I always assumed that "most people just prefer the look of digitigrade for being more similar to the real animal version of their sona" was the reason why digitigrade was by far the most common for VR avatars, but never really considered that it was potential spillover from "the most desirable fursuits tend to be digitigrade, partially because they are more expensive to make and more difficult to wear". I don't know much about VR avatars, or making them, but I am a fursuit maker and I think this is an interesting perspective, especially because I have also noticed that many VR furry avatars have similarities to fursuits! I have no experience with second life and spent all of like 2 hours with it a decade ago so like if any of this goes back further with implications and stuff there that I overlooked or missed, it's because I have no frame of reference for how things be how they do in second life, sorry! Kinda the same problem of inaccessible desire and ALMOST reaching what I want to be the critter I wanna be, but.just a touch off of it. I like them lots! But I also would like to be able to have plantigrade legs for the impossible internet animal person I'm romping around as, and short of knowing a guy, the options out there are pretty slim and limited. I think that's all a big reason why digitigrade legs seem to be the prevailing style for furry VR avatars. I think it's fair to say that for a lot of people, that's a big draw, and a significant desire! Sure you may also think it's cuter, or that fits your character better, but I don't think it exactly stops there, ya know? We're influenced by what we see, by what we have or think we can't reach, as well as all that in what's going on with our peers, and our wants and tastes evolve and shape around that. The physical exhaustion of the fursuit's extra weight, size, and heat are gone, it doesn't take dozens of extra hours and hundreds or thousands of extra dollars to acquire, and boom! You can have that "extra" something you saw out of reach before, and have been potentially perceiving as the fullest extent of being able to be an animal person is.Right there! Jumping into VR, suddenly a lot of the barriers are gone when it comes to character design.
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And like, hella that's totally cool! But being a physical object full of foam and padding and fabric and heat, they're more difficult to wear, more taxing to romp around in, and require more of you in ways beyond the extra monetary cost to acquire.Īnd all that wrapped up, you have an echelon of "something more" that's a bit of an ingrained desire or possible bias in a LOT of folks when it comes to ways to BE your fursona. Some view em as an extra step to BEING your fursona, BEING that animal person, embodying something beyond the human you're stuck in. The highest rung you can get with all the bells and whistles. They're more exaggerated and shaped, there's more animal and less human, and they're also more expensive, more out of reach, and more exclusive because of that. I think it's fair to say that many furs into suits see digitigrase (aka digi legs) as a kind of "top tier".
This next part may be a little contentious, but please bear with me. Specifically, the kinds of bodyshapes, legs, and paw styles of those fursuits. There's obviously a myriad of reasons why people want more animal-liked features, folks making avatars prefer it, maybe advantages to modeling (I dunno), but I think a VERY big influence is, as I said earlier, fursuits. I'll elaborate.īy and large, the vast majority of furry avatars are digitigrade. I also think expectations, hierarchies of desirability, and aspirations of that also affect vrchat avatar design, especially regarding leg style. Fursuits have decades of being physical interpretations of the animals we are, and re-interpreting that into a physical-digital realm where we directly interact as them just makes sense. I think it's fair to say that fursuit design has a big influence on the design and proportion and modeling design of VRChat furry avatars.
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