I play a lot of tomodachi life & I just have all my characters in one big world 😭 my middle school OC and the human version of my long furby got married and divorced. The lore is crazy
Me with Tomodachi Life. They were just friends but then I said "screw it, they have more chemistry!!" They even had 3 CHILDREN IN A ROW LMAO. If the freakiness™ wasn't telling me something, I don't know what was going to tell me
these are some great ideas!! thank you! as an autistic i have a really really deep connection with my ocs and like- bringing them to life (floabt) in ways like this makes me very happy and at peace. thank you! i will be using these! ^_^
I've done the hunger games once a few times for my horcees 🏇 One of them tried climbing a tree, fell and diεd I'm just staring at that prompt like... "Bro, ur a pegasus, wtf" 💀
My friend and I got an entire inside joke about one of her ocs from a round of hunger games simulator bc she, a character with actual literal lightning (as in the real element of nature that has started several wildfires) powers, failed to start a fire to keep herself warm overnight💀
i like trying to make my ocs on different dress up games :3 theres a website ive been going to since i was a kid called doll divine with a lot of dress up games
@@MerRants OH TOTALLY! Yet if you asked a simple question youd get dogpiled😭 i remember i got called racist bcus i said i didnt like mitski once, and same person was being ablest on their page lmfao! I left a few months back and im gladddd bcus that place is rampant with toxicity
ik this video is about doing stuff with ocs but there's this elaborate headcanon i made of a character and im really obsessed with them to the point i mod them or put them into every game i play if applicable i've already turned them into a rain world slugcat and a geometry dash cube, made them into a terraria character... im that fixated on them 😭
RAIJ WORL MENTIRONED WAWA p.s also bonus points for scugification... i always draw different characters as slugcats. for now ive already done pomni, mae from NITW and kris ralsei and susie from Deltarune
@@shardsc4pes generally when people are mind controlled by spups they tend to jump from the cliffs and get into other dangerous situations like a direct confrontation with a giant legless rotund bird... maybe some of them are more artistic......
the same thing happened to me when I was really obsessed with this one character. put ‘em in everything with no exceptions. sometimes I’d be making a sims 4 world for my ocs and I would casually insert this guy into it Just Because
one of my favourite thing to do with my ocs is to make them in the sims 3 and just leave them on free will for a bit. it gets chaotic sometimes and i've even gotten story ideas from seeing my ocs interracting with each other this way. also making them and picking out their traits is really fun as well!
@@bealea1127 you could make them as plumbots if you have into the future, simbots if you have ambitions or servos if you have sims 2 open for business. you could also make a human version of them as well!
I do that a lot! My 11GB mod folder exists for this reason. I like to design their houses and do character photo shoots and stuff too when I'm done making them.
Recently started an OC run with miitopia with a mix of my main OC groups, it’s been so silly and fun having them interact when they aren’t even from the same canon. My player and the second party member canonically are against each other too so it’s fun seeing them be friends
YESSSS it’s so wacky, but it’s also really funny when they somehow get scarily close to the canon. One of my OCs who’s canonically an exorcist started asking another if he “saw ghosts a lot” and it made me giggle
same, put all my pokemon ocs together with a random human, I like how she's trying to make friends by her little clumsy self with these crazy characters
I love how if i made a playlist for any character i would make it would just be some really really specific and weird selection of the music i listen to 💀😭
I use Foretelling for all my 260-ish characters. As a writer and artist in one place, it is very handy. Especially after reading their terms of service and such, most dependable place to work on. I own a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to write a lot better on that app. It is also really nice if I take long trips with nothing to do, just fleshing out my characters.
@zaytaz9331 It should be up still. Did you search in the right section of the app store? Its full name is Foretelling - Writer Tools. Shouldn't be gone, or it might not be available in your country.
i make my ocs in the sims 3/4 alongside canon characters from the show/movie/anime they are set in! i also love writing headcanons for them so i sometimes do MBTI personality quizzes to figure their traits! or i even use zodiac sign and making their birth chart too! (i love astrology and human design too! 🥹) i also do collages, clothing styles, themes and designated songs/playlists for them too. 💗
My headcanon is that Miitopia is a play my characters are staging at my Tomodachi Life island's Concert Hall I even made some songs based on it so it seems more like a musical LMAO (Though the first two were just some kind of advertisement/the actors' comments. The last one though, was based on the ending) And what's more, my story is called "Utopia Zone" so... You know... LMAO
i really recommend art jams on magma, and seeing how others draw your ocs. its honestly helped me so much by making me see how other interpret my designs , and it makes it so much clearer the mistakes in my designs that I'm blind to
I actually use Foretelling to keep track of which characters are important in which book that im writing and also for my word count. I saw it on the video and thats why i clicked, but i definitely love the rock and the hunger games ideas!
I have a very deep connection to my OCs too, I'm honestly so afraid to annoy people with my stories xD I created a bunch of them in Sims 3. ewe I also wrote a lot about their backstories, I could fill books with their dramatic pasts /D Oh! and I wrote chat-logs/interaction between them when I was really bored. Them masseging back and forth. Roplaplays are fun too. Letting your characters interct with other people's OCs.
In a story I'm nurturing like a child since years my characters have these kind of disc-shaped capsules that contain their powers and release it when made rotating. Powers represent each and every of them in their own uniqueness, as they make their best interest shine in capabilities and aesthetic, basically the most vocal version of themselves. I used those flat looking devices to further represent this unicity, by questioning myself: "if the character was a graphic style, how would it look like?" and I'd draw a bunch of examples, then make it a bit more tidy and put it on the capsule. So I really find myself in the "turn em into rocks" thing. Also I do have at least 10 YT character Playlists as we speak. And I'm absolutely planning to do more of them
Something ive done recently is make pinterest boards with things i think they'd own like clothing and plushies and room decor and stuff like that, its super fun
Miitopia is literally how I created my OCs because I was just creating random characters in it and making up the story as I go and now I have a whole fantasy/sci-fi novel in my head 😭
This might be considered cringe to some, but even to this day I really like combining my OC stuff with pre-existing media. Like, hey! What if instead of the canonical evil clones in this horror game, they were super mutated evil clones, and they only exist because my villain OC appeared one day and started the apocalypse? This only really works for those who like to make AUs, but it’s fun to plan out! And of course, then you can draw/write all your non canon interactions between the 10393947394 AU variants of the same guy 😊
I have a special interest in my ocs but I also have bad paranoia with them at the same time which makes it hard to do a lot of stuff with them but miitopia was such a fun way to add them it was legit the only reason I bought the game. 😭🙏 Im still hoping for a tomodachi life on the switch or on the next console so I can add them on there too 😞 I will legit buy the new nintendo console if they add tomodachi life just for my ocs... 🙏
As someone who’s drabbled in some of these but rarely used ocs for them, thank you for making that an option in my brain! This might be one of the most helpful characterisation videos I’ve seen ever and it’s not even focused on characterisation!!,! It doesn’t give me much pressure while simultaneously giving me something to do and I LOVE that:,))) Thank you SO much for making this:33333
Another fun thing to do is make them into a doll! It of course takes a while but in the end, its a really nice thing to have, and is super fun to make!
i like to record quotes from like memes or posts or just things i watch/read and write them as my characters. so like incorrect quotes, i have a whole section on my notes app for these and there are like 400 notes its bad but its so fun
Oh I do that sometimes!!! I sometimes watch something and then go like "oh shit that is SOMETHING that [insert any of my ocs] would definitely do/say!!!" Especially on funni memes/vines or whatever 😭
I SEE MIITOPIA IN THUMBNAIL, I CLICK, I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED!!!!!! I conveniently have a VERY big autistic hyperfixation on Miitopia and literally would not be where I am with my OCs without it, I am so very normal about the game...... My OCs all basically started off as characters I made on my Switch playthrough but over time they now have the whole sci-fi world and story I'm slowly building up for them (because I am a HUGE sci-fi nerd) and it's genuinely amazing to see how far I've come with my silly Miis, I would not be where I am without it, and it's genuinely my favorite video game of all time! (no joke, I literally was about to quit OC creation forever until the switch remake came out due to burnout and cringing at old self-insert stuff...) (fun fact: my YT pfp is actually my main OC/story protagonist!! In case you guys are wondering, they are a stubborn scientist and also has the main hero role in Miitopia!) As my favorite streamer once said: "The best thing about Miitopia is that you get to make your own story." and those words couldn't be any truer. (Failboat's Miitopia Let's Plays my beloved, I highly recommend them if you haven't seen it and they are genuinely so good, they are a prime example of using Miitopia for making OCs and making and improving lore with all the randomized events and dynamics they form as a result.. aaaa i love Miitopia!!!)
My Miitopia fanfiction has done a lot for me, too! My time in the community has had ups and downs, but ultimately, for better or for worse, I wouldn't be the same without Lost Star, and it means the absolute world to me.
One type of craft I love is if you have a medium where you can create pixel sprites of your OC (like making your character in Stardew Valley, for example, or any video game/dollmaker that has a pixel style), you can translate the pixels into perler beads! Get the colors you need, iron, and you basically have a figure/wall art of your OC. Since I do have a little bit of experience, I have some Pokemon and Danganronpa-inspired pixel art that I've turned into perlers! It's also worth mentioning that if you have LOADS of extra time, you can customize events in the Hunger Games simulator, too, to add ways for characters to interact/fight. My favorite gag is to make a character die from a beesting or stepping on a rake.
this video came to me at the perfect time, I'm sitting here, wanting to start working on my worldbuilding project. I didn't know where to begin, so I procrastinated and opened youtube n this was the first video I saw. Thank you sooooo much for mentioning Fortelling, I feel like I've just been handed a map that leads directly to treasure.
Something I also did that doesn’t involve drawing is finding incorrect quotes to make your ocs say But another idea I’ll share is giving them a written signature! You can establish a lot about your oc’s personality by the way they write a signature! Do they go all out or barely try? Do they add things like a heart or star? Do their letters look sharp or smooth and bubbly? Do they only do initials or do they write their full name?
thanksss this is super helpful as someone who doesnt rly like to draw but loves making ocs !!! some other things u could add in regard to games/media are picrew, sims, gacha, tomodachi life, minecraft/roblox skins etc :3
ive struggled for a couple years connecting to my ocs - theyve stayed with me for so long but ive had an up and down relationship with my understanding of them as characters, so this was a really helpful list of ideas to connect and produce more interactions with them haha esp with art block
When I want some more OC content but dont feel like drawing I also use CapCut where you can insert existing pictures into a video template so you can make an edit of them! Very fun Also toyhouse offers a lot when it comes to organizing ocs I love to use that and you can also use it to make worlds and links with your friends ocs too! Not to mention with their forums you can find lots of artists to either commission, art trade, or even find artists open for requests!
I made playlists for my oc's it really made their personalities and their differences show alot more and it's honestly such a great way to find new music for yourself and figure out personalities of your oc's!
i’ve been using neocities to make wikipedia pages of my ocs!! you have to know a little html but it’s not hard at all and makes for a really good place to store oc info and brainstorm (i got to the point where im making episode titles and summaries and voice actors i would want to play them, treating it like a real fandom is SO much fun for me)
thank you!!!! two other things i'd say are catalog avatar creator and misfits high on roblox, both have free private servers where you can just goof around making your ocs! your sona is so adorable btw
Oh this video is super cool! On a side note, I know exactly who that character is in the figure you repainted, lol. Love her dearly but the repaint was super cool too!
i use twinote because i normally think in twitter posts (but i don’t have twitter) and i wanted to write my notes that way, so i found that, and it did not take me long to make 15 profiles for all of my sonas
Thank you sm for this video, I've been wanting to find motivation to work on my ocs without drawing them a whole bunch (and I need something that isn't toyhouse fr-) and this was a lot of help!
Also if you want to have figures of your OCs, there is also Hero Forge, it’s meant for making minis for TTRPGs but it’s highly customizable. Also if you don’t want to spend money on that you can also just use the character creator and save the 3d model.
Miitopia is literally one of my favorite games. Its so silly. I started out just making myself and already existing characters but over time i put my ocs into miitopia.
i tried tomodachi life before this, but my island is a huge mix of characters, people, and ocs 😭i wanted to make my ocs meet so bad. i tried EVERYTHING, putting their apartments next to eachother, giving them the same personality, gifts, etc. its been months and theyre not even friends.
NO LITERALLY sometimes the pairings the system does is mind boggling I just have to stand there like 🧍🏽 The nice thing about miitopia is *you* control the relationship levels and they all grow with time!! Fav activity in miitopia is for sure letting oc pairings go out on little outings together :3
YOU ARE GODLYY OMG IVE BEEN STRUGGLING RECENTLY WITH MY CREATIVITY CUZ I GOT BORED OF DRAWING BUT WANTED TO DO SHIT WITH MY BLORBOS STILL AAA SO USEFUL
I use Pluot and Storyplotter (both are free apps) and they're great for planning stories but also character worlds! Pluot is better imo for characterization specifically and Storyplotter is better imo for the rest of that kinda stuff!
Thank you! I really love my characters but unfortunately, due to my own poor choices, art has become something I find heavy and burdenful ( though it’s slowly been getting fixed up with wiser decision’s ) and I really really want to indulge more into my characters. Even if I didn’t burn myself out, art still takes a long time to do and theres too many ideas and not enough time in my short lifespan so this is just so so helpful and awesome. ( Also I really like your character banner thing, it’s so cool and I don’t see too much of things like it. )
The Miitopia one i've definitely done, i made my main character Mitsumi a playable character because i thought it would be more refreshing for other fictional characters to interact with her instead of myself. Then i added Tulsi when i made it to post game. And the reason why i had only 2 OCs in the team is because the other 2 OCs were yet to be finalized.
Making miis out of your ocs are literally the best, I need to buy miitopia for switch just for this, try making ocs in smash, or just a smash bros character concept for them, it’s really fun
Also, there’s some custom keyboard apps out there that will let you make your own custom letters if your OCs have their own language! You can type as them that way! (This probably only works if you know the keyboard layout or have a reference at hand though lol)
So my favored OCs are actually _from_ Miitopia! I think Miitopia OCs should be more common; the game's quite fun to write lore for (when you find a way past the shameless anachronism stew, anyway...) And let me tell you, when I learned about Enhanced Phone Customization last night, I had a blast! I don't know how I'd ever go back to a normal phone screen!
I did a miitopia run with my OCs and it was literally the most fun ive had with them in ages,, so much so infact it developed into its own AU because i liked how their dynamics (n lowkey outfits) turned out in the playthrough :>
I'm writing a book with all my OCs, and I know what's going to happen in the canon, but.... Some things don't fit in the canon of my book, but are definitely there if you squint... I write fanfics of my book OCs.
Just throwing my two cents into this, but if you like rogue-like tactical fantasy RPGs, I'd suggest trying out the game Wildermyth and making your OCs in them, or even just your favourite characters in general. While the appearance customization is pretty limited, I find that the stats and personality values can be quite specific, making distinct personalities for my characters that are so surprisingly them, it's wonderful. The prose is also really well-written, and overall it's just a very fun game for me.
TWINOTE MENTIONED!! one of my favorite apps of all time, one time i ended up making a whole story there on accident there (also its a life saver when i dont have any internet and all the apps and games i have on my phone are online)
I dont know if it counts but i just found out recently that there are people you can commission to make plushies of your ocs. Im currently trying to save some money up to buy a plush. It does kinda require drawing cause you need to draw out the plushie design, but i just wanted to point that out :~)
Me and my friend put our Oc’s in the hunger ganes simulator. Once I got „Lucio js losing his sanity“ and since he’s usually a really confident, happy and nice guy we went down a whole rabbit hole about how and why he’d go insane. It was a bit cringe but really fun making this insane Lucio Au 😂
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two of my ocs actually fell in love bc of miitopia!! I noticed they were super close with eachother and now they’re canon lmao 😭
YEAA NO SAME ME TOO!!!!!!!!!
I play a lot of tomodachi life & I just have all my characters in one big world 😭 my middle school OC and the human version of my long furby got married and divorced. The lore is crazy
Me with Tomodachi Life. They were just friends but then I said "screw it, they have more chemistry!!"
They even had 3 CHILDREN IN A ROW LMAO. If the freakiness™ wasn't telling me something, I don't know what was going to tell me
That’s so cute
it was similar with me! it started with a friend group and then I went huh... or something like that lol
I genuinely see 'draw draw draw' when it comes to these OC prompts...this saved my life frfr 😔✨
I SAW MIITOPIA IN THE CORNER AND IMMEADIATELY CLICKRD
I USED TO PUT MY OCS IN MIITOPIA-
@@SillyGooberEnergy YEA I JUST STARTED PLAYING IT AGAIN
REALL I SHOULD FINNISH MY MIITOPIA RUN WITH MY OCS LMAO
SAME BRO
i saw twinote and clicked so fast
Another thing you could do is create a collage on Pinterest if your not as good at physical collages such as myself :3
I had that as a thing to talk about in this video!! Unfortunately while recording it completely slipped the mind 😞
PINTEREST COLLAGES ARE SO PEAK
Just did the hunger games simulator now I got something to entertain me and put my ocs in drastic situations as they fight to the death!
@@9-ball_films is it really an oc if you don’t put them through constant turmoil 💔💔/nsrs
@@MerRantscough cough trauma x100
@@MerRants I have LOTS of OC'S that have no backstory because I mostly make silly things with them
these are some great ideas!! thank you!
as an autistic i have a really really deep connection with my ocs and like- bringing them to life (floabt) in ways like this makes me very happy and at peace. thank you! i will be using these! ^_^
SAME i have two ocs im obsessed with and i . need to throw them at MULTIPLE things to make me happy
I like your Unpleasant and Infected pfp
woahh me too
I've done the hunger games once a few times for my horcees 🏇
One of them tried climbing a tree, fell and diεd
I'm just staring at that prompt like... "Bro, ur a pegasus, wtf" 💀
REAL BC I'LL PUT ONE OF MY GOD CHARACTERS INTO IT AND THEYLL DIE AND ILL BE LIKE "*DUDE*"
NO BECAUSE SOME OF THEM DIE IN THE DUMBEST WAYS IMAGINABLE ITS SO FUNNY
I want to do that but all my ocs are DOGS
My friend and I got an entire inside joke about one of her ocs from a round of hunger games simulator bc she, a character with actual literal lightning (as in the real element of nature that has started several wildfires) powers, failed to start a fire to keep herself warm overnight💀
STOP WHAT A PEGASUS CLIMBING A TREE?
i like trying to make my ocs on different dress up games :3 theres a website ive been going to since i was a kid called doll divine with a lot of dress up games
@@Xaztix (as much as I dislike the platform sometimes) Everskies also has some really cool dress-up options!! Dress up games are super super fun :3
@@MerRants everskies seems cool :o not sure if its really my thing tho, im already on a bunch of social games but im scared of people 😭
@@MerRantsdressing up on everskies is so fun but my god the people are obnoxious😭
@@stitchgor3 that or horrendously insensitive 😞 being a compchat regular back in the day was frustrating
@@MerRants OH TOTALLY! Yet if you asked a simple question youd get dogpiled😭 i remember i got called racist bcus i said i didnt like mitski once, and same person was being ablest on their page lmfao! I left a few months back and im gladddd bcus that place is rampant with toxicity
ik this video is about doing stuff with ocs but there's this elaborate headcanon i made of a character and im really obsessed with them to the point i mod them or put them into every game i play if applicable
i've already turned them into a rain world slugcat and a geometry dash cube, made them into a terraria character... im that fixated on them 😭
RAIJ WORL MENTIRONED
WAWA
p.s also bonus points for scugification... i always draw different characters as slugcats. for now ive already done pomni, mae from NITW and kris ralsei and susie from Deltarune
(i am being mind controlled by slugpups send help)
ougggghhh i wanna draw scugs now
@@shardsc4pes generally when people are mind controlled by spups they tend to jump from the cliffs and get into other dangerous situations like a direct confrontation with a giant legless rotund bird... maybe some of them are more artistic......
the same thing happened to me when I was really obsessed with this one character. put ‘em in everything with no exceptions. sometimes I’d be making a sims 4 world for my ocs and I would casually insert this guy into it Just Because
one of my favourite thing to do with my ocs is to make them in the sims 3 and just leave them on free will for a bit. it gets chaotic sometimes and i've even gotten story ideas from seeing my ocs interracting with each other this way. also making them and picking out their traits is really fun as well!
I do that but in Tomodachi life!
My ocs a robot what should I do then
@@bealea1127 you could make them as plumbots if you have into the future, simbots if you have ambitions or servos if you have sims 2 open for business. you could also make a human version of them as well!
@@Gleamiarts Oh thx!
I do that a lot! My 11GB mod folder exists for this reason. I like to design their houses and do character photo shoots and stuff too when I'm done making them.
Recently started an OC run with miitopia with a mix of my main OC groups, it’s been so silly and fun having them interact when they aren’t even from the same canon. My player and the second party member canonically are against each other too so it’s fun seeing them be friends
SEEING THEM DEVIATE FROM CANON IS SOOO FUNNY like 😭😭😭
YESSSS it’s so wacky, but it’s also really funny when they somehow get scarily close to the canon. One of my OCs who’s canonically an exorcist started asking another if he “saw ghosts a lot” and it made me giggle
same, put all my pokemon ocs together with a random human, I like how she's trying to make friends by her little clumsy self with these crazy characters
I love how if i made a playlist for any character i would make it would just be some really really specific and weird selection of the music i listen to 💀😭
You just single handedly sparked my passion for my OCs again thank you dearly I will be doing multiple of these.
HUZZAH!! That’s what this video’s here for :3
I use Foretelling for all my 260-ish characters. As a writer and artist in one place, it is very handy. Especially after reading their terms of service and such, most dependable place to work on.
I own a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to write a lot better on that app. It is also really nice if I take long trips with nothing to do, just fleshing out my characters.
FORETELLING FOREVERRRR RAHHH
Is it available on Android?? Cuz it looked VERY appealing to me but when I searched on Google play I found nothing
@zaytaz9331 It should be up still. Did you search in the right section of the app store? Its full name is Foretelling - Writer Tools. Shouldn't be gone, or it might not be available in your country.
@@zaytaz9331it is you just have to search up the full name of the app cuz it wont show up otherwise . its foretelling - writers tools
@@zaytaz9331 foretelling is available on the play store, I think? At least it’s showing up when I search it 😭
i make my ocs in the sims 3/4 alongside canon characters from the show/movie/anime they are set in!
i also love writing headcanons for them so i sometimes do MBTI personality quizzes to figure their traits! or i even use zodiac sign and making their birth chart too! (i love astrology and human design too! 🥹)
i also do collages, clothing styles, themes and designated songs/playlists for them too. 💗
OC communties can get pretty stale sometimes, but that oc is realllly unique!
id also reccomend campfire writing! its similar to foretelling and lets you do a TON for worldbuilding :3
Miitopia and tomodachi are good for ocs, i also really like the sims4 too :)
Lolol I had to download a bazillion cc to recreate my ocs XD
i really wish they'd make a tomodachi life port for the switch with the miitopia makeup, that'd be so awesome.
@@jasperjazzie fr, I really hope they consider making it a switch port since miitopia came from tomodachi life
Me who draws my ocs once a year and their whole lore is in my head : yep, this video is for me :>
My headcanon is that Miitopia is a play my characters are staging at my Tomodachi Life island's Concert Hall
I even made some songs based on it so it seems more like a musical LMAO (Though the first two were just some kind of advertisement/the actors' comments. The last one though, was based on the ending)
And what's more, my story is called "Utopia Zone" so... You know... LMAO
YOOO THIS HC COOKS 🔥🔥🔥
@@MerRants
THANK YOUUUUU
i really recommend art jams on magma, and seeing how others draw your ocs. its honestly helped me so much by making me see how other interpret my designs , and it makes it so much clearer the mistakes in my designs that I'm blind to
fortelling is *sooo* good. if the website version were free I'd go insane
I actually use Foretelling to keep track of which characters are important in which book that im writing and also for my word count. I saw it on the video and thats why i clicked, but i definitely love the rock and the hunger games ideas!
I have a very deep connection to my OCs too, I'm honestly so afraid to annoy people with my stories xD
I created a bunch of them in Sims 3. ewe
I also wrote a lot about their backstories, I could fill books with their dramatic pasts /D
Oh! and I wrote chat-logs/interaction between them when I was really bored. Them masseging back and forth.
Roplaplays are fun too. Letting your characters interct with other people's OCs.
Roleplaying helped so much with developing my ocs :D
@@Luumoth
This!!! Roleplays are good too on situations were you want to test characterization
I mean, how they'd act overall
just started the video , but i wanted to say i love your lil persona goober, very unique
TYY 😸😸😸
It's so cute 💙
Hey all! What an amazing video! I'm so glad Fortelling got featured! Feel free to ask me anything :)
In a story I'm nurturing like a child since years my characters have these kind of disc-shaped capsules that contain their powers and release it when made rotating. Powers represent each and every of them in their own uniqueness, as they make their best interest shine in capabilities and aesthetic, basically the most vocal version of themselves. I used those flat looking devices to further represent this unicity, by questioning myself: "if the character was a graphic style, how would it look like?" and I'd draw a bunch of examples, then make it a bit more tidy and put it on the capsule. So I really find myself in the "turn em into rocks" thing.
Also I do have at least 10 YT character Playlists as we speak. And I'm absolutely planning to do more of them
Something ive done recently is make pinterest boards with things i think they'd own like clothing and plushies and room decor and stuff like that, its super fun
Miitopia is literally how I created my OCs because I was just creating random characters in it and making up the story as I go and now I have a whole fantasy/sci-fi novel in my head 😭
This might be considered cringe to some, but even to this day I really like combining my OC stuff with pre-existing media. Like, hey! What if instead of the canonical evil clones in this horror game, they were super mutated evil clones, and they only exist because my villain OC appeared one day and started the apocalypse? This only really works for those who like to make AUs, but it’s fun to plan out! And of course, then you can draw/write all your non canon interactions between the 10393947394 AU variants of the same guy 😊
I have a special interest in my ocs but I also have bad paranoia with them at the same time which makes it hard to do a lot of stuff with them but miitopia was such a fun way to add them it was legit the only reason I bought the game. 😭🙏
Im still hoping for a tomodachi life on the switch or on the next console so I can add them on there too 😞 I will legit buy the new nintendo console if they add tomodachi life just for my ocs... 🙏
TOMODACHI LIFE PLEAAASE COME BACK PLEAAASE 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@@MerRants PLEASEEE IM BEGGING 😭🙏
YESS PLEASE WE NEED TOMODACHI LIFE BACK 🙏🙏🙏
As someone who’s drabbled in some of these but rarely used ocs for them, thank you for making that an option in my brain! This might be one of the most helpful characterisation videos I’ve seen ever and it’s not even focused on characterisation!!,! It doesn’t give me much pressure while simultaneously giving me something to do and I LOVE that:,))) Thank you SO much for making this:33333
@@flasche. OFC RAHHHH 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 gotta spread the oc agenda /j
Another fun thing to do is make them into a doll! It of course takes a while but in the end, its a really nice thing to have, and is super fun to make!
In the BrantSteele Hunger Games, you can even add custom events! All sorts of them, day and night, special, neutral and fatal!
i like to record quotes from like memes or posts or just things i watch/read and write them as my characters. so like incorrect quotes, i have a whole section on my notes app for these and there are like 400 notes its bad but its so fun
Oh I do that sometimes!!! I sometimes watch something and then go like "oh shit that is SOMETHING that [insert any of my ocs] would definitely do/say!!!"
Especially on funni memes/vines or whatever 😭
I SEE MIITOPIA IN THUMBNAIL, I CLICK, I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED!!!!!!
I conveniently have a VERY big autistic hyperfixation on Miitopia and literally would not be where I am with my OCs without it, I am so very normal about the game......
My OCs all basically started off as characters I made on my Switch playthrough but over time they now have the whole sci-fi world and story I'm slowly building up for them (because I am a HUGE sci-fi nerd) and it's genuinely amazing to see how far I've come with my silly Miis, I would not be where I am without it, and it's genuinely my favorite video game of all time! (no joke, I literally was about to quit OC creation forever until the switch remake came out due to burnout and cringing at old self-insert stuff...)
(fun fact: my YT pfp is actually my main OC/story protagonist!! In case you guys are wondering, they are a stubborn scientist and also has the main hero role in Miitopia!)
As my favorite streamer once said: "The best thing about Miitopia is that you get to make your own story." and those words couldn't be any truer. (Failboat's Miitopia Let's Plays my beloved, I highly recommend them if you haven't seen it and they are genuinely so good, they are a prime example of using Miitopia for making OCs and making and improving lore with all the randomized events and dynamics they form as a result.. aaaa i love Miitopia!!!)
MIITOPIA FOREVERRRRRR🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@MerRants 🤝🤝 I LOVE MIITOPIA !!!
My Miitopia fanfiction has done a lot for me, too! My time in the community has had ups and downs, but ultimately, for better or for worse, I wouldn't be the same without Lost Star, and it means the absolute world to me.
the character playlist thing is so fun and lowkey inspiring for lore reasons (i hear a random song and think "how do i make this about them")
I keep coming back to this video 😭
heaven knows I have no hobbies outside of my OCs
But it also knows my drawing skills only work 3.5% of the time
One type of craft I love is if you have a medium where you can create pixel sprites of your OC (like making your character in Stardew Valley, for example, or any video game/dollmaker that has a pixel style), you can translate the pixels into perler beads! Get the colors you need, iron, and you basically have a figure/wall art of your OC. Since I do have a little bit of experience, I have some Pokemon and Danganronpa-inspired pixel art that I've turned into perlers!
It's also worth mentioning that if you have LOADS of extra time, you can customize events in the Hunger Games simulator, too, to add ways for characters to interact/fight. My favorite gag is to make a character die from a beesting or stepping on a rake.
Another fun thing is making Pinterest boards for them which can also help with drawing =)
True!!!! I loveeee making those
Unvale is also fantastic for OCs btw.
I haven’t heard of this one!! Will have to check out :3
character hub is also cool !!
this video came to me at the perfect time, I'm sitting here, wanting to start working on my worldbuilding project. I didn't know where to begin, so I procrastinated and opened youtube n this was the first video I saw. Thank you sooooo much for mentioning Fortelling, I feel like I've just been handed a map that leads directly to treasure.
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I love love love Miitopia sooo much games where you can put any character in are so kewl
Something I also did that doesn’t involve drawing is finding incorrect quotes to make your ocs say
But another idea I’ll share is giving them a written signature! You can establish a lot about your oc’s personality by the way they write a signature! Do they go all out or barely try? Do they add things like a heart or star? Do their letters look sharp or smooth and bubbly? Do they only do initials or do they write their full name?
HOLY COW, FORETELLING IS GONNA SAVE MY BRAIN ORGANIZATION TROUBLES. THANK YOU
"I. do not stop blabbering" YOURE SO REAL FOR THAT JF,GKJLGFDSGL
thanksss this is super helpful as someone who doesnt rly like to draw but loves making ocs !!! some other things u could add in regard to games/media are picrew, sims, gacha, tomodachi life, minecraft/roblox skins etc :3
ive struggled for a couple years connecting to my ocs - theyve stayed with me for so long but ive had an up and down relationship with my understanding of them as characters, so this was a really helpful list of ideas to connect and produce more interactions with them haha esp with art block
If you have the sims. Create a sim for your oc. That’s what I always do haha.
@@pink3t224 REAL!!
When I want some more OC content but dont feel like drawing I also use CapCut where you can insert existing pictures into a video template so you can make an edit of them! Very fun
Also toyhouse offers a lot when it comes to organizing ocs I love to use that and you can also use it to make worlds and links with your friends ocs too! Not to mention with their forums you can find lots of artists to either commission, art trade, or even find artists open for requests!
I also got one: character prompt generators. Whether its incorrect quotes, otp prompts, theres a bunch of those on the internet. Really fun, too.
something i do is i make my ocs houses or bedrooms in TS4
I made playlists for my oc's it really made their personalities and their differences show alot more and it's honestly such a great way to find new music for yourself and figure out personalities of your oc's!
your oc’s are so beautiful and i luv your artstyle!!!also thanks for the ideas i always get bored with just drawing my ocs!!💓💕
I put my OCs in Miitopia, and I swear the game just KNOWS how they'd act. It's extremely fun!!
i’ve been using neocities to make wikipedia pages of my ocs!! you have to know a little html but it’s not hard at all and makes for a really good place to store oc info and brainstorm (i got to the point where im making episode titles and summaries and voice actors i would want to play them, treating it like a real fandom is SO much fun for me)
thank you!!!! two other things i'd say are catalog avatar creator and misfits high on roblox, both have free private servers where you can just goof around making your ocs! your sona is so adorable btw
"Turn them into rocks" THEY'RE ALREADY ROCKS/GEMSTONES /hj 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Double rock-ify them 🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽‼️‼️‼️
omg 🥺 twinote looks so fun my ocs _would_ yell at each other on twitter!!
LITERALLY!!! I know the discourse would be craaazy 🔥🔥🔥
I'm so glad i got this video during art block 🙏
Oh this video is super cool! On a side note, I know exactly who that character is in the figure you repainted, lol. Love her dearly but the repaint was super cool too!
i use twinote because i normally think in twitter posts (but i don’t have twitter) and i wanted to write my notes that way, so i found that, and it did not take me long to make 15 profiles for all of my sonas
I genuinely love ur art sm why is it like candy for the eyes 💓💓💓😭
My ocs a robot with a sticky note on its face. The sticky note has a picture of a cod on it. I love cod.
Thank you sm for this video, I've been wanting to find motivation to work on my ocs without drawing them a whole bunch (and I need something that isn't toyhouse fr-) and this was a lot of help!
Also if you want to have figures of your OCs, there is also Hero Forge, it’s meant for making minis for TTRPGs but it’s highly customizable. Also if you don’t want to spend money on that you can also just use the character creator and save the 3d model.
DUKE OF DEATH AND HIS MAID REFERENCE!?!?!?! (the figure)
AAAAAHHH I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE FORTELLING!!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
If you have any questions regarding the app or how to make it better, please shoot us an email, always happy to help ;)
I literally make a playlist for every single character I get. It’s so fun and I consider myself an expert on it.
1:59 I CREATED MY FIRST OC IN MIITOPIA 🗣️
Miitopia is literally one of my favorite games. Its so silly. I started out just making myself and already existing characters but over time i put my ocs into miitopia.
i tried tomodachi life before this, but my island is a huge mix of characters, people, and ocs 😭i wanted to make my ocs meet so bad. i tried EVERYTHING, putting their apartments next to eachother, giving them the same personality, gifts, etc. its been months and theyre not even friends.
NO LITERALLY sometimes the pairings the system does is mind boggling I just have to stand there like 🧍🏽
The nice thing about miitopia is *you* control the relationship levels and they all grow with time!! Fav activity in miitopia is for sure letting oc pairings go out on little outings together :3
SAME 😭
YOU ARE GODLYY OMG IVE BEEN STRUGGLING RECENTLY WITH MY CREATIVITY CUZ I GOT BORED OF DRAWING BUT WANTED TO DO SHIT WITH MY BLORBOS STILL AAA SO USEFUL
I use Pluot and Storyplotter (both are free apps) and they're great for planning stories but also character worlds! Pluot is better imo for characterization specifically and Storyplotter is better imo for the rest of that kinda stuff!
omg...this vid is a godsend for someone like me where drawing drains so much of my energy
Thank you! I really love my characters but unfortunately, due to my own poor choices, art has become something I find heavy and burdenful ( though it’s slowly been getting fixed up with wiser decision’s ) and I really really want to indulge more into my characters. Even if I didn’t burn myself out, art still takes a long time to do and theres too many ideas and not enough time in my short lifespan so this is just so so helpful and awesome.
( Also I really like your character banner thing, it’s so cool and I don’t see too much of things like it. )
THANK YOU SO FRICKEN MUCHHHHHHHH, also ur alien character is so freaking cute jtnejwskngjkhgjk
I love the vibe of this video! The background and the music is really cool :D
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Miitopia is awesome. My two main OCs, Stanley and Monty have a maxed out relationship and I love them. :3
i absolutely love twinote its so fun
The Miitopia one i've definitely done, i made my main character Mitsumi a playable character because i thought it would be more refreshing for other fictional characters to interact with her instead of myself.
Then i added Tulsi when i made it to post game. And the reason why i had only 2 OCs in the team is because the other 2 OCs were yet to be finalized.
Making miis out of your ocs are literally the best, I need to buy miitopia for switch just for this, try making ocs in smash, or just a smash bros character concept for them, it’s really fun
For my oc playlists, I add songs that fit their lore the best (Although I also like the idea of making playlists that your ocs would listen to)
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I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS FOR SO LONG 😭 THANK YOU SO MUCHHHH
Also, there’s some custom keyboard apps out there that will let you make your own custom letters if your OCs have their own language! You can type as them that way! (This probably only works if you know the keyboard layout or have a reference at hand though lol)
So my favored OCs are actually _from_ Miitopia! I think Miitopia OCs should be more common; the game's quite fun to write lore for (when you find a way past the shameless anachronism stew, anyway...) And let me tell you, when I learned about Enhanced Phone Customization last night, I had a blast! I don't know how I'd ever go back to a normal phone screen!
I did a miitopia run with my OCs and it was literally the most fun ive had with them in ages,, so much so infact it developed into its own AU because i liked how their dynamics (n lowkey outfits) turned out in the playthrough :>
Unironically thank you SO MUCH for this video!!! Hyperfixated on my own oc rn and I need a break from constantly shittily doodling him lol
I'm writing a book with all my OCs, and I know what's going to happen in the canon, but.... Some things don't fit in the canon of my book, but are definitely there if you squint...
I write fanfics of my book OCs.
Just throwing my two cents into this, but if you like rogue-like tactical fantasy RPGs, I'd suggest trying out the game Wildermyth and making your OCs in them, or even just your favourite characters in general. While the appearance customization is pretty limited, I find that the stats and personality values can be quite specific, making distinct personalities for my characters that are so surprisingly them, it's wonderful. The prose is also really well-written, and overall it's just a very fun game for me.
I’m in artblock rn and this is so helpful tysm
OFCCC RAHHHH‼️‼️‼️
I didn't watch the vid entirely but i just wanted to say that YOUR STYLE IS SO CUTE AND YUMMY HELP
The anime figure is from "The Duke of Death and His Maid" and the character is called Alice
The miitopia idea is genius THANK YOU SO MUCH
OMG i didn’t know you had a UA-cam it’s so good seeing you here 🎉❤
TWINOTE MENTIONED!! one of my favorite apps of all time, one time i ended up making a whole story there on accident there (also its a life saver when i dont have any internet and all the apps and games i have on my phone are online)
I dont know if it counts but i just found out recently that there are people you can commission to make plushies of your ocs. Im currently trying to save some money up to buy a plush. It does kinda require drawing cause you need to draw out the plushie design, but i just wanted to point that out :~)
Yeah drawing does get a little tiresome sometimes, this video really helped me out a ton.
Me and my friend put our Oc’s in the hunger ganes simulator. Once I got „Lucio js losing his sanity“ and since he’s usually a really confident, happy and nice guy we went down a whole rabbit hole about how and why he’d go insane. It was a bit cringe but really fun making this insane Lucio Au 😂