Did you post hoping to be asked a very specific question? :P

No!

Suppose I've been curious about how you come up with all of your characters?

Ante is pretty much me as a cartoon coyote. His look changes as my look changes. I picked a coyote because, at the time, it was fairly original. It's been a long time and furry is way more popular these days, so there are a lot more coyotes around.

I made Amplitude as an alt for Second Life because I kinda wanted to go to my club without people treating me differently because I owned the place, so he started out as a stereotypical flashy, colorful, excitable furry. He has evolved a bit since then, but his persona is still bubbly, naive, and egocentric. He's pretty much a Myspace kid. A delicious Myspace kid.

Ted and Maren were both kinda my ideal predator at the time. Big, mean, hungry cats. That's really all there is too them.

Byron is pretty new. I wanted to come up with a design that would work well for a fursuit in the future, since my Amp suit is a few years old and I should probably think of replacing it. I took what I learned from that suit and applied it to the design. I wanted something less form-fitting that would give my shape a cartoony appearance and possibly hide cooling stuff, and I wanted big hips and a low crotch. I modeled him first instead of sketching him and somebody suggested basing his fur colors on a peach, so I did that and continued to base things about him on Georgia. He was named after a town in Georgia that grows peaches and I'm thinking he'll have a southern gentleman sort of persona, except that he eats people, of course.

Interesting how much you've thought through these characters. Its really cool to find out the stories behind peoples characters really are and how they came to be the faces we've all seen and know. Just curious but how long have you been in this wonderfully odd fandom we have come to be part of?

13 years. Half my life, apparently. Dang. D:

Been around awhile then? So what made you wanna start animating?

I dunno! I've been animating on and off that entire time, starting with flash and ending up in 3D.

Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Yes.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? What advice would you give yourself 10 years younger?

I honestly have no idea. I feel like I'm wasting my life sometimes, but I never really cared much for wealth. I have everything I want and I'm doing what I like, so I'd say I'm on the right track.

Did you get educated in animation, or is it something you picked up?

I've never taken an animation or modeling class in my life. I mostly took classes in programming, game design, art, and film.

Do you enjoy modeling and animating a lot? Is there something else you saw yourself doing before getting yourself into this?
Also, will we ever see the full Ante James animation, or was that privately finished?

Modeling and animating is fun. Rigging and working with the game engine's quirks is less fun. I probably would have seen myself making more actual video games. The James animation had a bug in it that kept me from releasing it for a while. I fixed that bug and sent it to the commissioner, but never showed it to anyone else. I remembered that earlier. There isn't much to it that isn't in the youtube video, though, so right now my latest animation is taking priority over finishing and releasing that one.

After your recent animation (which is still gorgeously and finely-detailed) is completed, will you consider uploading the fixed version of that flash? It's what led me to your fine arts, I'd enjoy the experience

Yes, I think I will mess with it and get it fully working for release.

are you 6? you are 6 arnt you?

No.

no halo reach for you! D:

Who's your favorite Power Ranger, if any?

Red  ranger

I See what you did there

So what does "TFA" stand for again?

Bones.

I'm sure there's some sort of long-running joke going on here but no actually I have always wondered this!