#not my ocs making that a point

[hellofears]

Slowly giving make overs to sims from @ratboysims ‘ new save file! They have a dog too but Tumblr wants to be awkward and I didn’t change anything about them anyway. I just need to adjust their complexions a bit more (the older daughter mainly) and then they’re good to go!

#ts4 #ts4cc #ts4cas #ts4screenshots #ts4save #ts4makeover #ts4simblr #simblr #the sims 4 #just a makeover #not my ocs making that a point #fearsmakeovers

[sabertoothwalrus]

so I’ve been gaining a lot of insight into the animation industry recently, especially in regards to pitching & the creation of new shows. There’s a few ways to go about it.

First, there’s pitching to a studio. When you pitch, it has to be SHORT and CONCISE. You may write a lovingly detailed pitch bible that perfectly breaks down episodes and characterizations, and it might barely even get read. First impressions, first impressions, first impressions!

Most peoples’ first projects don’t get picked up. I’ve heard a few stories from directors that said they tried pitching a story they’d had for years, which got rejected, to then spend a week or even several hours in their car coming up with a new idea, only for that to get greenlit.

But that’s not the end of it. Just because a show gets greenlit, doesn’t mean it will ever get finished. There’s lots of things that can happen. Sometimes, unexpected major world events (like… a global pandemic) can cause projects to get chopped. Sometimes, a CEO change or studio merge means a single person can decide a project “no longer fits with the company’s brand.” Sometimes, the one producer that was rooting for your project gets laid off, and no one else cares enough, so it gets shelved. Sometimes, a streaming service decides to create an animation department, and then they decide they don’t want it anymore. Sometimes, the studio will be simultaneously be developing another project that was too similar to yours and they just didn’t think to tell you until they decide yours is the one with less potential.

On top of that, almost everyone in the industry is saying that “studios just don’t pick up original content anymore.” Studios want something they can franchise, something that will bring in money. New content is risky. Established fanbases are safer.

However! Studios can still be a very good thing. They can be unionized. They can provide better benefits and resources. They can have connections and infrastructure and a larger volume of workers. At a studio, you can divide the labor and produce more in less time. Longer episodes, longer seasons, more consistency in quality.

But this comes with all of the disadvantages of having more in the kitchen.

The alternative is indie animation.

With indie animation, you have total freedom. Full artistic control. It doesn’t even matter if your idea sucks ass, because there’s no one to tell you you can’t make it. You could make it anyway, and you can make it whatever you wanted.

The thing is, making animation is hard. In my production class last semester, the average maximum animation one person could make in that timeframe was 30-60 seconds, and that’s not even counting background design, sound design, or cleanup/color. To make a 5 minute animated short, you should probably have at least 5 people.

And it is CRUCIAL you have a production manager. Ideally someone who’s not already doing art for the project. Most projects without a production manager will fall apart pretty quickly. Once the adrenaline and impulse-fueled motivation wears off, you need someone to hold you accountable and enforce deadlines and proper time management.

Speaking of time, that’s also hard to get. The more people you have, the more likely schedules won’t line up. Most people will have school, or other jobs.

And it costs MONEY!!!!!! You either have everyone work for free and volunteer their time & energy, or you establish a business as a proper indie studio, with people who may or may not have experience on how to handle paying someone else’s salary. And the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to rely on crowdfunding like patreon or kickstarter. (This, by the way, is why I could never fault an indie animation for releasing merch with their pilot.)

And like, maybe you wanna do a series, and all your friends agree to volunteer their labor and time to make the first episode, but it was unanimously not sustainable. Deciding not to produce a second episode until you can raise enough money is not being suddenly greedy, it’s attempting to compensate people rather than expecting them to be continuously taken advantage of.

You have to consider your output as well. There are some outliers like Worthikids, who afaik does all his animation himself, and afaik can work on it full-time thanks to his patreon subscribers. And he still has only produced a total of 30 minutes of animation (for Big Top Burger specifically) in the past 4 years. This is an IMPRESSIVE feat and this is with using a lot of 3D as part of his pipeline!!

Indie animation also has the complication of being more accessible for fandoms. When you’re posting your Official Canon Content on youtube, it doesn’t look a lot different than the fandom-created video essay in the sidebar next to it. What’s canon vs what’s fanon becomes less distinguishable. The boundaries are blurrier. When the creator is just some guy you follow on twitter, it’s easier to prod them for info regarding ships and theories and word-of-god confirmation. They don’t have a PR team or entire international tv networks to appeal to. And this is when creators get frustrated that their fans snowball and turn their creation into something they don’t recognize (and no longer enjoy) anymore.

So it’s tricky.

Thankfully, the threshold to learn animation is fairly low nowadays!! There are TONS of resources online to learn it on your own without forking over a couple hundred thousand to a private art college. There are conventions and discord servers and events where you can network, if you know where to look.

I know it can seem discouraging in the face of capitalism, but I think that’s all the more reason why it’s so important to BE DETERMINED about animation!! We’re already starting to see the beginning of an indie animation boom, and I think it’s a testament to humanity’s desire to tell stories and create art. Even if there’s no financial gain, we do whatever it takes to tell our stories anyway.

#animation #2d animation #indie animation #long post #not 100% sure why I made this post #all this to say: I’m still not sure what direction I want to go towards for my own show #ngl!! i think im confident i could get people to like my show. i think I could find an audience #i have some experience at this point getting people to like my ocs #its just a matter of MAKING the damn thing

[saltycharacters]

[ID: Various digital doodles mostly featuring Reigen Arataka and Serizawa Katsuya from Mob Psycho 100. The 1st is a parody of the "Wow Fluttershy, did you eat my Forever Weed Brownie?" comic, redrawn to feature Reigen as Pinkie Pie and Serizawa as Fluttershy. The next image is a doodle compilation of Serizawa, showing him with different expressions and poses. Similarly, the next artwork consists of Reigen expression and pose doodles, with some cameos from Mob, Tome, and Teruki. Finally, the last image is a short comic featuring the artist and a friend. First two panels show them watching a random MP100 scene, which is then followed by the friend stating, "I would NOT let Reigen preform brain surgery on me", to which the artist bursts out laughing from the absurdness. The next comic has the artist saying, "Rip to you but if my girlfriend offered to preform brain surgery I would let him", which then causes the friend to throw both hands in the air with an exasperated, "Yeah 'cuz he's your WIFE!" End ID]

MP100 Doods

#in reference to the last comic if u ever want someone to stream mp100 for u #or just want a little group to talk about mp100 #i got a discord for that :] #bonus points if u never seen it i love introducing it to ppl #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #reigen arataka #serizawa katsuya #my art #serirei #the weed comic was for 4/20 yesterday inspired by my friend Doc making a similar comic with his ocs

[kociamieta]

haha ha hi @simcardiac-arrested . im afraid i like her

#save me BD+02°2489. Or . well uh. do what you do best #my art #others’ ocs #should make a separate tag for cream’s characters at this point

[homkamiro]

draw them KISSING? FRENCH KISSING? grhrrhhrhrhhrhahahhr

I don't know who did you want me to draw french kissing session with, but since i already drew speeding bullet kissing before i went for yuri

#they are practically my ocs at this point i love these women #haven't seen each other for 3 days and started making out for 3 hours the second they see each other again #dogs #team fortress 2 #tf2 #team fortress 2 fanart #tf2 fanart #tf2 scout #tf2 sniper #sniperscout #speeding bullet #fem fortress #tf2 femscout #tf2 femsniper

[fishfingersandscarves]

falls to my knees...koh/wyll cinderella au

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #wyll ravengard #illustration #bg3 tav #wyll/koh #i gotta make a tag for them at this point #koh (oc)

[artsoflilo1]

New character for a new storyyyyy 🙈🙈🙈🙈 These two are gonna be a part of a college assignment I’m working on. Hope you guys like them!

I also did a bunch of thumbnail sketches of them in different scenarios. Kinda rushed it, so sorry if it’s too sloppy to make out 💀 I’ll probably end up making cleaner sketches of them later

#cartoon art #original character #my ocs #character design #puppet #aesthetic #fall #autumn #scarecrow #Lilo the scarecrow #the crow #original story #original art #thumbnail sketch #ref sheet #The Crow is literally Lilo’s father figure I don’t make the rules #well I do but that’s besides the point #every warm and playful character needs a grouch to take care of them #at least imo

[suntails]

hijo de la luna

#okay FIRST off. song by mecano my friend said is soooo silver and it is. like. the story steers off his course but its still his song #SECOND. this isnt Actual hollow moon fanart but it is in my heart. ive reread ell's fic 3 times now and every time it kills me. KILLS #go read it. hollow moon by serenescribe. its a 40k oneshot of silver slowly but surely being moon snatched. its delicious #the tumblr crowd already knows how swagalicious ell is tho i dont need to sell it to u. the munchiest crunchiest writing ever. mwah #but yes. i want silver to be made of moondust. i want him to shimmer and glow white as snow i want him a MOON CHILD #also i do Not make OCs bc im not creative but i think his roommate is a vil fan and eats oatmeal and likes sil's birds #by proximity. doesnt care for animals otherwise. he also has a crush on silver he told me himself #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #if catríona suntails doesn't draw a dramatically lit background then what's the point #suntails

[egophiliac]

We ARE going to bring up Captain Amelia. You have good taste! GOOD TASTE I SAY! *aka I just rewatched Treasure Planet and got hit with, "Oh yeahhhhh... that explains a lot!"*

honestly, the Meg/Jasmine/Amelia trifecta tells you 90% about me as a person. (the rest is covered by Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Uranus and, uhhh, I'll stop baring my soul to the world now)

and speaking of Amelia, this is tangential, but like -- there's one Twst comic I have been kicking at for a while where I needed an RSA sports/flight teacher and, uh, well

someday I will wrangle this stupid comic into coherency and she'll get to make an appearance (in the background of a single panel, half-obscured by a tall hat) (but I will know she's there and that's the important thing)

#art #twisted wonderland #twst oc #my plan worked i've tricked you all into looking at my anime catgirl oc #she exists to yell at some rsa boys so she doesn't really have like. a character or story or anything. sorry! #(her name is alexandria north and that is what she considers a sporty outfit. that's as far as i got) #this is the one that is mainly about silver and neige having a mutual bluebird friend and i am having terrible trouble making it not suck #which given some of the stuff i post should tell you something about how it's going so far #(it's just kind of an incoherent mess of ideas at this point. nothing specific just ~the creative process~) #maybe the rest of episode 7 will give my brain the kickstart it needs. depends on how that goes i guess #god. the next episode 7 bit drops in (probably) just a few days. #I'M NOT READY #i have simultaneously never been ready and always been ready #i exist in a perpetual state of impatience

[cinnamon-flame]

I'm trying to figure out a Winter design that I like, this one is okay but I feel like I can do better

#It just doesn't feel like him you know? #I feel like I should make him either all white with like frost pattern or a white to blue color point #we'll see this isn't the last you'll see of me trying to figure this guy out #I've been making little animated icons for my art fight profiles #and I wanted to test out how it would look on a wof design before I do them for my ocs #and Winter was the guy I had the most motivation for #I might do a little animated matching icons for Moon and Kinajou #that idea has been bouncing around in my head for a while #it would be cute #wof #wings of fire #icewing #wof winter #dragon #cinnamon's doodles

[jascurka]

betrayed by his own son (that he doesn't know where he came from)

#mp100 #toichiro suzuki #suzuki shou #toichiro tag #comic #mob psycho 100 #making that man my oc basically at this point

[chocodile]

N...Neopets AU Hyden......bro would be the first cybunny to end up in the Gallery of Evil

Gallery of Evil - Lord Hyden

Lord Hyden was advisor and high court wizard to Lord Darigan, serving under him alongside Lord Kass during the events of Champions of Meridell. Scheming, duplicitous, and power-hungry, the Cybunny advisor had his own motives, playing the two against each other and eventually assisting Kass during his hostile takeover of Darigan Citadel. However, when Kass fell and the citadel was reclaimed, Lord Hyden was nowhere to be found.

Some say he was defeated during the battle. Others say Lord Darigan sentenced him to jail for his crimes during the war and that he is currently being held in a high-security prison cell deep within the citadel. Still others claim he fled after his betrayal was discovered and is currently living in disguise, hiding somewhere in Neopia.

Some years after his disappearance, rumors began to circulate of a powerful Kyrii wizard taking up residence in an old castle in the Haunted Woods. It is said that he offers travelers dark spells in return for signing dubious magical contracts. Could there be any relation...?

Additional period-appropriate art of this totally real Neopets character. First is him during his Darigan years with his evil bride Milana... er, "mate", sorry child-friendly censors! Second is him post Mutant Kyrii-fication, lording over his "neutral gray with transparent black shading" evil castle in the Haunted Woods.

#neopets #neotag #neopets art #darigan #cybunny #kyrii #thank you anon this restored my hit points and art vigor after a long period of malaise #an excuse to do Neopets style emulations! One of my favorite things! Had fun making them a bit janky. #Cybunny is great for him but I can't deny that Mutant Kyrii is even better #it's a big hulking brutish blue orb with an aquiline nose and big rectangular black eyebrows #so he gets to be both :) #my ocs #hyden #milana #style emulation #...the period appropriate art is supposed to be smaller but it was blurry on the dashboard so here's a slightly bigger version #(it looks better smaller)

[cloudcastor]

snakeskin 🐍

#my art #original art #oc #trans artist #i know i’m known at this point as just a soriku artist but 2023 is the year i let myself make original art and not be terrified of sharing #i wanna just make art and not care ! #just make the stuff that i want to do

[clownpalette]

I made the memes again!!! 😲😲 with almost all ocs this time! 💫💫

#at this point im just making fun of Libris #these are so fun to make!!! fr #pls send me more templates to fill #dm me if you want the blank templates💞 #no templates are mine! disclaimer #feel free to get inspired 🫶 #oc #my ocs #funny meme #funny stuff #funny #oc artist #artist #small artist #sillyposting #ocs #oc stuff #original character #oc meme #original characters #funny memes #meme #my oc character #my oc stuff #my ocs <3 #artists on tumblr #my oc

[zivazivc]

guess who

I've seen a few artists I like making human art and I got inspired to make my own.

First version was based just on their character designs and personality, and what inspired their look in the first place. Second version happened when I took into account their backstory and what I imagine human versions of their parents' would look like. I don't consider either of these "canon", because to me they're just trolls but it was a fun experiment to try.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming of me drawing little colorful dolls

#my dumbasses 🫶 #ex bandmates #trolls oc #hed #les #dreamworks trolls #trolls #human trolls #my art #Trolls genres are weird and even though I can see them kind of as different human races (along other things) #I don't think you can compare them with real world races/nationalities. #As in I don't think you can point at a troll genre and say it's the equivalent of x race. #For me it varies from troll to troll even between trolls who are related. #So making a 'perfect' human version of these two brothers started feeling more and more like #like a mission impossible the more time I spent on this... #So these drawings are just two attempts #and I wanted to share. #also on a different note #the first les's hair is supposed to look pretty greasy. can anyone tell? (bc a friend said they can't see it) #and i feel like the first hed doesn't fit stylistically with the rest #probs because i drew him first. after not drawing a human for like 4 months (such is the life of a troll obsessor) #but i do love how he looks so i didn't want to go in and redraw him #also i don't have any more motivation for this and i just keep focusing on and picking at lil details #so i'm posting to get it off my hands :P

[smokbeast]

I have some scribbles here and there but I haven’t had time to fully clean em.. but sombra concepts I been cooking with @skelekins and his oc imi taming sombra’s beaft moments,,

#We call the ship starlit night and it’s my favorite fucking thing;;;;; #Sombra and imi take my brain every so often and it makes me so emo #I was thinking sombra has moments where his corruption goes really bad when he has too much negative energy and it deforms him to a point #that he loses clarity and goes feral mode. He’s already a pretty monsterous entity on his own but the corruption just made it tenfold #so kin and I were thinking imi balances it with their wub for he;;; #and I’m just WAGNHNnhn;; #but yeah.. also dream concepts sneak peak and a passive sombra #dream is called sueño in my au to go with sombra’s name cause I’m silly like that and I gotta add Spanish in everything KFJGJ #so they both speak Spanish LMAO #but yeah.. #art #my art #my ocs #undertale ocs #sombra #nightmare sans #nightmare #dreamtale #passive nightmare sans #dream sans #sueño #friend ocs #imi #undertale au #undertale fanart