#indy's ocs

[indianasolo221]

Meet Pirouetta!

Female (She/Her) | Kitten | Bubbly, Elegant, Inquisitive

Pirouetta is Plato and Victoria's kitten. She was born a year after Grizabella's ascension to the Heavyside Layer, when the situation between the London Jellicle Tribe and Macavity was growing more dangerous. At the loss of both parents, the rest of the Tribe came together to raise her. She is closest to Bombalurina, Mistoffelees, and Tugger, and is usually found in Misto's den. She has no powers of her own, but she is held captivated by the Mystical Cat's magic. She spends her time dancing, listening to her Tribemates' stories, and playing tag with Misto and Tugger.

#cats musical #cats the musical #cats 1998 #cats musical oc #cats the musical oc #jellicle oc #cat oc #pirouetta #plato cats #victoria cats #platoria #platoria kitten #mistoffelees #mr mistoffelees #mister mistoffelees #rum tum tugger #indy's ocs #cat picrew

[0046incognito]

hibiki flying

#my art #original character #character design #oc #robot oc #art #original art #animation #original animation #indie animation #y2k #vhs #fake screencap #cmy2k #hibiki himura

[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

[kiddycup]

working on a new oc zine

#ocs #comic #comics #indie comics #lesbian #wlw #original characters #suggestive

[melamemea]

send me "be honest..." with a question your muse has been dying to ask mine and they'll answer truthfully.

#rp #meme #memes #rp meme #rp memes #oc #ocs #oc meme #oc memes #question #questions #question meme #question memes #development prompt #canon development #oc development #development #indie #indie rp

[rachelh1017]

Hello everyone! I’m happy to tell you I finished all the content of my first comic book about them!! (finally!!!) And the physical copy (traditional Chinese version) will be self-published and sold in Taiwan comic con.

For now, the English version is available digitally as PDF. I have uploaded them onto my ko-fi shop and itch.io, have a look if you’re interested! 💝

And please remember that most of the content has been posted and can be read for free on here or my other socials. This comic only contains one new story (8 pages). Thank you so much for reading this long post.😅 I'll create more new content in the future.🦾

#my ocs #original #life with a robot #comics #indie comics

[kare-valgon]

It's been a year since the Lackadaisy pilot premiered!

Working on Lackadaisy has been a dream come true, thank you for having me on as part of the Lackacrew.

Here is hoping for more boozecat shenanigans!

#Lackadaisy Anniversary #lackadaisy #lackadaisy oc #indie animation #my art #kare draws #sketch #rkgk #lackadaisy cats #boozecats

[theatsthetic]

The Birds of Ballygáire.

thank you so much for reading. i appreciate it.

Special thanks to @terastrialbean for script editing & @junkohanhero for their wonderful typewriter fonts.

#oc #ocs #artists on tumblr #art #lovecraftian horror #lovecraft #horror #tyto alba #barn owl #bird #bird art #pendeedles #comic #comics #indie comic #indie comics #horror comic #teeth #irish horror #horror art #vintage #vintage horror #horror comics #indiecomics #dark fantasy #historical horror #historical fiction #illustrationartists #folk horror

[koboldfactory]

New Song: Supernova Swordsman

Another short song I made over the course of a handful of hours! This time it's a character theme for Killian (sort of)! I took inspiration from the vibes of Axiom Verge and Spiritfarer in terms of instrument choice and whatnot

#koboldfactory #vgm #video game music #indie music #koboldfactory music #oc: killian #Bandcamp

[racheldrawsthis]

Been obsessing over me and my friend's oc lately .. partners in crime (strategic muscle x reckless getaway driver) 🦊🐢🚗💥

Eddie [guy with the tie] belongs to @ekrixart !!

#original character #oc art #character design #indie anime #oc animation #racheldrawsthis

[indianasolo221]

Meet Ramona!

Female (She/Her) | Adult | Outgoing, Protective, Wise

Meet Moriah's sister, Ramona! She is very protective of Moriah, and although they are the same age, Ramona gives off major "big sis" vibes. After leaving Moriah's kitten at a human's doorstep, Ramona continued to visit the human's house in the hopes that she would see her sister's kitten again. Having no such luck, she encouraged Moriah, insisting that if they really wanted to know what happened to him they would have to search the entire city. During this search, Ramona met Tugger, who introduced her to the Jellicle Tribe. They were the family she never had, and suddenly she was torn between helping her sister and staying with the Tribe. Growing tired from their seemingly endless search, Ramona gently asked Moriah if they could stay with the Tribe and rest for a while. Moriah relented, and they've been with the Tribe since then. Ramona holds out hope that they can be happy with their new found family, but her heart aches for her sister and the kitten they lost.

#cats musical #cats the musical #cats 1998 #jellicle cats #cats musical oc #cats the musical oc #jellicle oc #cat oc #ramona #indy's ocs #cat picrew

[catastrothy]

we heard u like fat himejoshi bitches >:3c

#original #vtuber #idrewaweirdcat #demon girl #cat girl #monster girl #envtuber #indie vtuber #a weird cat drew this #oc #cyan #andoufart #andou

[polturn]

Windy animation doodle of my OC Laith. (edit: upped the fps)

#my art #i havent shared much of him but hes also that guy on fire drawing from a few weeks ago #oc #oc art #original characters #animation #2d animation #anim #character design #indie animation #test animation #laith #my oc #animation loop #my animation

[waifusplit]

Y'all are loving the Miss Hazard backview...

#WaifuSplit #Miss Hazard #A-Block #Waifu #indie #oc art #anime and manga #black and white #otaku #weeb #monochrome #artists on tumblr

[elderwisp]

𝔬𝔣𝔣 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔡, 𝔡𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡

#must be the season of the fish ♓︎ #i wish i had his birthday somewhere i'm so mad i lost all dat info #pls this song is still a banger after 14 years #2010s indie bands were built different #finally found an eyebrow piercing to sit on his brow correctly it's over i'm dead #i knew he would be too powerful with one what did i expect #guards!!! after him!!! #oc: atlas #tw blood #simblr #my sims #show us your sims #ts4

[tk-sketches]

Sharing some footage from my little robot murder mystery game - there’s been a MURDER and YOU gotta solve it!! Gather clues! Compare witnesses! Yell at people!! That’s right - we’ve got it all! 

(gonna try to get a demo out when i can!)

#artists on tumblr #indie games #robot oc #robots #pc games #mystery games #mystery genre #concept art #scifi art #cyberpunk aesthetic #illustration #oc #character design #gif art #gif warning #robot murder mystery game