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Inspired by illustrator Hajime Sorayama's curvaceous robots?

I think it probably was... come to think of it, when I used the art as the cover of my second booklet, I titled it Sexy Skunk and copied the graphics from one of the original Soryama collections (in Japanese).

I still have my copy.

I've always wondered what Asimov would have thought of the movie versions of "I,Robot" and "Bicentennial Man." I rather like them both and thought they managed to work in several stories into two plots rather well. And there was the metal cutie in "Bicentennial Man" -- if you haven't seen her, she's worth seeing.

My characters can be called "bicentennials" as even after a humanizing virus got loose, they were subjected to aboutr 2-3 genetic upgrades, eradicating undesirable animal characteristics ,physical & mental. As the upgrades were engineered from their adoptive parents, well, they became the children of such !

Their genetic code is totally incompatible with humans, however.

The subtle touches of color really work well with her!

That tail makes it (her?) look like a dinosaur of some sort - a velociraptor, say.

It's also useful as a trunk. You can carry a complete picnic lunch in there, ghetto blaster, and towels in case you go swimming.

Wow, this is pretty cool! And damn, it's oldschool :D
It actually reminds me of my own character, Sine. But much shinier!

I'm pretty old school myself. The drawing was done at the dawn of furry fandom, as the cover of my second booklet. In those days you could sell prints and portfolios -- it was quite lucrative until the internet opened access to billions of free drawings and the market for reproductions was annihilated.

Iron can not take this gleam. No, Ma'am Metalamoselle must be forged from silver or iridium or the like.

Or chrome. Heck... she could be chromed plastic, though I have doubts that a four foot tall plastic robot would be durable enough. Eh... maybe. She'd sure be lighter and cheaper.

Or it could be Stella of Over the Hedge. The Hedgers, having amassed such vast knowledge, and prolonged their animal lives, finally download their minds into metal bodies, on the way to becoming "2001 monoliths", with power enough to morph whole wor;lds at will ! Another correspond smirked at that wild idea, saying that they just imitate consumerism and can't even get started evolving that way.

Stella has a more animal-like anatomy, I noticed, without Kelly's alterations to make Mlle. seem more graceful.

I thought it odd that almost nobody picked up on Stella, though... for that matter, there has been little interest shown in most funny animal characters in movies for years... I wonder why?

I did a brilliant parody of the Swamp People in a fan-fic involving aliens. I invite you (yes, YOU !!) to guess who the following are:

HOPPINGSTICK the Capitannhauser
ALTITUDEBERT
MEHITAPHISTOPHELIA
The CHEERUPTERS
Dr.BHUHBH'OH
LADY CASTORAGE
BEHOLDANDREGARD

Um... let's see.

Pogo
Albert Alligator
Hepzibah
No idea
No idea
Miz Beaver
Beauregard Beagle

One of the No Idea by rights should be Howland Owl or Churchy LaFemme (the turtle), but I don't see how you'd get from those to "The Cheerupters" or "Dr. Bhuhbh'oh."

No, the Cheerupters = the Chiroptera = the three bats.
Dr. Bhuhbh'oh = Dr.(?) Bubo = Howland Owl (Bubo is a well known genus of owls)

You scored well otherwise.
I also wondered about Hysterhesus. (Porkypine ). But Churchy was the Rivivi-Quintessene ship.

Three bats did come to mind, but I couldn't figure how you got from Cheerupters to bats, despite knowing the Chiroptera were Greek for "wing" or someting like. I guess I should have been a little bolder and gone out on a limb.

Now that you mention it, "Bubu" is a genus of owl, but I didn't think of it at all, animal genera being way down on the list of my interests. I might have gotten the bats but not this one.

You might have called Churcy, "Percy LeFranc" -- corrupted French for "follow the money," I think.