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The pixel art characters thread reminded me of how I came to make my current character, which was stumbling across a random image on the internet and just having an epiphany of an awesome character.
Anyone who know my character probably will draw the lines pretty quickly, but I think you can see what I was trying to get at.
What about the rest of you? Did anything inspire you to shape your character, perhaps an image or music? My character has her own theme song after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKlAgLQM7PA
By jwimpeney at Jul 9, 2015 8:19 AM
Hairstyle for my character was somewhat inspired by Lyndis from fire emblem, this image isn't the best for her hair reference but it's a cool picture of a great character :P It's mainly the back ponytail and i guess swordsman theme i took from lyndis
By Lightbox at Jul 13, 2015 3:13 PM
By Lightbox at Jul 13, 2015 3:14 PM
Hopefully this one worked but here's a separate link just in case (sorry for the spam)
https://40.media.tumblr.com/6598c17a98ab0cf677d239a51ecbd514/tumblr_nrg5yvbz6s1rq9f0uo1_540.jpg
By Lightbox at Jul 13, 2015 3:20 PM
Hopefully this one worked but here's a separate link just in case (sorry for the spam)
https://40.media.tumblr.com/6598c17a98ab0cf677d239a51ecbd514/tumblr_nrg5yvbz6s1rq9f0uo1_540.jpg
By Lightbox at Jul 13, 2015 3:20 PM
Don't have a picture or anything, but my character is basically my grandfather.
By Curt5 at Jul 14, 2015 9:03 AM
A mix of these two... Artist and Badass.
By dreambeats at Jul 14, 2015 9:17 AM
My inspiration largely came from this music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXYIxJScSik) although it wasn't till later that I realised I had probably drawn a lot of inspiration from the Nomad class of the Cyberpunk 2020 game subconsciously after reading through that ruleset and playing the game a little a few months earlier.
Otherwise... Generally all things with a mad max kinda theme about them although ironically I hadn't seen or really heard of mad max until i played this game (Note to the wise. WATCH THE NEW MOVIE! It is awesomeness encapsulated in a little three hour pill (take the blue one).)
Awesome little thread.
By Hailfire at Jul 16, 2015 6:06 AM
This might come as a surprise to some.
By SoulTune at Jul 16, 2015 6:13 AM
Mine was a combination. Pulled from my RL job and then mixed it up with one of my favorite characters from a TV show I watched - Kenzi from Lost Girl.
By Jade1202 at Jul 16, 2015 6:16 PM
Those who know me...
By clrux at Jul 17, 2015 9:25 AM
Raven Reyes from The 100; I had her loosely in mind when creating Raid:
By Adea at Jul 17, 2015 9:38 AM
my inspiration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h15FMDah3Rc
By brojo at Jul 29, 2015 2:18 AM
[imghttp://i.imgur.com/W5PGDLx.gif[/img]
By ShinMojo at Jul 29, 2015 2:24 AM
By ShinMojo at Jul 29, 2015 2:24 AM
By Kuzco at Aug 31, 2015 11:33 PM
Bah.
By Kuzco at Aug 31, 2015 11:34 PM
I love Kenzi from Lost Girl. :)
And Kuzco, I recognize that. I think so at least.
Mine is all in my head from a cyberpunk game I was in years ago (though she was younger) and was Cybergeneration. (Later a mix of CP2020 and CGen.) Go to the images page for some other CP ideas. http://www.sindome.org/images/
By thecraftydragon at Aug 31, 2015 11:41 PM
By InflictedPsycho at Oct 14, 2015 1:40 AM
By InflictedPsycho at Oct 14, 2015 1:41 AM
By InflictedPsycho at Jan 23, 2016 5:14 AM
Anyone who's looked at my character or seen the character portrait which I've posted elsewhere will know which of these guys inspired the physical half of my character.
The other half was inspired by a Neal Stephenson character who, as far as I know, has never been illustrated, who has the middle name of Percival, and who owned a chevaline. Which ALSO has never, as far as I've been able to find, been properly illustrated.
By bean_dip at Jan 23, 2016 11:50 AM
By Napoleon at Jan 23, 2016 6:37 PM
This is the physical basis for Owen Ralse.
By Daikaiju at Sep 13, 2016 9:35 AM
Well, hell. Let's try that again:
Luke Perry as Jeremiah Cloutier was the key inspiration for Owen Ralse.
By Daikaiju at Sep 13, 2016 9:37 AM
I got the idea for my character BEFORE SHE BECAME 'FAMOUS'
By whatislove00 at Sep 16, 2016 7:56 PM
By Fogchild1 at Sep 16, 2016 8:07 PM
Huh, well that didn't seem to upload...
By Fogchild1 at Sep 16, 2016 8:08 PM
By Heliodor at Sep 16, 2016 8:11 PM
While there was no direct inspiration for my character, this pose/character summarizes them pretty well.
By Stelpher at Sep 17, 2016 10:26 AM
I wanted a Samoan girl with poofy hair.
By Manywaters at Sep 17, 2016 5:46 PM
That one football player guy was probably the original inspiration :P
By Manywaters at Sep 17, 2016 5:49 PM
By Einfield at Sep 17, 2016 11:43 PM
This is what I meant to post!
By Einfield at Sep 17, 2016 11:45 PM
Couldn't remember his name, but my husband told me. :P
By Manywaters at Sep 18, 2016 1:49 PM
Loosely-based on an old character from Star Trek Online.
By Seurat at Sep 18, 2016 9:44 PM
I bet someone could really use this for some inspiration, huh?
By Heliodor at Sep 20, 2016 5:01 AM
My character that I'm currently on was intended to be
a big idiot failure categorically unsuited for life in the corporate dystopia hellhole.
Visually the first inspiration was Daisy Eisenreid, a character from this cool art blog: http://derekhetrickart.tumblr.com/
There's the main inspiration, although since its text based you can take it as gratis she isn't so... caricature-like, being a professional victim I choose a themesong that works as a sort of dirge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Js-XbNj6Tk
And finally the backstory is just one long, sad decline into blackness because my fetish is being horribly horribly depressing. Still, maybe I'll become the worlds goofiest razor-girl or something.
By Slipup_Artist at Sep 20, 2016 6:29 PM
By Caffeine at Sep 20, 2016 6:30 PM
I drew from quite a few sources, but this is clearly one I leaned more heavily on. Sulik, from Fallout 2:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sulik
By Rocksteady at Sep 21, 2016 6:18 PM
By thecraftydragon at Sep 24, 2016 11:25 PM
By Fogchild1 at Dec 3, 2016 1:21 PM
She doesn't look like Sarah Josephine Baker at all, but anyone who's met my character will probably get a chuckle out of the similarities:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php/index.php?id=335
By Vera at Dec 13, 2016 3:25 AM
Hahahahahahaha! I love it Vera.
By Manywaters at Dec 13, 2016 8:36 AM
A mish-mash of both characters, appearance-wise while the attitude is based on my main character from Remnants of Earth.
Small frame.
Grey-blue eyes, purple lips, and purple fingernails.
By Beepboop at Dec 13, 2016 11:02 PM
Off, that didn't work. Lemme try again since I can't edit my previous post.
By Beepboop at Dec 13, 2016 11:07 PM
Just realized the pictures didn't load on my post like two weeks ago.
Inspiration for the new character.
By Fogchild1 at Dec 20, 2016 1:21 PM
@Beepboop: Great character art, but the contrast between the two pictures confuses me xD
By Kuzco at Dec 20, 2016 1:36 PM
My character the past week.
Clearly this video was very inspirational.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccGOb0q-kuU
By coconut at Jan 4, 2017 7:24 AM
By coconut at Jan 23, 2017 10:19 PM
By Revex at Jan 23, 2017 10:24 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6qGyeIWFQ
Heh.
By 50tonsofflax at Jan 24, 2017 1:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aZoieVR51c
AHAHAHAHAHA!
By 50tonsofflax at Jan 24, 2017 1:12 PM
By Heliodor at Jan 24, 2017 1:15 PM
I... I think I might need to watch this show..
By MrJDucky2 at Jan 24, 2017 1:18 PM
Last one, I SWEAR it, this made me ROFL...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crDHIKi5I58
(although this would likely get you killed IG)
By 50tonsofflax at Jan 24, 2017 1:30 PM
The character I played previous to the one I'm playing now. (Although I had to leave him for a while, and once I returned felt I couldn't continue his story unfortunately.)
Was loosely based off of Wei Shen and Vincent from Sleeping Dogs.
By Ryuzaki4Days at Jan 24, 2017 3:07 PM
Ok, fuck it, I lied, this one made me giggle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74Jd6cdfYw
Fresh immie goes toe-to-toe with badass corpie.
By 50tonsofflax at Jan 24, 2017 5:44 PM
End goals.
By Spentario at Jan 25, 2017 12:22 PM
Why does everyone seem to want to play a badass? Badasses are no fun, overdone, and just, meh, seen it before.
Anyway, MrDucky, when you're done with It's Always Sunny, be sure to watch Trailer Park Boys. First time I watched the first few episodes I was so high I thought it was reality TV, I almost shat myself laughing. The crew actually bought a condemned trailer park in, what was it, Vancouver? And shot the whole thing there, very low-budget, very much early best take kind of stuff, and it shows through the whole series. And it is so... STUPID it's hillarious.
By 50tonsofflax at Jan 25, 2017 12:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJjHuRQkFcThis should be a familiar scenario to literally anyone in Red Sector.
By Vera at Jan 25, 2017 11:51 PM
By Seurat at Jan 26, 2017 12:37 AM
By Vera at Apr 19, 2017 2:33 AM
My character (not sure if I'm allowed to say who) is largely inspired by two Sindome PCs (not sure if I am allowed to name them here), Hideo from Neuromancer and Kar from Bulletproof Monk.
By Grey0 at Apr 19, 2017 4:46 AM
By Diani at Apr 19, 2017 8:32 AM
My current is based heavily on Wei shen from Sleeping Dogs.
But I'm definitely going to do a character based on Elliot from Mr. Robot at some point, it'd fit the theme so well.
By Ryuzaki4Days at Apr 22, 2017 3:57 PM
By villa at Apr 24, 2017 1:17 PM
A mix of this and a similar character model in the Shadowrun 5e Core Rulebook (whose picture I cannot find online oddly enough).
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By Dawnshot at Apr 24, 2017 1:45 PM
I mostly had an idea of a very confused young person, and wanted a background that would make them think Withmore was an improvement in their life. The rest was fleshing that out. I've since found an image that I've used to build the appearance from, but it's a photo, not a piece of art.
I've enjoyed the process of developing the character and seeing how others came to be.
By Meoris at Apr 26, 2017 3:51 PM
Also, along with the picture provided above, another inspiration for my character was Beanie Man (the dancehall/reggae artist).
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By Dawnshot at Apr 26, 2017 3:53 PM
By Meoris at Apr 26, 2017 4:03 PM
By urgentsurgeon at Apr 26, 2017 11:20 PM
By Reinhardt at May 2, 2017 9:49 AM
Clearly remember the concept behind Lena (first character) was Y.T. from Snow Crash. Fun fact: my intro to SD was done in concert with my boyfriend at the time. Within our first week in-city we definitely attempted to pickpocket Judge Murphy, which failed awesomely. And the boyfriend also later vindictively logged in as my character and flamed the staff and get me @newted, which I share because GUARD YOUR LOGINS!
Concept for Geronimo (second character) was high school history class, and he spent 90% of his time busking outside of the Drome (singing and getting drunk pretty much).
Concept for Navarre (third character)
Name: a nod to http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Anna_Navarre
Appearance: I was doing art projects for high school that required research into Indian art, henna, etc.
Fun fact: designed to be a short-term character to fill 8 weeks of vacation and then die of ...I had designed her condition with the aim of getting doctor characters more work to do (since this was pre-cyberware).
Concept for Goodman: I've always felt that the game is a great way to bring attention to important debates about the present day (ethics, identity, technology, religion) and wanted to challenge myself to see how intellectual concepts could be played out in a public way IC.
By Lena at May 18, 2017 9:22 PM
Goodman was a fun guy, shame I didn't see much of him.
By Kuzco at May 26, 2017 1:48 PM
And I've always seen Navarre as Anne from DE1. Always.
By Kuzco at May 26, 2017 1:48 PM
A young Japanese Ronin Orphan
By victormark121 at Jun 5, 2017 2:16 PM
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/394205773620151643/
By victormark121 at Jun 5, 2017 2:33 PM
My character's concept was loosely based on this dude. More of a 'where he might end' then a 'where he starts' of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-aJYKDiWw
By Grey0 at Sep 21, 2018 1:57 AM
Might as well be him, striking similarities.
By SmexyCucumber at Nov 14, 2018 9:34 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMS4lYA-hEo
Tom Cruise in this movie was the biggest inspiration.
By Grizzly666 at Nov 15, 2018 6:17 AM
Judge Dredd in Dredd Year One ebooks where he's young and eighteen fresh out of the Academy.
By Rangerkrauser at Nov 15, 2018 9:01 AM
By Revex at Nov 16, 2018 8:05 PM
My biggest inspirations came have been Molly Millions from the Sprawl/Neuromancer series, Y.T. from Snowcrash, Peter Steele from the band Type O Negative and Carnivore, along with several people I know or have met with interesting personalities.
By Varolokkur at Nov 16, 2018 8:44 PM
Let me try that again. I had absolutely no inspiration when making my character or direction besides their original goal they immigrated with. Then things happened and I tried to work with what I had, and thought, maybe I can make him like this guy Khaled Al-Asad from Call of Duty 4 because people change, with several twists.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/callofduty/images/5/55/Khaled_Al-Asad_COD4_Remastered.png/revision/latest?cb=20160930115552 And after constant failure on his own behalf, from others, and enough insight into the world, he now ends up more like a depressive, bitter, reclusive, cynical Luke Skywalker in TLJ with striking similarities to paint the picture. And it's nice to see we're getting more attention as a sphere, Revex. Maybe something has to change for my character right? But I doubt it. I see him living the rest of his days a failure in his eyes and everyone elses, with no calling being enough. Too little, too late, as they say.
By SmexyCucumber at Nov 17, 2018 8:14 AM
Didn't have any specific inspiration for my current character, but a quick look at this page made me figure out their 'type'... (https://goboiano.com/the-14-popular-dere-types-in-every-anime/)
"13. Hinedere
Takes the icy nature of the kuudere and combines it with the arrogant attitude of the kamidere. Hinedere characters are very cynical and sarcastic, but will show their soft side when a character breaks through their shell."
Add a German accent and a very 'doctorly' way and you have my character, basically.
By Evie at Nov 17, 2018 8:59 AM
Oh, and the full name of my character is something I took from an old roleplay-character of mine from a different game. The personality and background is all new, however.
By Evie at Nov 17, 2018 9:07 AM
Unironically realized I naturally drifted into Marie Kanker's look and personality.
By Ryuzaki4Days at Nov 28, 2018 2:35 PM
A little of this, a little of that.
[Noi from Dorohedoro, Rhea Ripley, Jesse Custer from Preacher, and Doom Lady]
By HolyChrome at Dec 2, 2018 6:46 PM
A certain bartender.
By PurpleParade at Dec 2, 2018 8:25 PM
^^^^ Photo I based my desc off of.
By PurpleParade at Dec 2, 2018 8:26 PM
haha
whoops
By HolyChrome at Jan 22, 2019 6:25 PM
By Supermarket at Feb 8, 2019 5:38 PM
Who better to brave the streets of Withmore?
By NickP at Feb 19, 2019 5:42 PM
By Hour at Feb 19, 2019 7:17 PM
last is too small
sorry I'd delete it if i could @u@
By Hour at Feb 19, 2019 7:19 PM
A mixture of the charm and personality of this person...
Along with all the fun things that this girl (by the artist Aosora-sky) does that are just too graphic for me to describe here.
By FairyBlue at Mar 2, 2019 11:57 PM
By Vera at Aug 27, 2019 11:24 AM
By Grizzly666 at Aug 27, 2019 11:57 AM
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
By 0x1mm at Aug 27, 2019 12:05 PM
By Jameson at Aug 27, 2019 1:04 PM
Horrendously obvious, I'm afraid.
By Razmo at Sep 6, 2019 11:15 AM
Big inspiration from the above mention, aaaaand these two absolute badasses.
By Razmo at Sep 6, 2019 2:21 PM
Junko Enoshima from Danganronpa
https://66.media.tumblr.com/01f5fea52922107714863eb471868eb1/tumblr_p7vxrjjeiU1xpryl4o4_250.png
Plus Helen of Troy
https://i0.wp.com/www.starkafterdarkonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/helen.troy_.jpg
Plus Sharon Stone from Total Recall
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/79/f8/d879f85c9365a671df5fb5008fb3b0ed.jpg
By Crooknose at Sep 6, 2019 2:55 PM
Got massively bored while waiting for something, and made this.
By RheaGhe at Sep 6, 2019 6:44 PM
After way too much time spent tracking down and installing Photoshop, screen capping a bunch of movies, and laughing at myself...
I bring you: Stereotypical Guy
By Hek at Sep 7, 2019 2:02 PM
My current living character's personality and interests were inspired by a different roleplay character of mine from another community (and completely different type of game, AKA not a MUD/MOO/etc.), the universe was an entirely different one too. But my character's name is from a completely different character of mine, from the same universe, that was basically a German full name that I turned into the English form of it. Sort of a literal translation, but the names are real.
Also loosely inspired by the musician Frank Iero earlier in his career (and younger), mostly appearance-wise.
By Evie at Sep 16, 2019 3:29 AM
For me, I actually didn't have any intention to play long on Sindome, so when I made my current character, I had intended to maybe play for a week to "see if the game grabbed me." lolololol.
So for my current character, I based her on a novel I had written several years ago. However, the world she was in is very, very different from Sindome, so I let that same character learn how to live in a cyberpunk environment, since the story she existed in is urban fantasy.
Other inspiration come from the photos, but I don't want to actually explain which ones are based on looks and which ones are based on personality. I'm thinking those who may know her will be able to figure it out. :)
By DoveCage at Sep 16, 2019 8:30 AM
Okay, the boards "upload image" button literally never works for me. Here's the image that was meant for my post:
By DoveCage at Sep 16, 2019 8:33 AM
I feel foolish for having not made this connection earlier.
It wasn't even my intention! 😂
By ynk at Sep 17, 2019 6:01 AM
CPAF Mother Teresa
“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
“Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.”
“I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”
By HolyChrome at Sep 28, 2019 3:29 AM
Good lord @HolyChrome those quotes in relation to Sindome. 😮
By ynk at Sep 28, 2019 6:00 AM
By HolyChrome at Sep 28, 2019 6:02 AM
I accidentally made a lesbian version of
By HolyChrome at Dec 7, 2019 2:45 AM
When I first joined Sindome I had it in my head that I'd make my character a lesbian for diversity (also for curiosity and to focus on story) but then I gradually realized y'all had that checkbox checked so hard the ink ran through to the next ten pages. 👍
By ynk at Dec 7, 2019 4:54 AM
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/ff/95/74ff95a5ad1918c05d1779c2410c7f42.jpg
'Nuff said.
By Evie at Dec 7, 2019 5:10 AM
By Evie at Dec 7, 2019 5:11 AM
Attempt 3 because why not..... -.-
By Evie at Dec 7, 2019 5:12 AM
Oh my god, Evie, how appropriately horrifying!
By DoveCage at Dec 7, 2019 8:01 AM
By Rangerkrauser at Dec 7, 2019 11:35 AM
@Ranger
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By HolyChrome at Dec 7, 2019 11:55 AM
I actually found some fanart of this character that is done cyberpunk-esque. Maybe you'll recognize another person from the same show in the background...
Okay, but at the core, this is my inspiration:
'Nuff said.
By Evie at Dec 7, 2019 11:58 AM
Also
By Evie at Dec 9, 2019 5:56 AM
Heck yes you restore that honor 😍
By ynk at Dec 9, 2019 6:59 AM
https://www.laurahrubin.com/
She's amazing and I love her art <3
By Pinklepop at Dec 9, 2019 7:33 PM
By HolyChrome at Feb 17, 2020 11:37 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_97q16TFxkJust the first short mostly. Ray Smuckles is a constant inspiration both IC and IRL.
By Vera at Feb 26, 2020 11:20 AM
https://youtu.be/E4SSU29Arj0
"We are the gods now."
By Pinklepop at Feb 29, 2020 11:26 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q
One day.
By crashdown at Aug 26, 2020 10:01 PM
By Wulf at Aug 28, 2020 6:42 PM
By svetlana at Aug 29, 2020 12:32 AM
Hmmm, current character was inspired by Tseng, of the Turks, (FF7 for you non nerds.) thrown in with a little dash of Fei Fong Wong (Xenogears.)
By Floki at Aug 29, 2020 3:29 PM
Inspiration for an old character.
By GhostInTheMachine at Sep 30, 2020 9:23 PM
By Stiza13 at Oct 8, 2020 2:29 PM
By NyanChicken at Oct 24, 2020 2:55 AM
By batko at Oct 29, 2020 10:45 PM
By FullDaDead at Dec 30, 2020 8:52 AM
By FullDaDead at Dec 30, 2020 8:52 AM
Unearthed more art by Vinne that perfectly fits my character.
By batko at Feb 14, 2021 1:06 AM
By Veleth at Feb 14, 2021 1:08 AM
By eggsaresides at Sep 5, 2021 6:21 PM
By eggsaresides at Sep 6, 2021 3:15 AM
By eggsaresides at Sep 7, 2021 12:11 AM
i arrive
By aethertm at Feb 15, 2022 9:24 PM
By Beepboop at Feb 15, 2022 9:49 PM
Thought about this when first writing up my char’s design
By CthulhuPakabol at Feb 18, 2022 8:46 AM
By 0x1mm at Mar 1, 2022 12:22 AM
By 0x1mm at Mar 1, 2022 12:42 AM
“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”
By CthulhuPakabol at Mar 13, 2022 12:26 AM
By CthulhuPakabol at Mar 13, 2022 12:27 AM
The Inspiration for my character boiled to a science.
By KayZach at Jun 25, 2022 2:56 AM
Ill never understand why Images never upload at the right size the first time. Sorry for cluttering. HOPING this works.
By KayZach at Jun 25, 2022 3:00 AM
By Reinhardt at Jul 1, 2022 4:40 PM
This guy.
By Sadko at Aug 26, 2022 3:01 AM
This is a cute thread.
By Kalii at Aug 28, 2022 4:36 PM
By BigLammo at Aug 28, 2022 4:53 PM
By Reinhardt at Nov 12, 2022 2:05 PM
Never read any of the comics.
By Risikio at Dec 8, 2022 7:00 PM
As I said, never read any of the comics.
By Risikio at Dec 8, 2022 7:06 PM
My Hero Academia has been my main source of inspiration for almost a year now (or longer). Gonna post only some of the inspirations I've received from it.. for different characters, probably.
There's probably been more.
By Veleth at Feb 18, 2023 8:24 AM
One failed. Re-try.
By Veleth at Feb 18, 2023 8:25 AM
This is what I meant to post!
