Transformation content is so easy to stumble upon in popular media, from cartoons to movies, it's everywhere! All you have to do is have that fixation upon it to be led down the rabbit hole!

I think for me at least, the desire for that stuff in the first place is just imagining yourself as something you're not, and how that must feel!

And going from the tip of the iceberg with more normal mainstream TF's to the bottom of the iceberg with the really weird, lewd stuff is just a matter of finding new interests, being open to the idea of even more weird stuff (even if it's gross sometimes), and (for me at least) having the more normal stuff lose appeal.

Sometimes all it'll take is seeing something new and odd to really give you a spark in your mind to explore it further and expand upon it!

Just wanna say I really enjoy your UDTF content! :3

Thanks! And I agree!

Sliding down the TF iceberg continuously is a fun ride! You never know what you'll find!

I really have no idea what got me into transformation to begin. Sometimes I feel like I identify more as a TF fanatic rather than a furry, but I don't really see any value in making that distinction. All I know is that it makes me feel funny, and that in it of itself is all I need to know.

Do you you enjoy TF from a narrative or fixation perspective, or is TF a fetish for you? (Not that you can't do both.) I really find it fascinating that there are loads of people where TF is more than just kink for them.

I think all three match for what I personally enjoy in TF (narratives, fixations, and fetishes). I think it depends on what I'm looking at sometimes too, when I'm trying to figure out which of those three lenses fit better.

If I'm drawing it once, then it's probably for the newly discovered weird idea or fetish.

If I draw the same pose or form more than once, retrying it ad nauseum, then it's probably a fixation.

Then, finally by some miracle, if I'm happy with what I've drawn, or start to paint a dialogue explaining a backstory to it, then I think the narrative builds naturally from there. I like narratives in TF, but I think it's difficult to maintain after the first image or sequence.

I think I can apply the same logic for when I'm hunting down some TF art, some content for inspiration, or I happen to see something randomly interesting :P

Really well explained. Thanks for such a thoughtful response. Looking forwards to all your future fetishes, fixations, and narratives. :)

I like an extreme, exaggerated situations in a drawing where there are no limits.

That's quite the claim!

But I dig what you're doing with it with your gallery!

Its always a curiosity when learning about a creatives background to the exotic themes that are explored :3 thanks for sharing yours.

Sure! I wish I had a better answer to give. X3

What got you into animations and kinky transformations?

Tbh its been a sort of drawn out affair, since I was a teenager I've been pretty private about my curiosities around the fandom mainly because I jumped off the deep end of the fandom's pool of themes X3 so exotic themes were just interesting but also pretty wild stuff. In fact, I didn't even know much about the fandom as a whole until uni when I met one of my friends who was apologetically furry.

By the time Covid hit I had enough time to rediscover traditional animation again and the fandom as it had a lot of potential for sourcing ideas and growth. I was impatient about waiting for some artists to put out interesting animations or sequences so I started making my own, I adopted a bun as a playboy moniker to represent the adult nature of my work but it evolved from a mascot to a sona and the rest is history.

Very nice. I can see what you mean with the avatar choice and moniker. Mine came from a terrible in-joke.

And yeah, a lot of my art attempts started from impatience, too...

And now my impatience stems from my slow art attempts. X3

Hahaha I feel you! I usually measure the output of my work among other metrics and its definately gotten ‘slower’ but the quality has gone up gradually too. I try not to pressure myself too much since animation is a lot of work, but I cant deny that its made me feel frustrated at times with the glacial development of a days work or a weeks work for periods.

I’ve learned to adopt a more natural pace even though i try to emulate the workflow and pace of disney animators. The issue i often find is that characters and settings i work with tend to be more complex and the more lines there are the more work it becomes on an exponential scale. But this isnt so much a criticism of characters as a whole so much as it is a competing interest with my desire to have higher detail married with fluid motion - that just inherently takes more time.

I tend to made post-mortem reports for myself as notes following each project, what worked, what didnt, etc. i often try to experiment with a new technique or process with each project too. Getting outside of my comfort zone with drawing is, well, uncomfortable but only because im often unfamiliar with what i do and it often serves to broaden my talents to all kinds of things since im very keen to animate to virtually all kinds of topics the fandom is into (within FA’s definition of acceptable material ofc).

Its been fun despite the challenges, its also why im scaling things down to more manageable scopes i can work with. I still make animations (but for now) up to 15 seconds, and ill be emphasizing more 8/12 fps runtimes over 12/24. if I gain traction and income is steady id like to hire on various artists to help with some processes to free me up time to focus on the animation bits that require the most attention. I’ll also be planning more background art design forays and complex camera shots like paralaxes maybe even more elaborate cast shadow and special effects work. Drawing cels does take time though so itll come when there time to include it. For now im looking at a 1-3 month turn around time for short productions, but again that really depends on what is involved.

Your last comment sent me off on a bit of a tangent but its def a feeling i suspect most of us share. Whats been your approach to your process? Do you take note from what others have tried or focus on iterating what you do? Or do you like what you have going on but want to seek out new ideas?

Ack! Took me a while to respond.

My process seems to be more about finding time for the process. That's the hardest part.
Keeping track of a sudden idea and then holding onto it for a while until I can sit down and scribble it out.

I definitely do a mix of iterating on my own, and also experimenting with something interesting that comes along my feed.
I also try to keep an eye outside the fandom too, so that I don't get too stagnant in an echo chamber. That leads me to watch a lot of old, sometimes bad movies.

I also take a lot of risky, "random" attempts and just scribble something out. Usually that just leads to something that is not for me and I also don't like how it looks. But those practice tries are probably the most valuable thing because it could lead to something I'd never seen before. It's also just good for practice.

But for the most part, finding and making time for the process has been the hardest part.