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The Paw-Post Classification System
Hi everybody.
This time, I made a paw/foot classification system poster for the Paw-Post news letter.
You can read it in greater detail here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Latest post for the Paw-Post can be seen on toeclaws page.
Don't forget to check it out!
This time, I made a paw/foot classification system poster for the Paw-Post news letter.
You can read it in greater detail here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Latest post for the Paw-Post can be seen on toeclaws page.
Don't forget to check it out!
Category All / Paw
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 2200 x 1400px
File Size 543.6 kB
Heh, we did do the .5's for a while, but I found that confused people. So now we just slot them into the five classes. Yours is a C2 that is much closer to a C3 than it is to a C1, for example. But still a C2 because of the taper in toe-size and placement. And a darn sexy C2 at that. Jet's soles are so unique. <3
Very useful indeed! And also very well done! I always had a strong idea of how the classification system worked, but now I can feel more confident in the system! And probably will give other people a lot more insight as well! X3
Awesome work as always Ximon! Ya done good!
Awesome work as always Ximon! Ya done good!
Aye - the majority of people are visual learners. Even though I've always had links to images below the class descriptions, the big advantage of this type of picture is that people can see them all side-by-side, and drawn by the same artist too so that they can really see how each paw type varies structurally. In time, I would love to get more. XD This is an amazing start though.
Heh - yes, I often wonder that as well. Without a heel pad, a C3 stepping heel-first onto a freshly waxed floor could meet their doom. :P But it's down to artistic choice really, and depends on skin type too. My own fursona has a ventral-scaled heel and mid-sole, so doesn't need a pad, if you're curious.
Maybe I overthink it, but I tend to think practically about the role of pads, that they should protect all the contact surfaces. I've seen some artists have a single pad that covers the whole sole, which is appealing, though I like the look of segmented pads as well.
My fox and hare avatars are kind of between C2 and C3, the fox having pads on the toes, ball, and heel and the hare either having all fur or all skin, depending on my mood.
My space jackal, of course, is very much a C1 but with claws and a very thick, textured sole with built-in treads for traction. The benefits of being an engineered being.
My fox and hare avatars are kind of between C2 and C3, the fox having pads on the toes, ball, and heel and the hare either having all fur or all skin, depending on my mood.
My space jackal, of course, is very much a C1 but with claws and a very thick, textured sole with built-in treads for traction. The benefits of being an engineered being.
I think you're just being very logical about it - which is good! Any C3 character I design would certainly have pads if they had a furred footpaw - it just makes sense. And whether it was a full sole-pad or partial would probably depend on how much of an arch structure the character has to the foot.
And very interesting characters you have there! Is Seiko fully robotic or more cyborg (IE, living and mechanical)?
And very interesting characters you have there! Is Seiko fully robotic or more cyborg (IE, living and mechanical)?
All depends on the toe size and taper. Some of your pics look like a C3 and some look like C2. I've seen a number of characters where the person is also flexible about how they're drawn by other artists. :) If your official version has toes that taper in size from large inner toe to smaller outer toe, and the big toe is the longest of them, then that's a C2. Once the toe sizes don't change as much, and/or the middle toe(s) are longer/larger, then you're in C3 territory.
*laughs* Aww, I don't know if it's a minority. When we first talked about making the system, a big motivation was that we had a lot of C1 and C2 readers/fans who enjoyed those pics, but really didn't want to have to sift through all the C3s to C5s to find them. I know there are a LOT of readers of the Paw-Post that only wanna see those two.
Yeah, that's a good point - back when I first was in the fandom, I didn't really see much other than C3 and C4. Depending on the characters, the C1 and C2 types suit them perfectly. It would be hard to even imagine some characters with other types. Heh, I'm lucky that I like all types. :P
Yep - the system has been around in the document that's linked for a while now, and even with the examples, you don't really get that "ah HA!" moment until you see them all on one page like this.
Sidenote: We need to see about having you join us at the Paw-Post for a character highlight at some point! I mean, THE Barefoot Stallion. :D
Sidenote: We need to see about having you join us at the Paw-Post for a character highlight at some point! I mean, THE Barefoot Stallion. :D
Thank you SO much again for your interest, inspiration and hard work on this Ximon! This exactly what we had hoped we could one day have for the Footpaw Classification System. It offers such a nice and easy to understand summation of the system. You did an amazing job of all the types, especially with how radically different they get when you compare one end to the other of the scale! You are awesome. ^_^
Hooves can present an interesting challenge - they're not really a "foot" in a normal sense - mostly toenail. In the document, near the bottom of the explanation of stuff, I touch on a C#-ish designation, which has been used thus far to explain a few hooved pictures where there was a least somewhat a normal body to the foot (IE, a heel and mid-sole) and just the hooves for toes part. A character that has more traditional hooves where it's mostly hooves doesn't really fall into this classification system.
ok, i think my character can fall in c# designation, or at least he has human like feet, i will train myself with this designation but it's really an interesting article you got there worth the study and was pleasent to read and noice job to impximon for the poster too it help a lot
Depends. If they walk pantigrade, then they might get a C2-ish designation, like this lady: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/24007100/ . In that case, she still has heel, mid-sole and even the ball-pad area of her foot with only the toes replaced by the hoove-nails. So... it's still sort of a foot. :P
Anyway, yeah - this was fantastic, and I'm really grateful ImpXimon was inspired to begin it out of his own interest in the system.
Anyway, yeah - this was fantastic, and I'm really grateful ImpXimon was inspired to begin it out of his own interest in the system.
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