Author Topic: Floppy ears (Read 7415 times)

Smilodoncat · « **Reply #10 on:** October 15, 2013, 03:52:44 pm »

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.

darkknight · « **Reply #11 on:** October 15, 2013, 03:55:38 pm »

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.

Wolfie_Lover · « **Reply #12 on:** October 15, 2013, 05:04:16 pm »

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

Lady_Alizarin · « **Reply #13 on:** October 15, 2013, 05:49:31 pm »

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.

TheFeral10 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 15, 2013, 10:00:21 pm »

Quote from: Silhouette on October 14, 2013, 05:20:34 am

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.

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./

rustheart · « **Reply #15 on:** October 15, 2013, 10:06:43 pm »

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.