#bootleg redesign

[nickolops]

Yoinking AI "art" and turning it into your own original character is very fun and cool and what AI "artists" deserve, but I have discovered an even funnier level beyond that. Yoinking stuff from BOOTLEG VIDEO GAMES and turning it into your own original characters. It's not like they own them anyway, they stole them. That's what I did here, I made my own original character based on this sprite of Princess Peach from Kart Fighter, a Mario Kart themed bootleg of Street Fighter. I named her Princess Punch, because it's funny. She loves combat above all else, so she has to take part in a lot of tournaments or else she will beat up her subjects. She will kick your ass. It's not a question of if, only when.

[loveshotproductions]

Since I’ve been on a bit of a vtuber watching kick lately, I decided to revisit my old redesign of Polar I did last year, the bootleg Miku that the Metaverse tried to pass off, and looking back on the design is very rough looking and just not my best judgment on color choices.

I took inspiration from some of vtubers I’ve been following, mostly from Nijisanji EN and this video on Vtuber designs, and made them look like a cosmic astronaut/android-type character. I definitely nailed the colors this time around and I really love this design.

[loveshotproductions]

If you're confused by the context, let me explain: I decided to redesign this bootleg fursuit based of the “fursuit” that ImJayStation(y'know the 3AM YTuber that's kinda a scumbag I'm sure everyone knows what happened to this guy) in one of his "Buying X from the Dark Web" videos, and one of them was about Furries that featured this particular suit. So I thought it would be nice to give the bootleg a well deserved makeover and maybe give him a new lease on life in the Furry Fandom. Plus, this gives y'all a good visual example for my Custom/Redesign section for my commissions.