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Kitten tabby 3ds. High quality 3D model of a kitten, ready for close up and HD renders. - Originally created with Cinema 4D R16 Default Scanline. Full scene with the settings as a preview. - This model contains 9227 polygons with Subdivision Level 0- This model contains 25106 polygons with Subdivision Level 1 Other formats exported as base mesh (not smoothed) and without fur. - All preview images are rendered with Cinema 4D R16 Default Scanline. - There are 8 textures in scene: kitten_tabby_diffuse.jpgkitten_tabby_hair.jpgkitten_specular.jpgkitten_luminance.jpgkitten_normal.jpghair_density.jpg -Texture Resolutions are 4096x4096. eye_light_green.jpgeye_light_green_normal.jpg -Texture Resolutions are 1024x1024. Included HDRI map. - Model is built to real-world scale.- Units used: centimeters.- Object Dimensions : kitten height 30 cm.- Object are organized by layer.- Mesh object is editable poly.

Please RATE this product if you are satisfied.Also check out my other models. Why Watching Cat Videos with 10,000 People Matters. The Grandstand filling up with people early in the night (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) A week ago Wednesday night, I sat down in a green metal chair at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand and watched an hour and a half of internet cat videos on a giant screen alongside 10,000 people. When this little guy licked a vaccum cleaner, 10,000 of us chuckled together; when these sad cats lamented their plight, we all LOLed; when “Lil Bub & Friendz” came on, we cooed over her sweetness. In fact, earlier in the night, when the real Lil Bub had came onstage, after co-host Julie Klausner had asked us to be relatively quiet so as not to frighten her, we all held our breath. Collectively, we avoided loud applause or cheering, and we watched the sweet and royally abnormal Lil Bub attempt to meet another, slightly less abnormal celebrity feline, Grumpy Cat.

Grumpy Cat and Lil Bub “meet” onstage (click to enlarge) Julie Klausner talks to the woman who made that amazing cat butter sculpture. Cats Take Over the Art World. Common journalistic wisdom has it that it takes three examples of a phenomenon to make a trend. 1) Kitty City, a metropolis/playground for cats that was built at Flux Factory in May and unveiled with a kitten adoption drive the first weekend in June; 2) The Cat Show, an exhibition devoted to cats, also with adoption drive (two!) And a zine, opening June 14 at White Columns; 3) Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt, a long-term installation opening later this summer at the Brooklyn Museum that will explore the role of felines in ancient Egypt. And I didn’t even mention last year’s Internet Cat Video Festival, which organizers will reprise this summer, or the Grumpy Cat Art Project at a studio in Alabama. The fact that we love cats is, of course, nothing new. But the art world’s embrace of felines does seem to be at a perceptible high.

Was this inevitable, only a matter of time? Is there some new impetus moving us in this direction? Kitty City at Flux Factory (click to enlarge) Does the Internet love cats or dogs more? Sometimes it’s all just a little too much, right? The stress of just, you know, living your life, man – it’s all got you down. The weight of the world is resting on your shoulders, and no amount of comfort food or coffee or talking it out seems to be cutting it.

And that’s when you turn to the Internet and all its glory for relief. Maybe you go on endless Wikipedia binges, or maybe you update your Pinterest board with how-tos you’ll never complete. Maybe you ravenously consume reaction GIF blogs (me, that’s me, I do that!). Or maybe you just look at pictures of your favorite animal … which, if you’re a true Internetizan, would be the cat. But have we spoken too soon? According to Google … It’s dogs. The search term “dog” has solidly won over “cat” for years now – even in a U.S. We’re apparently searching for dog-related content more than we’re searching for anything about cats. According to Facebook … It’s another win for dogs. According to Instagram … According to YouTube … Dogs FTW? Les chats et la bande-dessinée. La bande-dessinée est l'amie des matous de tous poils.

S'il existe de nombreux chiens célèbres (Idéfix, Rantanplan, Milou, Bill, Pif…) nos amis les félins ne sont pas en reste et occupent une place importante dans l'univers du neuvième art. Animal de compagnie préféré des français selon une étude de la FACCO (chambre syndicale des fabricants d'aliments préparés pour animaux familiers), les chats sont également très populaires dans le reste du monde, notamment au Japon où l'on trouve même des bars à chats, permettant de passer un moment en agréable compagnie féline.

Voici un petit aperçu de ces nombreux matous qui s'illustrent dans la bande dessinée. Si un représentant manque à l'appel (il doit forcément en manquer surtout en mangas), n'hésitez pas à le mentionner dans les commentaires. Le chat de Gaston : Le chat de Gaston est une véritable catastrophe ambulante. Blacksad : Déjà dit, redit et rabâché sur B&O, Blacksad est LE chat le plus sexy de la BD. Billy the cat : Les chats de Bilal : Le mystère des chats peintres : Théorie de l'esthétique féline: Amazon.fr: Burton Silver, Heather Busch. Les matous au cinéma, chat alors ! | Blog Cinéma. IN OUR OWN IMAGE - ANTHROPOMORPHIC CATS.

Why do we project human personalities onto our cats? And why do we like depicting cats in humanoid form? This page looks at exampled human-like cats and cat-like humans in art, literature and real life. There are different types and degrees of anthropomorphism and I've tried to give a few examples of each, but this is not intended to be an exhaustive resource and most readers will know of plenty more.

Anthropomorphism means attributing human characteristics to non-human animals or inanimate objects. It's common in storytelling, for example in the fairy tale "Puss in Boots" and the "Brer Rabbit" stories. Owners frequently attribute human characteristics to their pets. Some owners go further in treating their cats as pseudo-children, including dressing them up in outfits. The main thing is that it's necessary to keep a sense of proportion.

Some degree of anthropomorphism helps us understand cats, but taking it too far makes us lose sight of their "cat-ness".