Yeah, but you just don't realize it when you're that young, you know? I had a character named Alexa Hale, who was basically a recolor of Amy, but with a completely different personality. Yep, that's the prime definition of a lame recolor fan character. At least she wasn't more powerful than Sonic XD (Or anywhere NEAR as powerful, for that matter...)
Now that's not to say I didn't create my own Sonic character legitimately :) I did that too and drew a picture of her myself. But yeah, there was a lot of license taken... only because child fans of series want to make their own characters in a given universe so they can experience it too (not to say adults don't also create their own fan characters, because they do XD)
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I think everyone has gone through a ' Re-color ' phase,
I'm not proud to admit this, but I used to do a lot of recolors,
which, is basically art stealing as well, so that's double the bad!
Worse thing is, I didn't even know that what I was doing was wrong at the time, so I was very confused when a lot of people got mad at me.
Lombax of Earth (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/29/13 | Reply
Agh, old stories and fanfiction. I've definitely got some of that lying around... >_> Definitely not my best work either XD I've got a number of lame recolors and overwrought out-of-character romance in my 32-page long Sonic fanfic XD
Bahahahahaa! Glad I'm not the only one this happens to! XD I usually try to make the decision to laugh my head off at my old stories rather than being depressed about it ;) Doesn't always work, but I try.
But I think it's kinda good as well. At least we both know that they're terrible. Back then we didn't even know, which is even scarier to me ~.~
CelestialSushi
Lombax of Earth (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/30/13 | Reply
@TrueStory:
Yeah, but you just don't realize it when you're that young, you know? I had a character named Alexa Hale, who was basically a recolor of Amy, but with a completely different personality. Yep, that's the prime definition of a lame recolor fan character. At least she wasn't more powerful than Sonic XD (Or anywhere NEAR as powerful, for that matter...)
Now that's not to say I didn't create my own Sonic character legitimately :) I did that too and drew a picture of her myself. But yeah, there was a lot of license taken... only because child fans of series want to make their own characters in a given universe so they can experience it too (not to say adults don't also create their own fan characters, because they do XD)
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TrueStory
Otaku Legend | Posted 05/30/13 | Reply
@CelestialSushi:
I think everyone has gone through a ' Re-color ' phase,
I'm not proud to admit this, but I used to do a lot of recolors,
which, is basically art stealing as well, so that's double the bad!
Worse thing is, I didn't even know that what I was doing was wrong at the time, so I was very confused when a lot of people got mad at me.
*Facepalm*
CelestialSushi
Lombax of Earth (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 05/29/13 | Reply
Agh, old stories and fanfiction. I've definitely got some of that lying around... >_> Definitely not my best work either XD I've got a number of lame recolors and overwrought out-of-character romance in my 32-page long Sonic fanfic XD
silvershriek
Otaku Legend | Posted 05/29/13 | Reply
Bahahahahaa! Glad I'm not the only one this happens to! XD I usually try to make the decision to laugh my head off at my old stories rather than being depressed about it ;) Doesn't always work, but I try.
But I think it's kinda good as well. At least we both know that they're terrible. Back then we didn't even know, which is even scarier to me ~.~