Animal Designs

Now that you've received your animals and set up your zoo pages, it's time to start designing your animals. Here are a few things to keep in mind.

Design

1. All animals should be designed mostly realistically to their real-life counterparts. Patterns should be naturally-occurring and colors should be similar to typical wild coloration. Plausible variation in spot shapes are ton are fine, and any eye colors are okay.

2. Mutations such as albinism, melanism, and markings (such as king cheetahs and piebaldism) are rolled for by the group and therefore not able to be applied to standard animals.

3. Injuries, scars, disabilities, and illnesses can be freely added if desired. You may add minimal hair tufts, minimal unnatural markings (as long as colors are natural), and accessories. Paint/dye can be applied to the animal as long as there is a version to show the animal without paint/dye alongside. [Example]

Domestic animals can be any color that is reasonably found in its breed

Extinct animals can be any color (though very bright colors should be limited), but should make sense with the type of animal they are. For example, dire wolves should only be colors able to be found in mammals.

Mutations

These are the basic mutations available in all animal species. Some individual species will also be able to have their own mutations as they do in real life.

More info on mutations here

1. Albinism - The animal will have no pigment in their hair or skin and will have blue or red eyes

2. Melanism - The animal will appear very dark or black, with or without pattern showing through in a darker color.

3. Blue - The animal will be diluted in color where all black pigments become blue. Orange, yellow, red, and brown pigments will also become paler.

4. Chocolate - The animal will be diluted in color where all black pigments become chocolate brown. Orange, yellow, red, and brown pigments will stay the same.

5. Leucism - The animal will be diluted in color where all pigment is lightened to white or off-white.

6. Piebald - The animal will be covered in patches of white breaking up normal coloration and patterning.

References

1. References should be full-body and show at least 75% of the animal.

2. Bases, commissioned art, and tracing (photos only, with permission) are allowed but will not count for rolls.

3. For more info on submitting references, check out the welcome page:

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