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I think we can all agree that originality is a hard thing to pull off. Not impossible, but still hard regardless. One case that I feel like talking about today are character designs. A lot of you guys know that I manage to draw a lot of my own OC's, which I would like to make a couple of series based on them. Though, some spectators would sometimes point out similarities with already existing characters.
Two OC's that I want to talk about for a bit are Andrew Lillis, and Pamela Floris.
First, Andrew.
Now Andrew is a character that
helped me create. She wanted Abigail to have 2 siblings, one of which being sort of a cross between her older brother, and my older brother. Funny enough, both brothers of ours plays or played the guitar, and formally have black hair that were mullet like at one point. But two of our friends pointed out that Andrew looked a little bit like a character from an anime that they've both watched, Ryuske from Beck. As I searched him up....the resemblance was pretty uncanny.....I've heard of the show in passing, but it never came to my mind while creating Andrew. It doesn't help apparently Ryuske has a sister while Andrew has two...and both are leaders of a band...
Now, Pamela.
Pamela's a character for my other series that's currently in development called "World Revolver". I kinda based her design off a Precious Moments doll Gissy got for me for on May 15th. (Which is the day our friendship started) Now, fans of either Vocaloid or Touhou pointed out the similarities she has with Rin Kagamine and Parsee Mizuhashi respectively. Now, I'm not a huge fan of either franchise, and the ribbon I was thinking more of Kiki or Tsukasa from Lucky Star. While the color was based off said doll.
So as you can tell, both characters do involve in ways. Lately I have been concerned over this, because both characters have rather familiar designs and it kinda discourages me a bit. Especially since both characters I've very proud of. But what do you guys think? You think these characters still look good anyway? Does it matter if they look like other characters or not. Please let me know.
P.S. To those who wished me a Happy Birthday, thanks!
Two OC's that I want to talk about for a bit are Andrew Lillis, and Pamela Floris.
First, Andrew.
Now Andrew is a character that
helped me create. She wanted Abigail to have 2 siblings, one of which being sort of a cross between her older brother, and my older brother. Funny enough, both brothers of ours plays or played the guitar, and formally have black hair that were mullet like at one point. But two of our friends pointed out that Andrew looked a little bit like a character from an anime that they've both watched, Ryuske from Beck. As I searched him up....the resemblance was pretty uncanny.....I've heard of the show in passing, but it never came to my mind while creating Andrew. It doesn't help apparently Ryuske has a sister while Andrew has two...and both are leaders of a band...Now, Pamela.
Pamela's a character for my other series that's currently in development called "World Revolver". I kinda based her design off a Precious Moments doll Gissy got for me for on May 15th. (Which is the day our friendship started) Now, fans of either Vocaloid or Touhou pointed out the similarities she has with Rin Kagamine and Parsee Mizuhashi respectively. Now, I'm not a huge fan of either franchise, and the ribbon I was thinking more of Kiki or Tsukasa from Lucky Star. While the color was based off said doll.
So as you can tell, both characters do involve
in ways. Lately I have been concerned over this, because both characters have rather familiar designs and it kinda discourages me a bit. Especially since both characters I've very proud of. But what do you guys think? You think these characters still look good anyway? Does it matter if they look like other characters or not. Please let me know.P.S. To those who wished me a Happy Birthday, thanks!
..So you know about the Razzies?
In case you don't keep up with awards ceremonies, The Razzie Awards are basically a ceremony that celebrates "bad movies". Movies that were considered the worst of the year, or even all time, basically categorizing which film had the worst acting, directing, the worst movie in general, all that jazz. All of which would be rewarded for a trophy called "The Golden Raspberry." I.E., the last award anyone in the business would want to get. At least as a joke. You may have heard of them through the infamy of Showgirls, Battlefield Earth, Gigli, Jack and Jill, The Emoji Movie, or how I learned about them, Son of the Mask. For 2023, both Marvel and DC tied with four nominations of that year. Now Marvel is no stranger to the Razzies, but it IS the first time a film from the MCU has gotten nominated for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania....how Eternals and Love and Thunder went under the radar is beyond me but whatever. But...what was the DC movie that tied Quantumania in the awards?
Regarding those Nick Trios/Duos
Since a lot of you seem to love it when I do those Nick Trio/Duo picks, I am planning do more of them down the line...except I'm having trouble deciding which ones to do. Actually, I do have SOME ideas...but they also clash with the ideas people leave me in the comments. Such as... Nick Duos of Doug Rugrats TUFF Puppy Planet Sheen Bunsen is a Beast Sanjay and Craig Fanboy and Chum Chum Breadwinners Purple and Brown Robot and Monster The Loud House The Casagrandes It's Pony The Mighty B! Nick Quartets of Penguins of Madagascar The X's The Legend of Korra Action League Now! The Off Beats Rugrats? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pig Goat Banana Cricket ....Only problem is that I might not have many ideas for much more Nick Trios...unless that's really a problem to you guys. But....for once, I'm gonna let those who read this journal decide which Nicktoons I pair up with which set, and maybe I can exchange my own ideas to decide which one sounds better. So.....any ideas?
Planning to bring back Afro Riffs..
And by that I mean, this series of videos I use to do. Why some of you probably aren't asking because you likely forgot that I did these likely? Well, when I first made them, I did have one goal I was hoping to achieve with them....a goal that was incredibly selfish, unhealthy, and really stupid...and once I reached a point where I accepted I wasn't going to get that goal, I just...didn't have the right mindset of continuing making them...especially when I lost speaking terms with the two original co-hosts. But now, (Given that I learned I have a irl friend who use to watch these actually...) I feel like I'm comfortable enough to start doing these again, just so I can have more videos to post, and it could be good practice for editing on DaVinci Resolve. But there's just ONE problem with that....I'm gonna need some new co-hosts. Now, I managed to reconnect with TenshiHanka, but he told me that he has a job now that makes him unavailable to do these, and....I don't want to get into
2023: A Year Recap
Honestly, in hindsight, this was....a pretty good year....for me personally. I won't deny there were certainly awful things going on in the world, but as far as my own personal life, it was quite the step up! But for the sake of it….let’s start with the Bad this time. The Bad: This relates to something that started around the end of 2022, but a falling out with one long term online friend..kinda reached a boiling point. One annoying, but small irl thing caused me to think of all the negative points of that friendship…and it led to an incident that caused the bridge to get worse than it already was…that’s the nicest way of putting it. I’m trying to maybe send something to really make peace with that friend, but…I already got so much going on that I’m not in the biggest hurry sadly.. In terms of my Job Training Program, this year did have some noteworthy changes that took me a while to get used to, but did remind me of the many pains of having THIS be the point in life that I have
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As long as a character is different trait wise, I don't mind lookalikes. Hell, why are twin characters a thing if that's the case? XD