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Another updated Kitti..
Updating the Mzz Kitti figure character..
Bill pointed me to another figure morph called Meong which seems to be a cross between Avatar Navi and a Gelfling I added a dozen more morphs to it to get this look. New uniform, Updated face texture map. 50 watt eyes.Sporting the SPF tote bag with Bill logo on it.. Yours for only $9999.99
Mzz Kitti Freighter tails ©
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Deviant art https://www.deviantart.com/redfern42
web comic http://www.mzzkiti.com/index.htm
Updating the Mzz Kitti figure character..
Bill pointed me to another figure morph called Meong which seems to be a cross between Avatar Navi and a Gelfling I added a dozen more morphs to it to get this look. New uniform, Updated face texture map. 50 watt eyes.Sporting the SPF tote bag with Bill logo on it.. Yours for only $9999.99
Mzz Kitti Freighter tails ©
Redfern Deviant art https://www.deviantart.com/redfern42
web comic http://www.mzzkiti.com/index.htm
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fanart
Species Feline (Other)
Size 652 x 1220px
File Size 181.8 kB
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As Mapper revealed, the domain and the files are still accessible (at the time of this post) but the strip just kinda' floundered and petered out not too long after Paul S. Gibbs, co-creator and exclusive writer for the comic, died in early 2002, not quite a year after its debut.
A great "in universe" explanation, Kathy! I can imagine her continual flexing of her toe claws shredding the footwear inside.
(I suspect somebody will note such shoes and boots would be so constructed to account for and minimize this issue, but hey, "rule of funny" and "rule of cool" and all that rot.)
(I suspect somebody will note such shoes and boots would be so constructed to account for and minimize this issue, but hey, "rule of funny" and "rule of cool" and all that rot.)
Think of how uncomfortable it would be wearing shoes when you have long claws on your toes. Either she'd have to cut off the claws, or retract them (and they'd naturally want to come out whenever she needed traction), or have boots with giant bubbles on the front which would be incredibly awkward to walk in.
Also, little feet like she has don't really work in boots. It would be like putting a boot on a pegleg.
Also, little feet like she has don't really work in boots. It would be like putting a boot on a pegleg.
True, footwear would make more sense, but since Paul and I developed Mzzkiti as a comedic character, he reasoned (and I agreed) that she'd just look cooler with bare paws. Besides, whenever I tried drawing "boots" for digitigrade feet way back when, they kept looking like she had hooves. D'oh!
This. If you think about how shoes are constructed--for long, flat feet that flex about one third the way along--they don't make much sense for a creature with small, round feet.
A sort of sandal, maybe, to protect the foot pads, but otherwise, they're better off barefoot.
A sort of sandal, maybe, to protect the foot pads, but otherwise, they're better off barefoot.
To be fair, I've a lot of artists illustrate "believable" boots for digi-feet that don't look dorky (just run a search here for "boots" and we'll see all sorts of examples), but at that time in the early 2000s, I personally could not manage it.
One thing I bet, the Con-Fab equivalent of OSHA probably grinds their collective teeth and make Moggians and other species insisting upon going barefoot (bare tentacled, bare pseudo-pod, etc.) to sign wagers for supportive limb related injuries!
One thing I bet, the Con-Fab equivalent of OSHA probably grinds their collective teeth and make Moggians and other species insisting upon going barefoot (bare tentacled, bare pseudo-pod, etc.) to sign wagers for supportive limb related injuries!
I can easily see them needing coverings in a spacesuit-type situation, of course. But for everyday wear, they'd probably be more comfortable barefoot.
Tentacles? Well, a big hamster ball for cephalopods might work, and incidentally keep the slime off the deck plates...
Tentacles? Well, a big hamster ball for cephalopods might work, and incidentally keep the slime off the deck plates...
Sounds like it's been quite a work to upgrade all these things together to make this wonderous outcome. The effort pays off as she looks epic.
I find the tail as fur hmm to steaight and spikey, a little curveture in it for gravety reasons might be morea reasonable tough i haven't seen mutch tails irl so i woulden't know for shure, it might excist.
I find the tail as fur hmm to steaight and spikey, a little curveture in it for gravety reasons might be morea reasonable tough i haven't seen mutch tails irl so i woulden't know for shure, it might excist.
In the original web comic within which I drew her conventionally, I made her tail tuft the typical teardrop brush tip shape one might see upon a cartoon lion, maybe a "wisp" or two branching from the central mass. When adapting her to a digital 3D medium, I commissioned Little Dragon to create a morph and accessories (clothing, hair, etc.) that would turn his Furrette 2.0 into Mzzkiti. Among the elements was a tuft that would "conform" to the tip of the tail. It was not so much a teardrop shape as it was splayed a bit outwards, the "follicles" rather straight, looking rather like the particle spray from a high velocity impact.
Eventually, I found a commercially available base figure that I believed more closely captured Mzzkiti...once I "tuned" several dozen morph dials. However, there were items I tranferred from LD's version, one of them being the tail tuft. Mapper did the same thing. It's the detail you see in this very render. When somebody upon a private forum questioned the look of the tuft, feeling it was not particularly "groomed", I concocted a bit of "lore" to explain the frazzled fibers. You see, as a young Moggian (the flippant human word for her species), Mzzkiti had the nervous habit of gnawing upon her tail. tip. For a while it got so bad that she chewed out a fair portion of the hair, leaving it looking quite "ratty". When she got a better handle on her nervous habit, the hair grew back, but the fibers were no longer supple or silky. Often, when prepping for her shift, Mzzkiti doesn't bother spending the extra time needed to properly groom her "shock wig" of a tail tuft.
Eventually, I found a commercially available base figure that I believed more closely captured Mzzkiti...once I "tuned" several dozen morph dials. However, there were items I tranferred from LD's version, one of them being the tail tuft. Mapper did the same thing. It's the detail you see in this very render. When somebody upon a private forum questioned the look of the tuft, feeling it was not particularly "groomed", I concocted a bit of "lore" to explain the frazzled fibers. You see, as a young Moggian (the flippant human word for her species), Mzzkiti had the nervous habit of gnawing upon her tail. tip. For a while it got so bad that she chewed out a fair portion of the hair, leaving it looking quite "ratty". When she got a better handle on her nervous habit, the hair grew back, but the fibers were no longer supple or silky. Often, when prepping for her shift, Mzzkiti doesn't bother spending the extra time needed to properly groom her "shock wig" of a tail tuft.
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