I put a new furry avatar together for an event! A red panda! Note, this one is not made of free stuff, sometimes you gotta pay to get what you want 🙂
Cute, or what?! As with most furry avis, there’s a lot going on here. You generally can’t just buy a complete furry, you have to put all the right pieces together. Be warned, this means you need building skills, for this one, mostly texturing skills.
This look is dictated by the skin pack, which contains a BoM skin and mods for the head and ear combination, and the tail. I’m using Lara in the photos but the skin would work for any BoM enabled mesh body.
You could use human legs for this, but I don’t think you’re thinking “furry” enough without digitigrade legs, so this avi uses some fennec legs. These are only partially BoM, you have to tint the feet, but with a little bit of patience, it’s not too difficult.
I used some hand paws that I bought for my snow leopard a few years ago. These are similar to the legs in that you have to tint the fingers, so I just used the same color for the fingers and feet.
The head is what makes this one come alive though! It’s fully bento and comes with a range of expressions and animations, and is perfect for a fox (or a panda in this case). This is also a different version of the head in the pack that you can easily use for a feline, hence the name “Foxcat”. There are a set of fennec ears included with the head, but again, the skin mod is dictating the build, and the required ears are only L$50, and come with some cute twitch animations too.
The tail is really the only bento fox tail worth buying in SL, and I already owned this too.
With a little trawl through my huge collection of hair, I found a group gift from ages ago that suits this perfectly! Et voila!
- Body: Lara by Maitreya
- Skin: !!!redpanda!!! by Kawaii Ghoul (marketplace link, L$250)
- Hand paws: Furry Hand Paws by Catseye (L$499)
- Legs: Fennex Legs by SugarCult (L$449, marketplace link)
- Head: Foxcat Bento Head by Happy Paw (marketplace link, L$280)
- Ears: Puffy Ears by Happy Paw (marketplace link, L$50)
- Tail: Vixen Tail by Aurascape (marketplace link, L$500)
- Hair: Kiwi by Besom (marketplace link, past group gift, no longer available)
- Bikini: Splish by Blueberry (past group gift)
Total cost, not including Lara: L$2028