History Main / FurriesAreEasierToDraw

** The species=race thing is deliciously subverted in Canales and Guarnido's {{Blacksad}}, where one arc confronts white supremacists of several species - wolves, polar bears, cats and so on - which makes their political position seem even more absurd.
*** Naylor probably chose hyenas because people just associate the animal with Africa, anyway. More unnerving is how many of them are depikted tawkin' like dis.

* As WaltDisney sought to drastically improve [[ArtEvolution animation quality and standards]] in his cartoons, this trope became apparent in full force. Far and away the best and most revered Disney animation of the period tends to be either animal characters such as MickeyMouse, DonaldDuck, {{Goofy}}, the ThreeLittlePigs, [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]], {{Dumbo}} and {{Bambi}} or stylized caricatures of humans such as [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Seven Dwarfs]].

* As WaltDisney sought to drastically improve [[ArtEvolution animation quality and standards]] in his cartoons, this trope became apparent in full force. Far and away the best and most revered Disney animation of the period tends to be either animal characters such as MickeyMouse, DonaldDuck, {{Goofy}}, the ThreeLittlePigs, [[Disney/Pinocchio Jiminy Cricket]], {{Dumbo}} and {{Bambi}} or stylized caricatures of humans such as [[Film/SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs the Seven Dwarfs]].

* As WaltDisney sought to drastically improve [[ArtEvolution animation quality and standards]] in his cartoons, this trope became apparent in full force. Far and away the best and most revered Disney animation of the period tends to be either animal characters such as MickeyMouse, DonaldDuck, {{Goofy}}, the ThreeLittlePigs, [[Pinocchio Jiminy Cricket]], {{Dumbo}} and {{Bambi}} or stylized caricatures of humans such as [[Film/SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs the Seven Dwarfs]].

** The species=race thing is deliciously subverted in Canales and Guarnido's [[Blacksad]], where one arc confronts white supremacists of several species - wolves, polar bears, cats and so on - which makes their political position seem even more absurd.

[[AC:TruthInTelevision]]
* In some sense, this trope is TruthInTelevision. Furries aren't necessarily easier to draw, but it's easier to get away with flaws when drawing furries. The human brain has very specialized centers for interpreting human faces, but there is no equivalent for animals, which end up getting processed with generalized optical centers. As a result, minor flaws in human faces will be picked up on, where as bigger flaws in animal faces will go completely unnoticed.
* Another reason that occasionally pops up is that, except in specific cases, drawing furries bypasses most matters regarding character race. Can't decide if someone is black or white? Answer: make them a cat.
** Some inversions of this include Art Spiegelman's "Maus" (Jews are mice, Germans are cats, etc.) and Jay Naylor's "Better Days" (and it's sequel "Original Life") in which hyenas are specifically supposed to represent blacks (no [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implications]] in that, [[SarcasmMode is there]]?)
** The species=race thing is deliciously subverted in Canales and Guarnido's [[Blacksad]], where one arc confronts white supremacists of several species - wolves, polar bears, cats and so on - which makes their political position seem even more absurd.
*** Naylor probably chose hyenas because people just associate the animal with Africa, anyway. More unnerving is how many of them are depikted tawkin' like dis.

->''"So the owl turns him into a kitten, because he claims they're easier to kill, but I think it's because they're easier to draw."''
-->--'''TheNostalgiaCritic''' on ''RockADoodle ''

* The artist of LastResort drew that picture up there.

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[[caption-width-right:200:Easier is not the same as easy.]]

* This was the reason stated why German comic artist Peter Puck drew his character Rudi as this. Dog snouts are easier than human noses, apparently.

* Check out the DVD extra's for Disney's ''RobinHood''. It shows several pieces of concept art for a realistic Robin and Maid Marian. Like other realistic human figures at the time, these would have been rotoscoped. The narrator claims the decision was made to use Furries because it would be funny to see animals acting like people. {{Bullshit}}. Cartoon animals had been around for fifty years before the film was made. It would be easier to animate the faces, you could get away with more slapstick, you didn't need an actor to rotoscope. Also, your human Robin Hood looked like crap.

[[LastResort http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/last-resort-jigsaw-and-daisy.jpg]]
[[caption-width:200:Easier is not the same as easy.]]

*** Once in a while she also draws the cast [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=218 as humans]]

* Check out the DVD extra's for Disney's RobinHood. It shows several pieces of concept art for a realistic Robin and Maid Marion. Like other realistic human figures at the time, these would have been rotoscoped. The narrator claims the decision was made to use Furries because it would be funny to see animals acting like people. {{Bullshit}}. Cartoon animals had been around for fifty years before the film was made. It would be easier to animate the faces, you could get away with more slapstick, you didn't need an actor to rotoscope. Also, your human Robin Hood looked like crap.

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* Check out the DVD extra's for Disney's RobinHood. It shows several pieces of concept art for a realistic Robin and Maid Marion. Like other realistic human figures at the time, these would have been rotoscoped. The narrator claims the decision was made to use Furries because it would be funny to see animals acting like people. [[Bullshit]]. Cartoon animals had been around for fifty years before the film was made. It would be easier to animate the faces, you could get away with more slapstick, you didn't need an actor to rotoscope. Also, your human Robin Hood looked like crap.

* Similar to the WolfsRain example, Yoshihiro Takahashi's works tend to invert this. Especially the anime adaptation of GingaDensetsuWeed - the dogs can look so strange as to be cringe-worthy. GingaNagareboshiGin suffers from this as well, but not quite as badly. Humans in these series, on the other hand, tend to be rather well-drawn.

* Similar to the WolfsRain example, Yoshihiro Takahashi's works tend to invert this. Especially the anime adaptation of GingaDensetsuWeed - the dogs can look so strange as to be cringe-worthy. GingaNagareboshiGin suffers from this as well, but not quite as badly. Humans in these series, on the other hand, tend to be well-drawn by comparison.

* Similar to the WolfsRain example, Yoshihiro Takahashi's works tend to invert this. Especially the anime adaptation of GingaDensetsuWeed - the dogs can look so strange as to be cringe-worthy. GingaNagareboshiGin suffers from this as well, but not quite as badly. Humans in these series, on the other hand, tend to be rather well-drawn.

* Similar to the wolfsRain example, Yoshihiro Takahashi's works tend to invert this. Especially the anime adaptation of GingaDensetsuWeed - the dogs can look so strange as to be cringe-worthy. GingaNagareboshiGin suffers from this as well, but not quite as badly. Humans in these series, on the other hand, tend to be rather well-drawn.