Everything is fine anyways But here's the hardest part The name

Wanna know what sucks? When you make a really awesome OC, you give them a very interesting personality and stuff, and you feel very proud of yourself for making such an enjoyable character... But you can't for the the life of you decide on a name.

RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE APART OF THE I NEVER INJECT MY OC INTO AN ALREADY EXISTING FRANCHISE SQUAD.... Only me? I'll sit down

A LOT of my ocs are based of my dreams XD

nothing is ever truly original, not even yours

even words aren't original

Your idea is really good,but I just want to say: trying to do a OC that is entirely new and that doesn't look like any other OCs is like trying to create a new color

A famous Brazilian phrase states that: "Na internet, nada se cria, tudo se copia" or "In the internet, nothing is created, everything is copied"

Question, you make an OC, you love it's design, and you haven't seen anything else like it. You show all your friends, and suddenly people start recognizing it as some other anime character or something. You end up dumbfounded to find that an almost exact copy of your character is in a famous anime that you have not seen before, and you feel as though they had stolen it. What do you do?

Five short sentences to condense an entire character? No wonder the people gave you mostly physical appearances.

What if it's an idea that came from your own mind (like you just suddenly imagined it) but then you're drawing it and then some random person is like "oh that looks like this person in this show that you have never watched but I'm gonna say you stole it anyway!" (i'm not trying to be offensive. just wondering. cuz this could happen in writing stories too. it could have a similar concept but a totally different actual plotline and characters)

that's kinda unfair to name and shame the people who YOU asked to give descriptions of their ocs. There are so many characters everywhere now that it's hard not to have your character alike another. When I make my ocs I tend to find a character a lot like my oc and I used to change my ocs immeadiately as I didn't want to be hassled as a copy cat, but then the changed character was alike another character. It's like humans, somewhere out there someone has your exact name and someone out there who's pretty much your twin. Also I don't get the hate on people who colour in pictures to make them ocs, maybe it's just because I got friends who do it but what matters is the oc itself, not the quality of the drawing. But I only dislike it if they say they drew the copied line art.

i mad a oc wiht two eyes and i sav anoter oc tat have eyes!!1!!! tey copied my oc so muhc!!!!!!1

A lot of my OCs are based on myself and random ideas that show up in my mind. I've started developing a storyline and world for them as well

Whoops, I thought original character meant our own created character. :")

I made toast and it jump scared me ;-;

um, not to sound like one of those defensive people? I totally get where you are coming from, and yes, the way that you did your experiment would most CERTAINLY yield very similar results. Yes, a lot of character have short black hair a lot of characters will have green/brown/orange/gold eyes a lot of characters will have breasts. (Shocking I know!) Lots of character have scars and there are only so many personalities that can be given to to a type of character But appearance is not everything, which is essentially what you based your entire experiment on. You can only determine so much from appearance? It's really the background that gives the character life. How they go about their lives, their quirks, their hobbies etc. You can't really GRASP anything in 5 sentences. SHORT sentences at that. Describe your own characters like that and guess what? Sounds like a mary sue. I'm not saying people don't do recolors and make awful AWFUL mary sues, because lets face it, they do. But try to look a little deeper than the surface???? and....maybe you all came up with similar designs because your all friends? and most likely share similar ideas and interests? ....Also, another thing, people that usually reply first on those sorts of OC requests or whatever it's called, usually DO have mary sue characters. People that take more time with their ideas, will not reply until probably MUCH MUCH later. So, thank you anyone who decided to take the time to read this, because details are all original characters are about. depth depth DEPTH and the amount of care that you put into them. Thank you.

When you said " discovering more about your OC's", it made me think about my characters, Lucyna and Pamela. I wanted them to be sibling - like BFFs, and one day I looked at their relationship, and I realized " Oh My God, they are totally in love with each other". So now they are lesbian couple, and I often joke about how my own OC's tricked me behind my back.

i honestly dont understand the point of this video, 5 sentence is never enough for describing a character, and at the end the person will most likely draw what they have seen before. Thats why they all look the same, bc generic descriptions make generic characters. Also, the fact that in anime there are characters that look like other characters from other animes, is done for marketing. There are certain character designs that sells more than other, for example, there was an article that said that "the shy, mysterious, kudere, intelligent girl with black hair who is from a superior grade or student counselor president" its prefered by japanese men, that trope has been used numerous times in anime. Characters with brown/black hair, glasses, nerdy or shy type, inteligent are aslo likeable bc the common reader (in this case the typical otaku) identifies with them. Girls with pink hair and unrealistic personalities are considered sexy bc they are imposible to get. And the list goes on. Thats why in anime there are so many characters that look and feel the same, bc its all a marketing trick

What if someone didn't know who any of the anime characters? Are they unoriginal even if they didnt know thatbte characters existed?

I understand the point you are trying to make, but this 5 sentence experiment proves nothing. These people described their characters so you can draw them. So of corse all the artists are going to draw the same character! That was the point! Plus the artists mind has a lot to do with how the picture turned out. Like how you and that other artist gave the same character pigtails. That might not even have been in the mind of the creator. Just in the mind of the artist and how they generalize certain people. I think this whole subject of original characters is to big for anyone to tackle. There are so many exceptions. And quite honestly we all get ideas from somewhere. A song we once heard, a person we once new, a scene from a movie, a quote from a book. If we literally came up with something completely void from anyone else's ideas it would be a blank paper. Our knowledge is always derived from somewhere so even our thoughts are unoriginal.

i agree you have to have a somewhat original premise for a character, and an original design. but as far as similarities, character archetypes, and tropes, there's _nothing_ inherently wrong with those. what matters and where your ability should lie in your writing a fictional character is *being able to build off of those things.* give them contradictions, idiosyncrasies, secrets, doubts, fears, flaws, positive qualities, try to think about them, who they are, their experiences, etc, from every angle.. a good character is a character who, while likeable, feels real. feels tangible, and like you could relate to them.. they feel real and they interact with the story they're in in a real way. if you wanna make the tsundere loli, or the misunderstood, shy loner, or the aloof, cynical badarse, you do that, but if you're serious about the character you're making and you want them to be *good,* you need to build them. (and also break them like geodes)

I like how you brag that yours is original and no body else is. :l It's also extremely hard to make an original character

lmao i just make up my characters that aren't based on no fandom

Can't help myself but from your talking of yours I sense the "Noone of you can do original character but me" attitude. You cannot acomplish true originality. Because if you do anything, description to it would lead to at last 5 characters already created. Not me, nor you will ever make anything completely original. And why? It is because how your brain works - your originality is simply mashing up something you saw/heard before in your life. You think your character has original personality? think hard about how it is similar to someone you know, or character you liked in something. Totally original look? Nope, mashup of something you saw. To make it little more obvious - your two creations by description - left is spiced up tinkerbell/you with some random detail in background and second is avatar character(the last airbender/korra) styled clothes/Diana (League of Legends)/something i don't know by name but saw it like two weeks ago in some game. You cannot be original because human brain can't produce original things - you can't make up something you don't know. Hope you understood what i tried to say

that moment your whole life was a lie and thought oc meant own character. ·ー·

I think this is a bit harsh, yes the word OC is hilariously inaccurate, but you seem to be making it out that ALL "OC's" or fan-made characters are badly made, unoriginal, recolors, or Mary sues, which just isn't the case, and you'd be insanely close minded if you think that is true.

i meanwhile read "oc" as "own character" because ofc you can't create something truly original anymore. pretty much everything has already been used somewhere. interesting video. also i like your voice and way of talking :D i love the question about how well does one know their oc

*Gasp* Your characters have hair!? Wow so unoriginal! I think the reason people are "so unoriginal" is because of the MANY terms anime has for character tropes, and the fact that everything has already been done, which is why you can so easily call out their "unoriginality"... because nothing can ever be purely "original" anymore.

isn't the character, being in fanfiction or fanart, a FAN CHARACTER and not and original character...?

I'm still confused as to how you expected super original characters when people were only allowed 5 short sentences to include all you wanted [yet you still chose ones that didn't even meet all the criteria? or maybe I didn't see it but I'm pretty sure just about none of them had theme/backstory and such lol]~ I mean fur example; my ONE oc takes up at least 2-3 paragraphs on purrsonality alone if I shorten it. Not including details, appearance, and such. Like god damn no wonder people were rather vague. there's no way you can fully describe anyone with all that you wanted in just 5 short sentences lol. Also shouldn't the other artists have done the OCs you described as well too? ._ .

I think this little experiment of yours has a lot of flaws. The goal of the experiment seemed to be to point out how uncreative people are in their character designing but instead, you only revealed how uncreative you and your friends can be with your designs. There’s two big problems with this video: the descriptions given were too vague to be used for proper criticism of the characters themselves and all the actual criticisms of the characters were actually faults in the drawings. Any character given a vague enough description will sound like a bad design. Simply stating that a character has blonde hair, for example, doesn’t tell me if their hair is too short to grab a handful of or if it’s so long it touches the ground or is super curly or very straight or strawberry blonde or ‘so blonde it’s white’ or anything interesting, really. Character designs can’t be judged when all you have is ‘their hair is blonde.’ The vague nature of these descriptions might not allow for much criticism on the character itself but it does allow the artist a lot of freedom in drawing and further designing the characters. And in that field, you and your friends didn’t do so well. The designs you guys came up with were rather generic and many looked very similar to one another. This can only be faulted to your crew since the vague nature of the descriptions did allow for a wide variation of designs. I think this experiment can be used as a good art project. Randomly selecting vague character traits and designing a character out of it can be great practice. But using this experiment to criticize the creators for your poor designs is a big misstep in my opinion.

And she then expected to judge all OCs off of 5 lines of quickly made characters from most likely inexperienced creators

trigger warnings, insulting peoples creativity and then basically saying your brilliant compared to everyone else... that's reason enough for me to never watch another one of your videos.

Now I'm not gonna post my OCs on deviantart, its only a matter of time where someone like you will shame it and my confidence will drop dramatically.

So you're saying that people who make OCs lack backstories, and only focus on physical appearences?

Wait. Isn't the thing about an OC to be original? Therefore be completely independent from fandoms? Isn't that otherwise called a Fan Character? ._. (I know people misuse the term badly.)

Everything in the bloody world that is created is based off of things we see or have seen. It's called drawing inspiration from the things you like, why make a character that you don't like? There's no point. Tbh if you were picking at people's sonic 'ocs' or something where they literally just re-colour sonic or shadow and call it blonic or some shit XD The things you're picking at are generally fine, (also i have no idea what pigtails have to do with your point, sorry). The REAL issue with OCs are people literally just changing a colour pallet on an already existing character calling it their own, then giving it some convoluted back story that makes it somehow related to the character they re-coloured, and that is the real BS of OCs

The urban dictionary definition for oc is extremely off and the fact that you based your opinion off that already makes this illogical. Actual Oc's are something you make using your creativity and imagination and a character based off a character from a major franchise isn't even technically an original character in the first place. The majority of people don't make oc's on the intention of making them just like a character from a major franchise. Also it really bothers me that you think that no one's oc's besides yours are original and that you know everything and are completely right because that's obviously not the case if your basing your opinion off an incorrect definition of Oc. I was actually interested in what this video had to offer because I can agree that many oc's these days aren't that original but you're so ignorant it made everything you had to say bullshit. You took it from a completely wrong angle. You're focusing it on how everyone's oc's are the same basis these days

Yeah your right. Everyone else is completely unoriginal and your completely original.

Love your oc's but I feel like I've seen these characters before and I've never been to your channel before.... That owl looks a lot like the one in fairy tail..... And the boy in front of the owl is a lot like susuke from naruto.... Girl with glasses like hanji from attack on Titan. With the hair glasses etc. Purple hair girl looks like the girl from Tokyo ghoul that kaneki likes at the beginning from Tokyo ghoul etc. Brown haired girl looks like haruhi from oran high school host club when she had long hair. Green haired guy looks like Lubbock from akame ga kill, darker brown haired girl looks like revy from black lagoon, black hair girl looks like nana oasaki from the anime nana, and the light blue hair character looks a lot like yoshino from date a alive....

If all OCs are self insertions then what do you call characters that are purely your work?

I guess we've become truly unoriginal. I mean, it's the internet, nothing's truly original at this point, hell, I can make an OC desc right now and people would SO LINK SO MANY references: 1. Male, is a 6-footer, black hair, a little bit muscular figure with blue eyes. 2. Wears superhero-like spandex with a lightning bolt as a logo on the inside and a trenchcoat on the outside. 3. Wields 2 katanas and pistols, and uses the element of electricity. 4. Used to be part of a group that brought peace to a world war until it disbanded. 5. Strong, stoic and gruff most people, but happy, more relaxed around his family. Eh, I'm flawed, and that's not all the character is, but hey, 5 sentences, right?!

I don't really think the characters she designed were very original or unique either :'D I mean the ones that were submitted weren't, but I don't think hers ended up much better really. And I think the people who got the free commissions were giving physical descriptions because, well, their characters were getting drawn. If you wanted more than that out of them you should have given them a few sentences for physical description and then had them do a brief description of the personality and backstory. Even if it ended up unoriginal then, though, most of the people who have these OCs are young kids and teens. You'll notice if you peruse deviantART for a while that a larger amount of older users have better thought-out OCs, with more unique twists and originality. I think everyone starts out pretty bland. It takes time and thought to grow to the point where you can confidently create something fresh.

I think all of this is BS.

No character is original, hell you yourself may just be a rehash of an already existing person.

everyone over age 10 has probably made an original character *We all made horrible stick men at some point*

I thought the video was gonna be an interesting, serious video made by an actual intelligent human being but the intro the intro gave me a heart attack and maybe brain cancer. it also made my ears bleed. the point is, I was wrong.... still subbing tho so don't hate me.

I love you for that Rurouni Kenshin reference I swear. Platonically of course.

There's nothing original.

Do I need to answer the question? If yes, Yes I know my OCs pretty well, from their days of birth to their own deaths.

What's that? A shy, social awkward character? Must be emo!

What is the deal with BANDAGES?!

If your character can be accurately described with just 5 sentences, it's not a good character. If there isn't a reason for your character to look the way they are or do the things they do, it isn't a good character. Even the definition of "Original Character" is cringey. This makes me want to stop calling myself an "Artist" or a "writer"

So you mean to say, that archetypes are villainous and that everyone in the world is so seperate from eachother that they could never relate to another person in the slightest... seems legit.

Easy way out: "Oh, I know my OC super well because it's actually me shoved into the context of the world they're in!" *pretty much every bad OC ever*

I'm sorry, I died if the cringe when she read off those characters who were requested to her. Jesus, people don't know how to make a character even if they knew how. At least when I come up with a character, I make them relatable and realistic as I possibly can depending on what their story I'm writing them in is about.

To be honest your two descriptions are all somewhat unoriginal in a way... Perhaps the second description not so much, but the first one is definitely too overdone, even counting the background. And there are some loop holes in your central idea, about your question regarding how unoriginal characters had become using persona 5 as an example, all of them came from modern and somewhat similar backgrounds, and that is a common haircut in real life. You don't just expect every one under a modern setting to have crazy unrealistic yet "original" anime hair, do you? Before debating about the originality of characters, check out the setting. Overdone settings give overdone characters(. And sometimes, characters can be too designed, with people adding numerous unnecessary things in a miserable attempt to make their characters more "interesting" and "original", these types of characters tend to fall flat personality-wise or cannot fit into the setting/story smoothly, easily OOC.

you don't really base originality in characters on personality. many ppl can share the same personality. you would have to go into more detail to see a difference. a vague and verbal one sentence description? How do you expect to get originality and detail out of that?? That's not freedom.

Lmao, I hate listening to other artists.

Lol. I clicked cause I saw Ed.

This is a rather old video and I hope you've realized that your way of seeing OCs isn't bad, but it is hardly accurate. 'Most of them are just Mary Sues and copy pastes?' Are you serious? A true Mary Sue/'bad' character is hard to find, in my opinion. I've seen my fair share, but the number of characters by that are unique far overwhelm these 'Mary Sues.' And just because something looks similar doesn't mean it's unoriginal. From your definition, people will end up making Mary Sues in an attempt to be 'unique'. A true OC is determined less by their design than their personality. Even if a character looks 'ordinary' say, Hiro from Big Hero 6, whom you bluntly called 'unoriginal', that doesn't mean he's a bad or generic character. It's an OC's character traits that determine whether they're truly an interesting character or not. Hiro doesn't have a ton of character traits, and he doesn't need to in order to be interesting or relatable. His design is quite simple, but you will still be able to recognize him because of his outfit choice, speech and behavior. It saddens me to say this, because I am completely against being rude, but that description was terribly unsatisfactory. And those 5 sentence descriptions? You really don't have even a partial grasp of what is an 'OC', judging from this video.

Um, just wondering, but did you ask the OC owners' permission to talk about their ocs in this video...? No that you didn't credit them or anything (cuz you did), but if I were the owner of one of those OCs....I wouldn't exactly be very happy with my request and oc being criticized in a public video without permission. (if you did, then that's great! Just wondering!)

I know how to make a Sonic OC: 1. Find a picture of Sonic 2. Dip it in mustard 3. Color eyes pink and put a hat on it

How about this: A black dot, 20x30 cm, that kills everything it touches? Horrayyyyyyyyyyy

my OC is supposed to represent me, and is kind of just there as a mascot of sorts to represent my work. I designed her, therefore, off of some of the things I value; I gave her the face of an owl, because many of my friends describe me as smart, and the owl is the symbol of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. I gave her antlers for a few reasons; firstly, I really enjoy being out in nature, I come from a hunting family, and nature in itself represents a mystery to me, as well as a problem to be solved. it also by extension represents curiosity, and an eagerness to try new things and to branch out every so often. I gave her the body of a wolf, for 2 reasons: 1, because I kind of cheated and started out drawing her as a wolf, which is pretty much my go-to when drawing a new character, and because a love for canines is common among my watchers, and people I watch (on deviantart, of course). secondly, because wolves are social animals, but can quickly become lone wolves at any given time if the pack decides they don't like it. I can relate to that through some years of experience in loneliness. I think this also helped me become much of who I am today, it showed me how to become a stronger person, how to avoid changing myself for others, but at the same time how to avoid being excessively resistant to change; essentially, how to accept conformity as a good thing, and that while change is absolutely terrifying, we have to accept it, because the world moves on wether or not you go with it. I could be honest and say I named her oculus because I just thought it was a cool name, or I could be dishonest about why i really named her that and give that name some meaning. in architecture, an oculus is a round hole in a dome through which light comes into the building. it can either be left open, as it usually was in Roman architecture, or it could be covered with glass, as it usually is today. oculus could easily symbolize the gap, the missing piece, the flaw; yet, it allows light to vanish the shadows, to make them retreat behind corners.

Creating original characters is not walk in the park especially when you've already seen hundreds of other fictional characters from other sources. I happen to be working on a few dozen right now and it's coming along extremely well, but I still encounter serious issues with staying an original. Here are a few things I advise you to do to make an original character(s). 1. Stay disciplined Study different forms of knowledge as much as you can so you have plenty more options to think outside of the box. If you don't do this then it can become easy to just copy from a character that you've already seen instead of seriously constructing every aspect of your character from the ground up piece by piece. This can be things like making sure you understand character personality, traits, visual styles, themes, history, intelligence, ambitions, time period, etc...you name it , you can use it, however just make sure you manage it as many ways as possible. Also, try to imagine your character in as many situations as possible, that way you can make them far more interesting and make your audience curious to see what would happen if your character was thrown in this or that. 2. Find out why you like other characters you have seen If you can properly analyze the reason as to why you enjoy other people's original characters, then it will be tremendously easier for you to take and invert the pieces you like and throw away what you don't like. This will create confidence that the reason you like someone else's character is because of very specific and personal reasons...not because you just like the someone else's entire character in general. Therefore you can use those individual reasons to make your own character, and no one will be able to completely tell that you were inspired by someone else's character. 3. Don't get bent our of shape if your character shares similar traits with other original characters It's easy to be a copy cat and just make a character that looks like someone else's, but it's also possible to go to the other deep end and get worried that your character might have something in common with another character. Don't worry, because it's not unrealistic if two or more people are similar to each other in some ways. As long as you follow steps 1 and 2 well enough, if you ever run into step 3 issues then you may just have to change 1 or 2 things about the character you are designing and then the problem can be solved. There is no such thing as having a perfectly original idea unless you are God Himself. Any picky person can eventually find ways to compare your character to someone else's if they really tried hard enough. 4. Don't make more characters than you can handle I didn't say don't make many characters, but don't over populate your cast and end up with short sighted, generic, narrow minded, or stereotypical characters. As a result, you might end up with a group of characters where some of them are extremely well developed, and others are very shallow. To accommodate for this, it may be very tempting to just make your shallow characters look like some other great existing characters that someone else made just to say that your cast of characters are well developed...and they may all be, but what's the point if half of them look just like other characters that were already made. My advice, try to focus on one character at a time, and if you want to make many characters then take your time. It may take years to build all your characters. 5. Be as personal about your characters as possible It's one thing to like a character you drew, whether or not it looks like someone else's, but it's another thing to have a personal connection with that character that only you understand fully. It's one of those things where if you cannot tell yourself every individual thing about your own character without admitting that you just wanted your own version of another character that was already made, then you might have a serious problem. The best thing to do is to make your own character represent personal emotions and situations that have happened in your life, because your own life is completely different from someone else's...especially the most personal things that have happened to you. I hope this list really helps those who are struggling with original character designs. Oh yeah, one more thing...make sure you can describe your character better than anyone else.

That Rurouni Kenshin reference made my night. And, your tips on creating OCs are great! You may, or may not have earned another subscriber.

There are Original OCs and Fan OCs. The big difference between them is that for Original OCs, you create a world for them to be in. No franchise once so ever.

Today I created an oc. He is a small pink cat with a purple belly and scruff, and bright blue eyes. His name is Shi, which means death in Japanese. He is very cutsie, although he is the textbook definition of psychopath. He also has a plan to take over the world.

_("How well do you know your character" _*_Deep inhales and stares at my 20+ OCs that all have very sad backstories and some awful problem that if people outside of my friend circle saw would probably be concerned for my mental health_*_ I think i know them pretty well lmao _*_Coughs loudly_*_)_

Just found this channel and I am in LOVE with it - New Year's binge on your channel.

Interesting. Sorry I missed the thing, sounds like it would've been fun. I suspect though that you've inadvertently biased the results by opening the offer to the first five commenters. That automatically means you're going to end up with entirely rushed entries that people haven't had time to put much thought into.

Actually the problem with why all characters looking similar is because there a only so many ways you can draw characters. If you look at people in irl you will find people are also similar like this

This is perfect! The one thing I've learnt over my time in animation is how much I didn't know about my OCs so now when ever I draw or write with them I try to get to know them as best as possible to the point of even doing research in some of the things they've gone through or some of the things they have. Honestly you ask the questions people should be asking about their OCs, and you have some really good advise =D It really made me think more

i like your hair :3 its so cute xP and your mask thingy as well! :OO

"your character fit very broad tropes and stereotypes! so unoriginal!"

Me: Yay! I have finally finished my OC's and their places and shit! Art Community: You think that's original? Hold my beer.

What if none of your oc's are human 😅

This is why instead of calling it "Original Character", I called it "Own Character", because original or not, it belongs to me since it comes from my head.

No character is COMPLETELY original. Ever. There is always another character or something else that could be compare to it and claimed it was "ripped off" of that. By the way you describe it, it seems to you that the only way to create a FULLY original character is by giving it an overly extravagant backstory, fabulously amazing physical design, and make it extremely garish in general. AKA: a Mary Sue / Gary Tsu. Not only is this video hard to follow, but it is not very helpful by any means. I did not walk away thinking "Hey, they made some good points. I think I'm gonna spruce up my character a bit." All I took from this video was "Wow. This person seems to think of themselves a superior to the peasants who are obviously untalented and have no originality even though I only gave them 5 short sentences to describe a character while they could probably write an entire book on their character and their story. But we'll just forget that because look at me, I look edgy but actually am not cause hey look how kawaii desk I am!" uhhhhhgggg -_______-

When you think about it, very few things good are 100% original. What I've seen is that if you try to do something completely original, your work might be called uninspired, boring, or weird. This doesn't happen all the time, but I've seen it many times before. Then, if you try using inspiration from something else, you may use too much and get called a rip-off. So, social media wise, creating a complete 100% OC is kinda hard for some people.

This really helped, I felt like I had been writing my characters with the same 3 tropes personalities. the Jokey one, the straight man, and the guy who is slightly unhinged. But those steps really helped me come up with some new ideas

This is the first of your videos I've watched. The Viewer Discretion Warning ALONE earned you a subscription from me.

*sees Harry at **1:20* *hits like*

I'm just going ahead and admitting that a lot of my OCs are very unoriginal. But I'm trying to improve and this video actually helped in some ways ^u^ I really don't understand why people are so judgmental. This video wasn't made to offend; it was made to help...

Ended up clicking on the link cuz I was curious... now I'm subscribed because I love videos like this that actually get me thinking about character concepts that I might not have looked into before

I like how you actually did a little experiment thing to test your theory.

To be honest, I don't know some of mine very well. I don't use them often. I made them and didn't have the heart to terminate them. But others I've made, they're different, and can be extremely cool given enough effort. But they have a long way to go. So.. thanks for helping me realize that. I'm gonna work harder on them now. Again, thank you. Have a brilliant life.

Pfft UR OCS AINT ORIGINAL GURL OKI TELL MEH WHATEVER,, MAH CHARACTERS MAY LOOK AT ACT LIKE OTHER CHARACTERS,, BUT URS ACTUALLY ACT AND LOOKS LIKE SOME OTHERS CHARACTERS IVE SEEN YA KNOW

I thought of Shishio when those two with bandages came up and was rolling when you put him in! XD

This was helpful. I was expecting this to be pure sarcasm, but this was really helpful. thanks! C:

roses are red violets are not blue i came for the FMA thumbnail and you did too

Huh? OH WAIT That character has short black hair? WHAT A RIP OFF! LOOK AT ALL THESE CHARACTERS WITH SHORT BLACK HAIR OMGG!!!111!!1 (haha, srry I was just ranting about the thing in 2:18) But seriously. my friends have black hair!!! Does that mean i'm their extended family or something?? I just find this so stupid lol.

I love your Star Wars backdrop omg

this actually gave me a new way to look at making an OC

I personally follow a method of exclusion. I never sit down and decide "I should make an OC", mostly because when I do I can't come up with anything. I study the setting, and usually, when I do, some aspects of it strike me and I come up with a character that has something to do with them. For example, I once made a VtM character who was a soviet spy, and used his backstory to expand on the "hidden" side of the Sixties in my country. I had fun making up vampiric conspiracies behind the real-world events of those years, especially because there was a TON of material to work with. I usually come up with many different ideas, and choose those that best fit the setting and the tone. IMO, the setting is simply VITAL for a character, because just as they shape the world, the world shapes them. What do you people think?

I find it interesting that the claim was being made that the OCs were the ones adhering to stereotypes due to the results the artists drew off of their descriptions. Wouldn't two of the artists choosing the same hairstyle for someone who vaguely fit into the Loli category reflect more on their stereotypes (or the fact coincidences exist) than on the originality of these OCs? Also, of course you're going to draw your own characters way better and more complex, you know them beyond what was written and clearly far more time was spent on them. The argument can definitely be made that many OCs are largely unoriginal, but this was an extremely flawed and biased test that seems largely irrelevant to that point. Also, real people look similar to one another. Its revolutionary, I know, but there are only so many variations one can make with tghe base humanoid character.

I watch this video over and over again because this video is awesome!

This is actually really helpful. I don't draw a lot, but I write, and making a good OC is very hard. I always tried covering the big over-all story first, without considering the small ones that help get to that. And sometimes I make my character more complicated than they need to be. This method here might help that a lot. Thanks for the share!