Toe Total

Zhathnor

I'd stick with the number of toes the species actually has. Falco is a mystery, because how does he fit in those boots with a hind toe? Putting 3 toes on a 4 toed fox or 2 on a bird is odd. Setting a toe standard is also not going to work. You need to be flexible to the species and situation. Long live the paw of every species!

Zhathnor

This conversation is toetally footy

Footpaws

I typically find that an odd by-product of this approach is the inconsistent decision to have pads on 5 toed feet or not as they no longer resemble anything like a paw (Obviously this exudes Ursidae or Procyon types)! I get where your coming from as there is a missed opportunity to have the feet be interesting or thematically correct while humans already have the human look covered nice and distinctly. There are other odd contradictions with how people view this which I wont go into here but its always an interesting one to explore.

Pawerup

3 or 4 toes on my part are both fine. I’m fond of 5 toes irl, but when it comes to anthros I can’t help but find human-like feet dull. It’s not bad, but it feels uninspired. (I can compare it to like how Marvel does it in their movies: they take a basic human, slap green, blue or red paint on it and call it an “alien”)

Xss

Yep, indeed! It's odd: I tried voting for all those the other day but couldn't figure it out. Oh well! ^^

Clair

Four often look better and I'm also not always cosistant with it.

Footpaws

They were quite well drawn and it did become a sort of look for mutant types in the 80s/90s Not sure if you'd count him due to his heel claw but Foghorn Leghorn also comes to mind.

Footpaws

You typically show off more fan art then OC stuff so its good to get your stance!

Clair

4 fingers, 4 toes. Very easy

Torin Otter

Depends on the character imo! I generally like 4 for anthro OCs but the TMNT made me furry from a young age and those 2-toed feet are 👌

Footpaws

To play devils advocate on this one, I do think there is an active effort by the modern sonic team not to be bogged down by foot details. Sonic is a very stylistically designed character (Coolness over sexiness) and part of that design involves overly exaggerated features like hands and feet. They look right because they are both covered by gloves and shoes with a clear boarder of separation, but the moment those come off there's an undeniable proportion problem that makes putting digits on them look weird! So to maintain the style they opted to make the feet look as close to shoes as possible! (Encase your wondering my thoughts, I do think 5 is the correct number for Sonics crew as it is consistent with the number of fingers they have).

Footpaws

It is interesting but I'm sure I'm not the first to make one like this. Its something people can feel passionately about and for me personally its about consistency. Nice to see some stats regarding it though for myself.

3-5 is the range for me. There's a bunch of characters that look cool for each one. 2 is okay, but miss me with 1 or no toed-feet. I'm still incredibly annoyed at the "canon" design for Sonic characters to have these weird, toeless, blob feet. It just makes them look strange and it bothers me.

Hake-Feretto

Personaly it depend of the character fir me ^^. I mostly prefer the 4 toes in general but I appreciate the 5 toes on character supposed to have like Ferret, Raccoon, bears :3 ! I also love 3 toes on cute characters like Fox/cats so if I should said my fav are not exist, I just appreciate 3 toes as much than 4 and 5 toes when the character is fit with thus number UwU ! Still a very interesting pole to do , thanks for this Footpaw ^^

Infernal

Yes a dewclaw, couldn't think of the word

Footpaws

Like a dewclaw then!

Footpaws

I think you can vote for all of those!

Infernal

Hard question, my favorite characters have different toe digits, but i think I'll go with 4 because I love classic dragon paws (3 big toes and 1 small)

Xss

It truly depends I feel...I would vote for 3, 4 and 5 toes if I could. ^^