Just because I can and mooncat is such a nice person. ;=3

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mooncat has described something that she calls a "chelioness"; half lioness and half cheetahess. Now this is something that cannot occur in nature, as the lion is from the Panthera genus and the cheetah is from the Acinonyx genus. Add to the fact that lions and cheetahs just don't get along, lions tend to kill cheetahs, as they see them as competitors, you can see that this offspring could/would never happen.

Besides all that, she has drawn some version of a chelioness and I thought it would be neat to do a 3D version of one, so I did, using the DAZ Millennium "Big Cat" series. ;=3



The skin was done by copying parts of the cheetah's skin and pasting them on to the lioness' skin, forming a new skin called "Chelioness". ;=3
Yes, I know that there shouldn't be such a color break along the back, but I was going for a quick skinning process, and who knows, there might just be such a break in the coloration. A tiger's stripes are not just hair/fur color, the stripes are also on the skin, and even if you shaved a tiger bald, it would still show its stripes very plainly.

The body is a mixture of sizes, as could occur if an offspring could/would happen. The over all body size is 95% of that of the lioness. The legs are pure cheetah, while the hips, abdomen, chest and base of the neck vary from 50% cheetah to 75% cheetah, in no particular order (the lioness is the base figure for the "Big Cat" series). I varied the sizes to get a good flow of body lines and to give the chelioness a sleek look like that of the cheetah, while retaining the powerful look of the lioness.

The top of the neck, head and tail are pure lioness, with tail tuft.

So this was an exercise of fancy for a good friend who puts up with me. ;=3

Question is, are you ready for an animal that is almost as large as a lion and possibly could run in the 60 mph range, with probably more stamina than a cheetah?