Not Sure Where to put this... (Questions about Adoptables)

[Shizu]

Hi, many don't know me (as to be expected, I'm a pretty boring fur) but I would just like to understand why everyone goes on and on about adoptables. Personally, I don't get it, and when an artist just mass-produces them as if basically filling in their own (or another artist's) base like a paint-by-numbers it makes me feel sad/angry.

Please understand I am not referring to artists that actually, to put it nicely, put effort towards the adoptables. I mean artists who pretty much recolor their own art and such. It pisses me off when I see them auctioned off from a set usually hitting double digits and people throw oodles of cash at them, and for what? A cookie cutter creature with a recolor? I don't understand it.

If anyone has input or personal stories I'd love to hear them. Are you an artist? Do you make adoptables, or have you bought one yourself? etcetc

I'm not trying to be a dick. ._.

[kernac]

Cookie cutter stuff is kind of shameful, but honestly I've only ever seen it once before, most of the time artist actually make each adoptable unique. Been in the furry fandom for 9 years now and I've only seen someone do cookie-cutter adoptable once before, so I don't imagine its that common.

[Shizu]

Cookie cutter stuff is kind of shameful, but honestly I've only ever seen it once before, most of the time artist actually make each adoptable unique. Been in the furry fandom for 9 years now and I've only seen someone do cookie-cutter adoptable once before, so I don't imagine its that common.

Hi! Thanks for responding! It mostly happens on FA to be honest, but what irks me the most is when they auction them off. I mean hell, some well for 50-90$+ and up. An artist can make my weeks salary in one day from auctioning off adoptables. Yes, there's work involved but when all you see in your feed is YCH, Adoptables, and raffles from an artist's account it almost appears that they are a damn content mill.

[AlluringPredation]

I would like to make adoptables, but the target (vorish) market is a fair bit smaller. Especially as I like to make monstergirls which I'm not sure how well received they'd be on FA.

I like the idea of adoptables, when they are unique. I see some artists use a mold 4-6 times, and give each their own unique flair. And while it dilutes the originality some, it's still there. What's worst is not the artists that sell the molds, but the users who buy the molds and sell off characters in mass production. Using only the basic colors skills to add unique markings, and that's it. That I don't care for so much. But then again the market for mass produced characters is reduced, they might try to sell a character for a high cost point, doesn't mean someone's going to pick it up. The unique ones I see going for a lot more money more consistently.

Kernac, lemme point you at my favorite mold. The flying teacup fox, a design I found to be quite great, but done to death. Been around nearly a year and a search brings up about 300. There's quite a few of these. Different molds I mean. There is also a template maker, which adds a fair bit more variety for species. But I've seen the same pose thousands of times, which isn't bad by any means as the studio creating the template is constantly adding new options. But still gets stale after a certain point.

Not saying it's good or bad, supply and demand in my opinion. If people are becoming willing to shell out big money for template characters, then there's a hole that can be filled as an artist. Unique adoptables aren't so common from what I've seen, most go quickly if of quality. People like getting things instantly when they like what they see. There's YCH, but that's not instant and if you don't have anything but a description things can go wrong. So picking up a quick cookie cutter character may be a starter to be handed to an artist, better ensuring the purchaser of the YCH auction will get what they want. In a unique pose.

Just my observations over the last half-year.