The reasons why I strongly prefer less popular Female characters
I was talking to Steven Carson not too long ago about how I was rigorously searching around for vendors and artists capable of creating certain characters from popular franchises that had characters no one really cared much about. Characters who are less popular in nature so that I can use them for the number of upcoming projects I have planned.
One of the unique and interesting things about me is that unlike 99% of the sexually explicit artist you can find on the web that uses mainstream characters in their content is that I STRONGLY prefer characters that very few people are using for a variety of reasons.
One of the reasons why I go for the less popular is due to the amount of potential they would have in my assignments. Others may not see it, but I have a much greater vision than my competitors out there, and so I see the benefits the less loved could possess. I know how to take unpopular characters that are completely unknown or those who are easily forgotten and give them a greater purpose than anyone else.
I understand how complex and difficult it is to really write an engaging story. Writing is not something a lot of people can do either, especially when they are producing something with explicit content in it. While some people are just "Pornographic artists" who like placing their favorite or whoever happens to be the most notorious character in sexual or erotic situations and they gain a massive following for it. There are those of us who really want to give characters whether they belong to us or someone else, a chance to do a lot more before we decide to present them in a dirty situation.
Your out Jill, now its my turn to get famous..But first lets make a baby.
Let's take Claudia Wolf from Silent Hill 3 for example. No one else has made any use of this character other than me, there aren't any nude pinups or anything on her...Is it because Silent Hill is no longer relevant anymore? No not at all, it's because Silent Hill has a reputation for not having appealing women that caught on...Just like Resident Evil have several women that got shunned as well...How many explicit images can you find of the Outbreak Cast??
But when I started using Claudia (who I created myself from the ground up without seeking out an artist to make her for me), I realized she had something going for herself and belonged in a series that would be suitable for her to become relevant in some way or another. Maybe not relevant to the point where everyone else will start using her...But relevant enough for me to establish a deeper understanding as to whom she is in my own fictional universe I built around her. I also don't like the idea of using characters that too many people are relying on as their bread and butter.
I prefer seeing a less popular face thrive in conflicting and graphically erotic situations and because sometimes certain characters also fit my ideal woman in terms of appearances and what they could do in the worlds I put them in. I know exactly what roles they would be perfect for, and those roles add to the context of the situations they are likely to face. Most artists don't really seem to realize that character growth is possible even outside of their own universe. And if they aren't interested in story-driven experiences like I am...They can still do regular explicit material with some of these lesser characters that are shunned and ignored.
Nothing on Yoko according to my findings...Yoko is An average Japanese girl character but I would love to see her involved in my Ghost Runner series which is always in dire need of Japanese and Chinese characters for those hard at work nurses with beautiful long legs in a medical facility, young interns walking the halls with their heads down avoiding eye contact, students with an appetite for learning the distorted world around them, and sexy powerful female executives who just can't wait to dominate some helpless young girl in the office when they are finally alone.
Another reason why I rarely use anyone famous in my work is due to the over-saturated nature of how often a specific character is used. I believe that any character that has been used up too much loses value over time and that it is the characters no one bothers to do anything with that are more worthy to make use of. It's not like people don't know who some of these characters are just because they are unpopular..It's just that they have a niche fanbase.
Some characters are notorious enough to appear in a few explicit images throughout the web but nothing all that spectacular, and then you have others that are neglected entirely...
I know I'm not the only one who hates seeing Lara Croft all the damn time and finds her to be extremely overrated...I would also have to question why would anyone prefer Quiet from Metal Gear over Sniper Wolf when Sniper Wolf is ten times more sexually appealing. The market is full of female characters that rarely see the light of day, and that's exactly why I strongly prefer those who are ignored.
Steve Carson was talking to me about how he never sees any of the women from The Yakuza games in any sexual material..and I explained to him that Yakuza despite being a successful series, the characters aren't popularized enough to appear in anything outside of the Yakuza games., They are in the same boat as the Silent Hill cast. Sometimes people fear taking risk with characters they don't feel would draw in the major attraction. But I don't think that way, because I believe any character can make an impact within the sexual market.
I did have plans to give a News Reporter or Jr highschool teacher/principal role to Saori Shirosaki. Although I found her painfully irritating in Judgement..and couldn't stand her ass at all.
I don't have to necessarily like a character or their personality from where they originally came from. Sometimes I do stay true to their persona but I'm also likely to alter and change them to blend into my own worlds that I invented myself. If a character looks a specific way I didn't like, I'm willing to give them a whole new look altogether just as long as people can recognize who that character is.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that sometimes the characters who are less popular usually are the ones who are interesting than the ones everyone use the most. While some characters may be popular enough within the SFW environment because I'm positive I can find a lot of clean images on some of the few characters that don't appear much in anything dirty. I have never been the type to rely on mainstream characters. And it's not just characters from video games I make use of either.
I have been known to use characters from animated TV shows and characters portrayed by real people if I could find them a role or a purpose in something I was doing. Or I just felt like rendering an image of that character... Some characters are easy enough to build myself without going to a vendor. I created Claudia Wolf, Sadako, Slit Mouth Woman, Kayako, Velma, The Kanker sisters, and so on. If their clothing is something simple, the rest comes rather easy.
Almost anybody can create their own Sadako..Just add long black hair, and a white dress and you got yourself a Japanese female ghost. Nobody really sees her face much, so almost any Japanese face would work on her considering she was portrayed by a lot of different Japanese actresses. She's possibly one of the only main popularize characters I use the most right up there with Velma. I mostly tend to make my own characters vs relying on someone else's.
