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glitchgoat In reply to Pokexm [2019-08-29 03:22:14 +0000 UTC]

These characters don't belong to me, so I can't answer that question.

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glitchgoat In reply to DreamingDrag0n [2018-09-06 02:25:41 +0000 UTC]

this is kind of a big question so sorry abt the tl;dr lol

usually with a digimon designs i have one basic core idea (usually just an animal or type of animal and a theme, whether that be an element, a "character class" like in d&d/world of warcraft, or a concept from mythology) in mind that i build on

-i generally keep the champion pretty simple as a larger and more complex version of the basic rookie form idea, so a small bat will turn into a big but relatively simple bat-dragon, a dog will turn into a wolf, a plague doctor crow will turn into a humanoid plague doctor, a little tiger will turn into a big tiger, etc
-for the ultimate i generally try to express the digimon's personality -- or if applicable, their human partner's personality -- a lot and go a little wilder. if they have a super strong theme i wanted to incorporate, i usually bring it in here lol. the key is to bridge the power levels of the champion and the mega, so they're often sort of "in between". because it's really easy to slip into "every form is just a bigger version of the last" i have a habit of making the ultimates either the biggest or smallest of the evolved forms lol but that's not universal even within my designs
-and then the mega is the platonic ideal of the original idea. i try not to design the mega first but i generally plan my digimon rookie -> mega -> [champion/ultimate] so i know what point A -> Point B has to be

and for actual conceptualizing honestly i just go with whatever interests me lol, almost all of my digimon for myself are hugely self-indulgent

i draw on mythology and public domain stories a lot, and occasionally i tweak ideas and aesthetics from other large media that i like (world of warcraft is a big one when im stuck lol), tho i never scarper ideas from other small time artists, that's just tacky

i also use other artists as a springing-off point in that when someone else has done something i use that as a "what not to do" guide; for example, one of my favorite fan-digimon started because i wanted to make a fox (because i really love kitsune), and a bunch of other fox digimon were either renamon-like or quadrupeds, so i made a small, bipedal fox with a noh mask face entirely based on the premise "because i just think noh masks are cool"

an embarrassing amount of digimon design is "i think it's a cool idea so i'm gonna do it" honestly lol

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DreamingDrag0n In reply to glitchgoat [2018-09-16 01:23:17 +0000 UTC]

This helps thank you 😊

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glitchgoat In reply to Vusby [2018-05-09 21:31:57 +0000 UTC]

giving people false hope up in here
that's actually a part of why they commissioned me iiirc! because they didn't want it to be similar to Lurumon in a way that I wouldn't be okay with, so why not go to the source and just have me do it?

thank you! ;v;

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Vusby In reply to glitchgoat [2018-05-09 23:05:39 +0000 UTC]

Aha no problem. :´)

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