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Hello there, guys!
This is just a thought that came up to my mind.
So, yesterday I saw a roleplay canine character with floppy ears. And honestly, it was the first character with floppy ears I've ever seen /except the trollers and newbies of course/. I'm wondering why don't people use floppy ears? Like, they do, but not that much like the ripped ears, or the back ears. Yes, the floppy ears are not very realistic, but they are given for usage so they are supposed to be used. My question towards you is what makes you not use the floppy ears? Or if you have a character with floppy ears, why not show it to us?
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I have noticed this before. I rarely see charities with floppy ears, myself not using them. Heh, I'm not sure what animals would go with floppy ears though. Maybe some breeds of dogs, and maybe a made up species.
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Uh, I don't know if you're talking about the ears with the tips flopped, or the actual floppy ears....
But anyway, I'm just going to assume it doesn't look very...."dog like" so to speak. Kind of like hot dog buns stuck to the sides of your face :3 (No offence to those that use floppy ears).
Plus, most players on FH are playing as wolves, and I'm pretty sure there aren't any wolves with large floppy ears... That, or in perspective those ears are way bigger than the other ones, which make them look different.
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The reason I think most people don't use the floppy ears is that there pretty hard to pull off in my opinion. I've seen about 2 characters in the time that I've played FH that made a great looking character and they were both dogs if I remember correctly. And in agreement with DevilBurgers most people do play as wolves on FH.
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True, it's not every day you see a decent-looking character with the floppy ears (what I mean by "decent-looking" is that they aren't trolls, just so I don't offend anyone). My guess is that people don't like them, it doesn't look good with their characters, or they simply aren't on a species that has them; which of course, there aren't many species with the floppy ears. I'd say that the only species they are most commonly used on are dog breeds like bloodhounds, bunnies (yes canine model), and sometimes I'll see a wolf with them. I personally like the sharp ears, so I rarely use the others. xD But I do remember creating a character with the floppy ears, and it looked purrrty.
But I'd defiantly like to see more variety to peoples' characters. ^^
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They just don't appeal to me.
My only 'dog' characters do not have them because of this.
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I have to agree with Poh, its rather hard to pull off.
I have a picture of my character Lirit here. She's a shape shifter, depicted here in hound-form. Her appearance is loosely based off of a dog I used to have, Piddles, who was a dauschund and chow mix. (So needless to say, she looked "interesting" to begin with) Piddle's ears were more triangular but these were almost as good and I was putting my own twist on it anyway.
So far this is the only floppy-eared character I have kept. Most of the time if I make anything with floppy ears, they're about half the size I make the other ears, which is huge. Otherwise, if you make them too big they do look like hotdog buns. Thankfully shrinking them and ear markings help make it a little clearer as to what they are.
(http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss266/Whitefang2331/Dog_zps66955c58.png) (http://s582.photobucket.com/user/Whitefang2331/media/Dog_zps66955c58.png.html)
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I think that perhaps if this game had a few more dog rps than we'd see a much larger number of floppy ear characters and etc, infact I think I've only used floppy ears once as a joke because there was a Naruto fan named Kiba, so I made a Akamaru with floppy ears and he pretended to ride my back like the characters from shippuden would. So yeah, only time i've ever used them, and I haven't seen a single floppy ear character in like an year now that you mention it. ._. Scary...
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Most people never use these floppy ears since most of the community roleplays as wolves and "feral" canines, or the ears just look stupid to them. One of my fursonas, Canem, is a goat/wolf demon and she actually has very long, floppy ears so they came in handy.
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I like using the bent ears but not so much the floppy ears.. I've never used them on a character to this day. I think real dogs with floppy ears are cute, but just.. the mesh is so awkward looking. It's angled wrong and just looks weird on here. Maybe if they'ed rotate it abit or- I dunno.
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The only kind of canine I ever really make on here are domestic dogs, so I end up using floppy ears a lot.
However I much prefer to use the bent ears if I can, because the floppy ears look absolutely nothing like a real dog's ears and look very awkward.
I think it would be nice if we could get some more realistic floppy ears, and perhaps some longer basset-hound style ears as well. However with Kovu gone, it doesn't look like that's gonna happen any time soon.
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I have at least two avatars that have floppy ears. It really depends on what kind of style you want for the toon. However, I could understand why floppy ears aren't that too common to see around the game. Well, maybe for one, some people don't like the mesh itself. Often when you re-size or animate the ears, they come out appearing off. Another thing, I would think as mention before by a few people already, some players either find it tricky to work with like floppy ears in general or like to just to play wolf-looking avatars only.
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Well, honestly I'm not a big fan of the floppy ears, since I can't pull them off. Where as, the slightly rounded ears/round-tip ears, I can make those look fairly decent. (I work best with the hyena ears and sharp ears.)
I haven't actually seen any FeralHeartian with the floppy ears, except for n00bs/trolls/etc. and stuff. And, besides one of my friends making a slightly-decent character with the floofy-looking ears.
I'd have to agree with ZombieKitteh and Queen Chrysalis on this one, the mesh looks awkward-and if possible-it could be rotated a bit more to look more realistic.
-Wolfie
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I really don't have any characters with the floppy ears, mainly because the floppy ears don't look too realistic. I have seen a few characters out there with the floppy ears, and it was because they were hound dogs, labradors, beagles, or any other dog breeds with floppy ears.
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I have to agree with Poh, its rather hard to pull off.
I have a picture of my character Lirit here. She's a shape shifter, depicted here in hound-form. Her appearance is loosely based off of a dog I used to have, Piddles, who was a dauschund and chow mix. (So needless to say, she looked "interesting" to begin with) Piddle's ears were more triangular but these were almost as good and I was putting my own twist on it anyway.
So far this is the only floppy-eared character I have kept. Most of the time if I make anything with floppy ears, they're about half the size I make the other ears, which is huge. Otherwise, if you make them too big they do look like hotdog buns. Thankfully shrinking them and ear markings help make it a little clearer as to what they are.
(http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss266/Whitefang2331/Dog_zps66955c58.png) (http://s582.photobucket.com/user/Whitefang2331/media/Dog_zps66955c58.png.html)
Lirit actually looks very nice, at least for me personally. Though I approve all of the opinions. Floppy ears are just not realistic. /I mostly do the sharp ears, normal ears and ripped ears./
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I think the floppy ears just look weird unless put on a well made pup. They look like hotdog buns to me and I have never got them to look right on my characters.
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i have a character with floppy ears, he is not a dog though or a wolf but i think they look pretty good.
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/285/9/d/gwynn_1_by_okami02-d6q66px.jpg)
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i have a character with floppy ears, he is not a dog though or a wolf but i think they look pretty good.
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/285/9/d/gwynn_1_by_okami02-d6q66px.jpg)
This is what happens when you use them RIGHT! :D No Hot Doggie Buns Here!
Those Glasses... Look like Harry Potter's too X]
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I have only one character with floppy ears.
(http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l527/justarandomperson1/Feralheart%20Characters/screenshot_10172013_204332025_zps88b6bfbf.png)