Future Character Creation Idea, Animation Swapping

[NegativeS]

I would be all for adding new, unique animations for all the races, maybe as a Personality choice as mentioned above, but homogenization of the races will just lead to more people playing cat boys.

I play Rogaedyn because I like the animations (and I must really like the animations because male Rog suffer from oversized-robe syndrome), but if I could have the animations on any race, I would probably just become another Fantasia addict.

I don't want that.

[Tsiron]

I mean, sure, but considering the devs seem to constantly be swamped with work, expecting them to make entirely new animations, unique to each race and sex, to bolster existing ones seems a tad unrealistic, which I even highlighted in the OP:

would be far less work than creating new animations from scratch

You've made your points, though, each race's idles and emotes are sacred. For some reason. I personally disagree and, besides maybe some Miqo'te emotes (the most.. cat-like ones), don't see a reason they couldn't work just as well in combination with other races. Heaven forbid female Au Ra get to behave like dignified adults

[Fredco191]

I feel like if this were added, they'd probably limit it to switching between the masculine and feminine animations of whatever race you're playing.

[Syln]

I feel like if this were added, they'd probably limit it to switching between the masculine and feminine animations of whatever race you're playing.

As underwhelming as it would be, I'd take that !

[Evergrey]

I feel like if this were added, they'd probably limit it to switching between the masculine and feminine animations of whatever race you're playing.

Most likely.
But there are those races where the body skeleton/structure is different between the male and female counterparts that SE probably wouldn't even add that minimalistic option due to how it most likely would stretch/compress the mesh of a character.
And seeing how one of SE's reasons why not to add body sliders is because it would mess up the textures of stuff, implementing anything that could cause issues to textures is most likely an instant "No".