Photomanip TF - "Limbless One" (alt version no scales)
Added 2022-05-15 10:02:32 +0000 UTCAnother version of the ball python tf that shows off a lot more of the anatomical changes and human flesh. I did this pretty grotesque thing where I had the ribs of a snake start growing down their torso, but it wasn't super visible with the scales.
A discussion I've had with my friend Black Hare who collabs with me is that growing fur, scales, feathers would actually cause so much physical trauma and require so much energy from the body itself that the subject tfing would probably die in the process. More realistically would be their flesh would change into the skin of said animal, and grow the necessary follicles, etc. but then they would grow their fur/scales/etc. over a few weeks like normal once their metabolism has stabilized. The shear amount of energy that goes into growing hair alone (and scales are keratin like hair only harder, more dense, larger, therefore way more energy to form) would result in draining the body of every bit of nutrients which would certainly kill the subject. This might make more sense if the human is turning into a smaller animal, but likely the extra biomass would have to be fed just into the changes itself (which we can also speculate that it might cook the body because of how much energy is being released). Larger animals would require the subject to consume the energy needed for their mass and grow over a long period of time while they are changing.
In any case, the thing we talked about led to wanting to do versions of tfs that are slightly more realistic just in terms of energy consumption of the body. She'd turn into a snake and probably develop some patterning and snake skin, but the scales themselves wouldn't form right away from her body as it would cost way to many resources.
