#ocs at that point

[kimquatz]

process of drawing an OC: - you design them - you get attached to them - their hair gets bigger without you realizing it

#it's always the hair #tbd maybe LOL #one of my OCs rn their hair keeps getting longer every time i draw it... #i'm tryna keep it to their shoulder blades but at some point it started reaching their hips and i was like. Wait.

[charon-cries]

artists, this is ur reminder to start drawing references or redesign your original characters before artfight in july this year

edit: if you dont know what artfight is, here's the link to the info page:

#i'm doing my yearly nick & deo redesign #honestly it's legally required at this point #artfight #original character #ocs #artists on tumblr #echolocating

[sevinite]

a modern witch and their familiar

#illustration #digital art #oc art #my art #love you george love you merlin. he is big as fuck bc he is a maine coon btw #i don’t really like coloring fur it is a pain in my ass but i had to for him #george is actually an ESPer btw. but oomf pointed out that they are basically witch and familiar so #george would def think of merlin as her familiar

[bamsara]

Woe take these cultists...banding together against a common enemy: that three-eyed cat that hangs out with The Lamb. Plus Jayen. Poor Jayen.

They're just supposed to be side characters but can you tell I've gotten attatched to them

#trod au #the rehabilitation of death #tyren oc #jayen oc #grekimar oc #narilamb implied but its not the focal point here #the focus is that these guys hate narinder lmslnlskdghlsdg #cult of the lamb #doodles

[cyani07]

something unholy

( happy halloween ! )

#mcyt #tntduo #quackity #wilbur soot #my art #they are like my ocs at this point

[zipsunz]

every day, sunrise to sunset 🌇

#omori #omori sunny #omori kel #omori mia #the puppy in the last doodle is named mia! i think hector would've stayed back home with sally even after kel got his own place since he #was already around 10 by that point #and these are vaguely set in his senior years/after his passing ;w; #omori sunkel #sunkel #ocs #my art

[mourninglamby]

xoxo

#sad soidraw self indulgent pretty stuff #points if u get who the lamb is #it’s easy lol #c!tommy #my art #my ocs #dsmp

[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

[torturedpoetemotions]

I love an "I can't believe I'm in love with this idiot" dynamic. Where person A is just The Worst and person B is like "no accounting for taste, mine specifically, but what can I say? I like them."

#this is all my ships at some point tbh #but specifically #destiel #(cas about dean) #nandermo #(guillermo about nandor) #and my ocs too lmao #BOTH allison and tam about bridget

[dovewingkinnie]

hi guys this story is my excuse to draw cuddling (and men in masks COUUUUUUGH) climber nearly freezes to death in a mountain but then pretty otherworldly being is like: hey.. i can help..... 🥺🥺

#oc #oc art #im not even trying to hide it at this point #no more shame

[cemeterything]

what is your oc making process?

what if there was a fucked up guy

#youve heard of making up a guy to get mad at. making ocs is just that but with the starting point of #'wouldnt it be so fucked up if a guy like this was real'

[canisalbus]

✦ 2023 summary of art ✦

#CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumblr #own art #own characters #yea you can sort of tell when this train got derailed #there's pre and post Vasco 2023 #the good thing is I've been more productive this year than in past 5+ years combined #haven't had this much fun drawing in ages I hope it shows at least in some way or another #unless something really drastic happens I'll probably continue along this trajectory for a while #I might reach a saturation point eventually but there's no way of knowing when that'll happen #so I'm just going to try to make the most of this intense and self-indulgent oc art period #your feedback and support mean a lot to me I hope this year will be as good as 23 #thank you for bearing with me #the missing month is March I didn't post a single thing in March #cw blood #blood #cw gore #gore #cw head injury #head injury

[bunnygirllover45]

all I think about is you.

#have you've been hyperfixated on something before? #to the point of obsession? #yeaaahhh... #yandere #male yandere #yandere boy #yandere oc #magical girl #original art #original character #monthly reminder that I like magical girls a lot. #tw self h4rm

[shiraishi--kanade]

Make your own proseka OCs. Make your own proseka unit. By god, make it. If you have an idea, go with it. Proseka lore allows for boundless opportunities. They don't even have to be musicians to have a Sekai. They don't even necessarily have to be in Japan. Project Sekai as a game is a love song to art and artists. You are one. Go nuts.

#jay rambles.txt #project sekai #I will probably start talking about my ocs at some point once I have more solid groundwork for them and am Ready to begin writing #but I really think we lack original content here I see so much more ocs in most other rhythm games

[rookclan]

moon 2: congrats jellyfish, cat who dislikes all of the kits in the clan!

#she has dislike points ONLY for puffer and plover why is she having kids #i saw it and was like oh my god. why #jellyfishshade #wc oc #warrior cats oc #art #oc #clangen #rookclan

[spicymancer]

Monster Researcher Eclair and the Haunted City (Part 4) This is a collection of art from a series Choose Your Own Adventure polls I ran on twitter a while back! Please enjoy!

More info about catgirls. We're in the home stretch with just a few bits left.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

#monster researcher eclair #oc art #monsterfucking cw #catgirl #Andie is blushing because she's a half-elf #Elves in this setting also have heat cycles #I'll do a comic about that too at some point.