These past couple of years being on social media has made me acutely aware of other people's oc's and how they treat them to an extent. It's interesting to see. I've never really thought much about it until lately.
It's weird to me that I didn't REALLY have any OC's until the last 10 years and made a comic around them. However, when I was a little kid, I had an oc called "Bad Mad Kid" which was an abomination mix of Megaman and some lizard monster thing with wings. No idea what spawned that.
When Sonic 3 came out, I made a Sonic OC called Speedy the Chipmunk. OH... and of course I had the Spikeys(Spikies?) which were the "cousins" of the Lemmings(the game). I drew those things ALL the time. I even tried to get other people to draw THEIR own version of Lemming cousins. Not sure why I was so enamoured with them.
I had a friend who was REALLY into comics. So much so that he started to draw his own comics. He even made his own goofy super hero which inspired me to make my own... THE HOT DOG HACKER!!! and Techmaster Kyle ;) Which...technically he created O_O.
The Hot Dog Hacker was a Spikey with Superman powers and Batman utility malarkey. His main villain was the MUFFIN MAN...who was a guy who got turned into a giant muffin..... maybe I was just hungry alot?
Techmaster Kyle was part of my friend's story which I ended up doing a spin off with my character. Think of...Avatar with elements and stuff...but it was WAY before Avatar so... :P! Elements have never been that original anyway.
So, both of were comics we worked on. None of it was digital. It's all on paper...which I still have O_O. Maybe I'll take a pic of them someday or something. Alot of it is embarassing. I guess it's less about not having ANY ocs but more so.. in my 20's when I was too busy getting drunk.. I didn't care too much about having any.
OH! I DID have a character I WANTED to work on in my 20's. Dragoon. He was my edgy too cool for school character. Inspired by Trigun and the Matrix. But.. like I said.. I was too drunk to care about it. I always listened to music to think of moments that would happen but never acted on it. I didn't like how I drew back then so I never gave it a chance.
When I started Animation school and I was around other artists.. I started to get more inspired. They all had their own characters and stuff. I wanted to make my own. THUS, Kenny was born!......... but I didn't really work on him. He was just going to be a Lazy adventurer that did nothing(I made a little snippet about this in one of my episodes)... Thankfully.. I didn't commit to that.
However, years went by... I would get inspired by music I listened to. Draw little moments that I wanted to happen.... but it wasn't until I heard "Chamber of Reflection" cover by Youranxietybuddy that made me start. It helped me connect ALL the dots. For years I was afraid to start. I was also unsure if I wanted to just make it an animation or just a comic. I was like... "Man.. my art is so rough... no one will want to look at it if it looks like poop". I was mostly right about that..but I started it anyway.
I saw other successful webcomics that got made into show (One Punch Man, Tower of God) that started off looking super poopy. That inspired me to just GO FOR IT. 3 years later, I now have 22 episodes and a cast of OC's I LOVE with all of my heart :).
I don't think I've ever LOVED my OC's before. And I think others can tell when they read it. While it doesn't look the greatest... I still get comments from time to time of how invested and emotionally attached people get with the characters. To me... that makes me think I did something right....for once :').
So, to all of you with OC's. You peeps can inspire other knuckleheads like me to create and learn to love their own characters(even if that's not your intention). So, keep going :)
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