>>993853
>Why do female animal characters get drawn as more human? If you're going to design anthros? Go for anthros. If it's human go full human. Don't wimp out. It's something I've noticed not just for cartoons but even in other media like videogames.
Always saw it as a mix of designer laziness and/or marketing wanting a character's sex to be quickly identifiable from a glance.
Most real world animals are hard to tell their sex apart, so with fiction it turns into a case of exaggerate some (human) female feature on to the male version (or just add a pink bow, earrings, lipstick, eyelashes).
I want to see more fictional species where can't tell until they actually say it or until you realize what the subtle difference is for yourself. Like for example say a humanoid bird like species where males are brighter colored and females are slightly duller colored while for size females would be on average slightly taller (but not too obviously) than most males. Audio wise there could be difference pitches for voice of each sex. No breasts, no hips, no lipstick, just minor differences between the sexes that may not be obvious at first sight.