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This is Rosie, my new cat taur OC (mountain lion taur to be precise)
In her day job, she's a mechanic, but she moonlights as a dirt track racer.
If you're wondering how she drives, she lays across the front seat.
She's considering a class action suit to require car companies to accommodate taurs better.
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Made some tweaks- decided that the image was a bit unbalanced, so I put in a few more mountains in the background, and I also added some more detail to the shading in some places as a "while I'm working on it..." thing.
Oh,yeah and I tweaked her expression a bit.

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~Noguy Apr 12, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Liontaur. Heh. Play any Quest For Glory Lately? (Google "Rakeesh" and "QFG" if you don't know)
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Mood: Anxious ~alex-x-1995 Mar 26, 2011  Student General Artist
That's an... interesting... face...
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:iconscorpion451:
I hit your uncanny valley, then?:D
Know how that can go, chibi/anime style humans do that for me from time to time.:XD:
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:iconalex-x-1995:
~alex-x-1995 Mar 26, 2011  Student General Artist
naw, it's def not like me, I was just saying it looked odd lol
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:iconscorpion451:
That's what the uncanny valley is, the point at which something is just human enough to creep you out. Animatronic robots do this for a lot of people. There's a point between "close to human" and "normal human" that creeps some people out, and they call that the uncanny valley on the graph of acceptance, because before and after that point people will like things more the more human they seem. Cars tend to have a "face" made of the headlights, grill, and bumper. But cars that look too much like a face tend to sell badly because they "look weird". The problem comes in in the fact that everyone's valley is a little different, and Rosie here seems to lie in yours.
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:iconalex-x-1995:
~alex-x-1995 Mar 26, 2011  Student General Artist
Oh, i didn't know that had a word. Thanks!
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:iconscorpion451:
I tweaked Rosie's expression a bit, and added/fixed some of the shading.
(after you pointed it out I decided her face could use a tweak or two...:hmm:)
Just out of curiosity, I'd like to know if she still looks weird to you or not.
Either way, I'm still interested in the answer, I find psychology endlessly fascinating :XD:
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~alex-x-1995 Apr 7, 2011  Student General Artist
It's flat. That's what gets me. I don't like cats with flat faces lol. But yes, it is better this way too ^^
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:iconcmndr-vaughn:
Very interesting, very nice. What kind of vehicle does she drive?

Now, about the taur-friendly motor vehicles affair, I don't know if you've seen this guy's page already, but :iconwannabemustangjockey: is partially devoted to that idealism, and he has done some artworks that explain how motor vehicles can accomodate taurs. I think it might be something of interest to you. Just wanted to let you know.
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:iconscorpion451:
The car she's posing on in the picture is a sort of hybrid itself,
between a 67 Pontiac GTO and an AMC Javelin, with a bit of Cadillac thrown in for the interior.
The idea was to suggest a sort of approximately parallel world to our own,
plus I got to use what I consider to be the best parts of each.
(This is the part where I get pelted with rotten fruit by the car buffs,lol)

I'll have to check him out, sounds interesting!
The world she lives in has both normal humans and standard anthros in addition to taurs, who are the rarest of the three,
and so they kind of have the whole "neglected minority" problem going on in some situations, cars for example.
It took a bit of thinking to figure out how a taur could drive a standard car without removing the seats,
but it all snapped into place when I saw my cat laying sideways on the couch reaching for her toy mouse on the floor.
:idea:
Cats are notorious contortionists, though, so Rosie's fix probably would be quite uncomfortable for other types of taurs,
not to mention any standard with a center-mounted gear shift presents its own set of difficulties to a taur, no matter how flexible they are.:XD:
I would like to see how someone else addressed the problems.^^
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