classes on them because I need to play around with the material and doing this is not as "serious" as having discussions about actual biology. If I wanted them to be perfectly realistic to humans (or perhaps the prevalent perceptions of elves) then it would have been easier to just use humans. But I wanted to use my human knowledge and my animal knowledge at once, and it became a joke.

Yes, there are some anatomical differences between the two. I was going to bring some skeletons to the party, but my eyes say no so let's just use this reference sheet I commissioned. Not a skeleton, but better than my reference sheet just due to +skill

Artist - Foxhatart

There's a few major muscular/skeletal differences between Wolfbred/Hylians. Some of this is due to them having Zonai ancestors from their ancestors being edited to have Zonai traits, and some of it is residual from the Twilight Era. It was decided, really for the lols because it was March 2020 and laughs were needed, that Twilight's children were born perma-wolf as though a human and a wolf had somehow had children together despite his transformation not going to that extent itself. Again, rolling back to the original purpose of a family thing rather than a published and polished AU.

Ears are technically not 100% cartilage. Skeletal muscles (a conscious or "striated" muscle) extend well up into the ear, eventually connecting back to the skull to allow (almost) full range of motion like the ears of the cat. Obviously the ear can't go inward, because the skull is there.

Hips are significantly smaller and slimmer than the Hylian/human hip and the legs are purposefully stunted in length to get them into a proper quadrupedal stance. Hence why hip/leg problems are common. They are faster on four legs (and the stomach isn't quite as vulnerable) so soldiers, guards and hunters often do work quadruped. Although overall preference depends on the Wolfbred in question (and elder preferences are built solely on which is less painful when the joints start to break down, TotK Link's hips just happen to degrade in a way to where 4-legged walking is less painful than 2).

The spine is also stunted, often raised to where a "tail stump" appears.

Thumbs are on the wrists, making the hand lean off the palm. Metacarpus and phalanges are weight-bearing on hand. (diagram below) The feet are technically plantigrade, but the arches are very high and only the toes/ball and heel are physically capable of ground contact.

But now I'm just rambling about unrelated things.

Basically: the Wolfbred are first and foremost little critters for me to mess with, based on BotW/AoC jokes between me and family members and as a way to "test out" what I'm learning in my biology classes.

To counter your apology I will apologize if anything comes off as blunt or passive-aggressive because I've had a bit of a hard time with that for whatever reason this week 😖

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Making thoma dragons but instead I got carried away with thoma physiology based on their already canon design does anybody wanna hear it

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Behold

Alexander!

This is probably the most effort I've put into designing a character and I'm not even done with his outfit :')

The scarf might change designs and colours depending on how his outfit goes, I might also add some extra stuff to it.

Alexander is going to be one of the few side characters that don't have a blessing! He might not have a blessing, but he can still defend himself :)

His specialty is swords and knives (Also throwing weapons).

Yes, he is aromantic, but not asexual!

I spent like an hour straight drawing this

Ok edit: His name is actually Alexis now, and he's Spanish