yeah actually

*shrug* Fair enough.

Sounds like something a dreamcrusher might say. ._.

I wouldn't say it crushed my dreams - I have plenty of other stuff to put in the portfolio. :p
It just confused me a bit.

You're right. It was just the first thought that came to my mind, you know? lol

There's about unlimited things better to put in a portfolio.

But so many cartoons have animals as characters...I just don't know what's wrong with having them in a portfolio.
[Clarification: I'm not talking about the generic furry style (which is indeed as fatal as having 'anime'), just animals that walk and talk in general.]

I feel there's a difference between cartoon animals and furries. They may be very subtle, like which side of the toonism/realism scale it falls on, but they're there in my mind. I don't feel that these difference should affect whether or not you put something in your art portfolio though.

I tend to lump 'em all together into one category - mixed-species characters with human emotive qualities. As does the instructor.

So the little guy in the picture wouldn't be allowed because he's an animal that's bipedal and talking.

I see where you're coming from, though.

You were right in what you said in your reply to the comment above mine. So many cartoons have animals as characters, that they're probably seen as a dime-a-dozen. While humans are also a tried-and-true subject for animations, they typically are seen as harder to animate or draw in general than animals. I can understand why the instructor doesn't accept animal characters for classwork; I probably wouldn't either unless one had them mingling with other animate flora and fauna.