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Here I figured out the trouble with stuff like Winona. Ponies seem intelligent because of their upright posture. This is achieved by making them as tall as they are long, whereas stretching out the neck makes them look like monitor lizards. I needed the fox to be a person, not a pet. Gilda skirts the line, rearing up and being tall a lot (her default posture is seated, from the front) but when walking she looks like a monster, really long out of nowhere. This realization led to;
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Nailed the body down pretty well, here. A lot of details on ponies that I didn't get clicked here, like that chest bulge that leads up to their necks. Making a vixen waspish in the middle is hard, but is a result of my preference for buxomness in general. So that's a bit of bias that can be removed to free up the design a lot. The feet eluded me though, as my idea of having them end in points like caligraphy pictures just wouldn't work without actually using a brush.
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Razzette and Raggedy. The feet end in stubby curlicues to the the appropriate arabesque feeling (yes, I am misusing arabesque. Shut up.) and a sensation of Wyldness, that the Fox's legs just sort of spiral away into nothingness, like The fox itself would I you took an eye off her.
Fixes are vulpines of the canidae line, requiring acknowledging their predatory and scavenging instincts in their build. A Fox's about tapers, as does it's opposite point, the waist. The tail likewise tapers at beginning and end, resulting in a creature of Direction. Have you ever seen a video of foxes, wolves or jackals a. Play, when suddenly something gets their attention? Everything in their body points at that thing, ears eyes nose feet tail body EVERYTHING. That's a part of the creature concept that was lost in the horizontal build.
The hips are appropriately big as she is supposed to go into harem pants at some point, and the chest is given enough four to accommodate obvious femininity (as Fox is partial to terms like 'fun bags') while still being an anatomically correct part of the fox itself - it's a tuft of fur.