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Hello to the fuzzier among reddit :3 So for those of you celebrating Thanksgiving today, I figured it might be a nice time to make a thread about something you're thankful for, or even just what you did o celebrate. ^ As for moi, I'm just thankful that my family is healthy, and we still get to get together for Thanksgivig every year. ^

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[adjective][species] recently concluded a month long promotion and experiment into how well advertisement works within the furry fandom. The results are interesting but nothing surprising, though it goes someway to validating why websites (and not just furry ones) put up advertisement and why so many will spend money on marketing.

A concerning issue for any furry site not called FurAffinity is the fight for advertisement revenue. FurAffinity brought in 1486 referrals compared to 174 from SoFurry, a staggering difference. That was for [a][s] alone, it was a similar scale of difference for their other properties: Love – Sex – Fur, The Furry Poll and Bookmarfs.

The natural order of things is that the site that brings advertisers the most traffic command a higher demand and can charge more, leaving other sites in a cut throat market to fight for the remaining marketing dollars.

I think that the advertising experiment was useful in seeing just how the fandom utilizes advertising.  Judging by personal interactions with friends and through comments here on the previous post, our reaction to advertising is decidedly mixed.  Several people I have heard from have described ads in general to be intrusive and a nuisance, especially on the Internet.

This is something for me to write about another day, the contradictory "can't live with them, can't live without them" relationship with advertisement. There is a prevailing attitude among web surfers that adverts are a nuisance, yet the same people I would bet are not willing pay for services that are normally funded by ad revenue. If you could corner someone with the reasoning, just what would their response be? Do they just expect the likes of YouTube to be free through magic?

Advertising does play a role in our community, and I think that these few examples have shown just how that information is transmuted into a measurable and visible change.  For those out there questioning whether or not their business within furry will benefit from advertising, I think this serves as a fairly strong “yes”.  I placed four ads on two high-traffic sites for a month for just about $130 (about the cost of running all of the above sites except for the furry survey for one year) and the results were immediate.

I have noticed that advertisement is all the more important if you wish to gain mindshare within a special interest community like the furry fandom. It would make for an interesting article looking into how websites achieve mindshare. Some sites can gain wide recognition within a short space of time, whilst others have to be persistent in order to become accepted as a long term player in the fandom.

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Achewood is a comic series by artist & writer Chris Onstad, inspired by his ex-wife’s stuffed animals. The Verge's culture section has run a profile piece:

Most of Achewood is about the mundane daily activities of the characters, who throw parties, have internet relationships, start Subway franchises, and take road trips. They go to heaven, hell, and the moon. They time travel and produce platinum albums.

Onstad has a few other tricks that make Achewood distinctive. He relies heavily on pop culture references, French cuisine, and obtuse, often made-up slang. The site TV Tropes notes that Achewood relies on "Genius Bonus," inside jokes buried where only insiders can find them.

"Achewood is transcendent," says Cohen, a fan and fellow comic writer who asked not to use his last name, in an email to The Verge. "On the surface there’s his obvious genius of phrasing and timing that’s unlike anything before or since. He’s also able to convey more with a raised eyebrow than anybody — part of that’s the minimalism of the art; when stuff is simple minor changes get magnified … It’s also just plain the funniest goddamned thing there is, in a way that’s hard to objectively qualify without getting into a really tedious (for some) discussion about discourse and dialogue mechanics and subversion."

After over a decade he's decided to branch out into a TV series he has been pitching around. See more about the video on The Watchlist.

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The Verge wrote a piece about the web cult following around the comic Achewood, which also spoke about a TV pilot the creator Chris Onstad has been pitching around to studios.

Achewood: The TV Show has a long way to go. Onstad and his production company are working on a new pitch. They’ve built the software models and developed a workflow to create the cartoon using motion-capture actors, a process Onstad says is faster even than South Park’s famously quick turnaround.

"I don't think we nailed the tone and humor of Achewood by any means," Onstad says. "I'm excited to write version two, knowing what I know now about how all that work, all those actors, engineers, and producers come together, which is a hell of a lot."

Watching through it I noticed an uncanny life-like fluid motion to the characters, which is explained by the production team's motion-capture technology. Presumably 3D models with skeletal rigs are synced to the motion-capture and outputted as a flat cartoonish animation. Very interesting technology that any would-be animator (furry inclined or otherwise) would love to get their mitts on.

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I have a few friends but none of them are furry and really looking to change that with some like minded people! Hit me up if interested!!!

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Same as last time, post a reference and I'll sketch your character. No descriptions please, just refs.

Thanks guys!

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Jacqueline Donneli, the producer of the furry reality show, whom I have been in contact with about the reality show, is planning on discussing the reality show here on /r/furry. Considering how her plans for the show are actually taking a look at the fandom, instead of just making another yiff fest disaster piece, I suggest we do well by her. Edit one:typo

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First off happy thanksgiving everyone! May all of your pants not fit by the end of the evening!

Anyways, Im looking to take a few simple requests, Ive been suffering from art block and Id love to draw some new characters.

Heres my gellery for reference: http://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/lucaloo/

• One character only
• Loose ideas welcome
• NSFW ideas welcome
• First come first serve
• Claim spot with a comment, your idea and a reference (visual or written)

These will be, at the most, colored sketches that ill be doing for warm ups or taking a break from the other things on my plate.

Thanks for looking:)

EDIT: Sorry for coming back to this so late, I tried to hide it after I got the three, but I guess that didnt work! Due to my error and confusion ill try to pull a few more from the pile, the first three will definitely be done and ill pull the others at my own discretion!

EDITEDIT: You guys are all so flappin' sweet<3

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Big news from our friends over at Cartoon Brew, especially if you’re a fan of traditional animation: “Indie animated feature distributor GKIDS has announced that the highly anticipated hand-drawn French film Ernest and Celestine will open in New York and Los Angeles on March 14, 2014. That will be followed by national expansion to all major US markets. GKIDS has qualified Ernest and Celestine for the Academy Awards this year in the film’s original French language with subtitles. The American release, however, will be dubbed with a voice cast that includes Forest Whitaker, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy, Megan Mullally, and Nick Offerman. The small New York-based distributor has experienced fantastic success at the Oscars during the past five years by countering the big studios with quieter, more personal hand-drawn fare. They have earned nominations for three of their features: The Secret of Kells, A Cat in Paris, and Chico & Rita.” Check it out next year.

image c. 2013 GKIDS

 

 

And with that, we wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. Needless to say, you have our THANKS for reading this regularly! We appreciate your company.

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Mixture of sandboxes, rentable parcels apartments, club and hangout, Serenity Woods can trace its history back to one of the earliest furry sims The Forest, whom many of the former administrators went on to become involved in Serenity.

In their words

Welcome to Serenity Woods!  We're very proud of the community we've created here, and hope you will have as much fun here as we had creating it.  Serenity Woods is a great place to chill out, or rawk out!  We hope you'll bring your friends, and make new ones here as well.

Features

• Club (Planet Serenity)
• Sandbox
• Rentable apartments
• Rentable skyboxes

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Ground sandbox



Skyboxes


Apartments
Sky sandbox



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You must be 18 or over to have a Second Life account.  Visitors are advised that strong language might be used and on occasions some furries may be nude. 

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Author: Dear Papa Bear, Let me just say thanks for taking time out of your day to read my messages. Your advice is really helpful! I’m sorry I waited so long to respond to your messages. I’ve been busy with school, personal stuff, a relative just passed away, etc.  Anyway, I have another question. I […]

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I would hate to see what happens if it had been the tanooki or frog.

You have to answer the call. ...the call is "meow".

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Rabbit show jumping is an actual thing, hopping over poles much like horse show jumping minus the rider, on a smaller and cuter scale.

Bunny rabbits are adorable enough when they're just sitting there twitching their pink noses or lapping water up from their little bottles, but when they're hopping over brightly colored fences like tiny, long-eared horses while their super-enthusiastic trainers cheer from the sidelines, it makes you wonder why rabbit show jumping isn't on TV all the time.

Also I find this endearing. You’d never see a horse be able to do that.

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