Our first interview, featuring a really great guy,  Rimme! This is the first one, and we hope to do them twice a month. We're working on an image to go along, hopefully done soon. But enough about that, let’s see what he has to say!
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-Tell us a little about yourself.
My furaffinity name is Rimme, and my fursona is a long-tailed weasel. I've been a TF artist for about 7 or 8 years, a full-fledged furry for 1 year, and I've been looking at this stuff for about 12 years now.

-What got you into the transformation aspect?
I could do like most people and name the first show or movie or book I saw with TF in it (Pinocchio). But that didn't give me an interest in transformation. Like being right-handed or having brown hair, I feel like I've always had it, or at least goes back to something in infancy. I can't explain either why my tastes in transformation are solely towards animals and anthros, as opposed to TG, AR or AP, inanimate, or the other varieties of transformation out there. It's just how it is for me.

-What got you into the furry fandom (if you’re a part of it)?
Now this I can answer, because for a long time I didn't think I was a part of it, or that if I joined I would only be ruining the fandom for others. I knew all my favorite TF was being made by furries, so it was natural for me to try to connect with them. And who doesn't like anthro animals? It took a long time hanging out with other furries and making a few furry friends in order to bring out that personal connection I, as an adult, had with anthros, and to find my weasel fursona, before I could finally cement myself as a furry. And it only took 10 years!

-What got you into drawing/writing? When did you start? What did you start with?
Like many young boys, I got my start into drawing by filling my notebook paper with elaborate death traps for stick figures. Later, I started making comic strips on loose sheets of paper, a Calvin and Hobbes rip-off with a boy named John, his pet dog and squirrel, and his science-y cardboard boxes.

-What was the first story/drawing that you did that had transformation in it?
Funnily enough, I didn't put transformation in my comic. My first TF drawing was a stick figure sunbathing and growing a tiger tail and then tiger ears. I don't remember any other TF drawings until adolescence.

-What artwork of yours are you most proud of and why?
As of right now, Grovel is the first piece where I found my preferred style -- a sharp foreground character who brings you straight into the action, and a loosely drawn background that exists but is not important. Plus, I look the pose and the expression of the character, and the growing tail is pretty cool.

-What’re your favorite parts of a transformation?
The physical changes used to be the main draw for me, but now I think it's the actual experience of transformation, of feeling a whole new body around and experiencing the world a different way. For me at least, transformation is not about tampering with the human body, nor is it about humiliation or demonstrating power over someone. I think it's a metaphor for intimacy, really.
Physically speaking, though, I gotta love a muzzle TF.

-What’s your favorite transformation in tv/movies/video games/books?
For all those werewolf movies or books about kids turning into animals, the donkey scene from Pinocchio has always been the best mainstream transformation scene.

-What’s your favorite thing/part to draw?
I like drawing facial expressions and soft fluffy fur. I like figuring out how to draw hands changing, too.

-What are your favorite triggers?
Um, I guess magic? As long as it isn't painful, I don't have much opinion on triggers.

-What do you prefer NOT to be in a transformation?
As weird as this sounds, no dehumanization. I like transformations that don't try taking away experience or consciousness, but rather enhance them or provide some escapism.

-What do you like to be transformed into?
I don't set out with a favorite animal, but I tend to prefer transforming into small animals. Rodents, mustelids, rabbits, and so on.

-What do you dislike to be transformed into?
Dogs, because I don't go for the blind loyalty aspect, and dinosaurs, because I was never a fan of dinosaurs and there are other extinct animals who need more love.

-Do you prefer anthro, feral, or something else?
They each have their strengths. Anthros have sapience and places to belong in their anthro worlds, places that take advantage of their animal strengths. Ferals have simple lives and simple responsibilities, even though I also like to imagine a feral society kept separate and secret from the human world. It all depends on my mood.

-Do you like mental changes to be part of a tf?
What is the definition of a "mental change"? Cool, calm acceptance of the new body is definitely preferable, but is it a mental change? I like premises that involve being fitted into a new role within society, and some of that may require gaining some new knowledge or instincts. And sometimes a transformation might require losing the victim's anxiety or phobias... The fact that they acknowledge anything at all should technically count as a mental change. Let's say that I'm open to a wide range of mental TF's, from mostly normal to complete overhaul of identity. Just so long as it isn't harmful to their well-being.

-What would you like to see more of in transformation art?
I would like to see more unique species, and experiences unique to them. More desert and aquatic animals, for instance, and more reptiles and amphibians.

-Do you have any original characters involved in transformation, whether they be the tf-er or the tf-ee?
Ignoring the Exciting Changes comic, the closest would be the two charaters in my "TF Couple" pictures, and I've only made a couple of those. I do have some original characters who cause or are victims of transformations, but they're still waiting for their stories to be written. I like very character-specific TFs, where the transformations come to represent themselves, their personality, their past, or their dreams.

-Who are some artists that inspire you?
Foxx's wide range in output and style was my biggest inspiration, no doubt, and the sequences of FrostDrake, picklejuice, Oren Otter, and Kelvin the Lion all influenced my own comics for better or for worse. As for contemporary artists, I like Gillpanda, Altered, Angrboda, Teaselbone, Nojo, Swatcher, Silverclaw, and Sabretoothed Ermine, plus many others whose works I keep several references of for inspiration.

-If you had the option to undergo a transformation into something of your choosing, but it was permanent, would you do it? If yes, what would it be? If no, why not?
No, it'd be too big a decision to take. It's like getting a free tattoo of my choice, I couldn't do that either. I'm just not the sort of person who could make permanent decisions about himself. Maybe if there were other furries around town doing it too, I would join in.

-We all get in certain moods where we really enjoy a species/trigger/setting/etc. Describe the perfect tf scenario based on your mood right now.
It's cold and dark right now, so I'll go with a nice warm harbor seal TF, a man slipping away from the dirty dreary human world to stumble towards the icy waters, shed the wet rags around him and dive beneath the star-lit waves.

-Give your readers a sentence or two prompt for a tf doodle.
Only the hair, nose, and feet change, nothing else.

-If you could only transform your hands, what would you turn them into?
I would say opossum hands, because I love how wrinkled and gnarled they are, but people might freak out if they saw them. I'll go with hairy nimble raccoon hands.

-What would you do if you woke up one day as an animal/an anthro/your sona... and nothing else about the world had changed?
It would depend on how the world would react, but I expect I'd just get a medical check-up and then go on with life as usual.

-If you could only have a tail, what tail would it be?
I think I'd get an otter tail. They're long, sleek, and powerful.

-Poll time! Ask your wonderful audience a question!
Which is more important to you, the physical transformation, or the mental transformation?

-Anything else you wanna say?
Follow your pashion, and remember: "Transformation rhymes with these words and would sound very cool if you used them in a sentence like 'Transformation is my ________'!"