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21. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:11 GMT

Machamp_King wrote:

You people may think that Sonic has bad Fanart,but i'm gonna compare it to a Series that has even worse fanart...
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I don't get it, that Gyarados looks pretty good.

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22. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:14 GMT

@Machamp_King - Nobody said that all Sonic fanart is bad. In fact, there's quite a bit of it that I personally enjoy, as you can see by my sig. It's the endless amounts of recolored fan characters and the "disturbing" stuff that gets in the way of the good art that's bad.

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23. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:14 GMT

Spark_Of_Spirit wrote:

There are all kinds of Sonic fans, though. Classic fans, Adventure fans, Modern fans, cartoon fans, comic fans, casual fans, hardcore fans, kids, adults, teenagers, and fans that are a mix of multiple things. It's hard to pin it down to saying things like: "the kid who plays Sonic CD is the equivalent of the guy who made Sonichu."

It's a bit disingenuous.

Yes, there are fans who go overboard, but no more than there are Mario, Pokemon, or Zelda fans that are just as vicious or out there. The Sonic fanbase just became a punching bag because of Shadow, 06 and Sonic's general lapse in popularity a few years ago that people actively seeked to mock it by searching for this stuff. There's even worse Pokemon related stuff out there, but you don't hear about it nearly as much.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it's the fanart. I typed in "sonic fanart" on google images, and I know for a fact I can't post half the stuff(rule 34, why must you pollute the Internet with your vulgarity?), the rest was just official art recolored or thrown in with other official art.

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24. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:22 GMT

I can say the same for pretty much any anime, dude. Seriously.

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25. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:28 GMT

CanisWolfred wrote:

I can say the same for pretty much any anime, dude. Seriously.

Yes, but the Sonic series seems to have an especially high concentration of it.

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26. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:33 GMT

True_Hero wrote:

CanisWolfred wrote:

I can say the same for pretty much any anime, dude. Seriously.

Yes, but the Sonic series seems to have an especially high concentration of it.

You obviously haven't looked up Gundam on Pixiv. And I can't blame you for that. There's plenty of Good Fanart, there, but there's also plenty of good Sonic fanart. Most of it, however, is pretty terrible if you aren't looking at the most popular stuff. In fact, most fan art out there is terrible, because they're usually drawn by amatuers who haven't invented their own stuff to draw yet.

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27. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:45 GMT

CanisWolfred wrote:

True_Hero wrote:

CanisWolfred wrote:

I can say the same for pretty much any anime, dude. Seriously.

Yes, but the Sonic series seems to have an especially high concentration of it.

You obviously haven't looked up Gundam on Pixiv. And I can't blame you for that. There's plenty of Good Fanart, there, but there's also plenty of good Sonic fanart. Most of it, however, is pretty terrible if you aren't looking at the most popular stuff. In fact, most fan art out there is terrible, because they're usually drawn by amatuers who haven't invented their own stuff to draw yet.

Right. I wasn't saying there isn't any good Sonic fanart (in fact, I have some good examples in my sig), it just seems to get eclipsed by the bad. I'm sure that many other series suffer from this as well, though.

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28. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:46 GMT

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most fan art out there is terrible, because they're usually drawn by amatuers who haven't invented their own stuff to draw yet.

To be fair everyone starts out as an amatuer. No one can just start out drawing Mona Lisas or The Creation of Adam.
(I personally hate the good fanart of things I like, because it makes me jealous; those people and their fancy photoshop and/or paint tool sai; all I got is an old-fashion drawing pad.)

But then there's that disturbing truth I found out from somewhere; that no matter what name you type in before "the hedgehog" on google images, there's ALWAYS a fancharacter with that name. Try it if you dare...

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29. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 23:00 GMT

Out of curiosity, is there a reason why Sonic's fanbase seems to be worse than that of so many other series and attract so many crazy people? I've always wondered that.

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30. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 23:07 GMT

Austroid wrote:

CanisWolfred wrote:

most fan art out there is terrible, because they're usually drawn by amatuers who haven't invented their own stuff to draw yet.

To be fair everyone starts out as an amatuer. No one can just start out drawing Mona Lisas or The Creation of Adam.
(I personally hate the good fanart of things I like, because it makes me jealous; those people and their fancy photoshop and/or paint tool sai; all I got is an old-fashion drawing pad.)

I know that. I'm one of those amatuers, though I don't do much fan art because...I just just don't like doing it. I was mearly implying that people tend to focus more on their own stuff once they get good enough. Hence why there isn't as much good fan art.

Edited on Mon 28th January, 2013 @ 23:09 by CanisWolfred

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31. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 23:09 GMT

@CM30 - Try reading the article I posted on the first page. It explains a lot of why the Sonic fanbase is so fractured. :)

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32. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 23:10 GMT

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33. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 23:47 GMT

Well Sonic games have been getting better.Sonic Colors and Generations were both great and fun.Even Sonic Unleashed if you can stand the werehog levels.Personally i stopped playing unleashed because i didnt want to go though the werehog levels.However if you could like my brother; he really enjoyed it.
I am hopeful the sonic games will remain good in the future.

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34. Posted: Mon 28th Jan 2013 23:50 GMT

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...and the worst part is the driver was a fan :O

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35. Posted: Tue 29th Jan 2013 04:20 GMT

@LZ - Wait, how did you change your name so fast? It was @spicyLZwings earlier.

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36. Posted: Tue 29th Jan 2013 04:40 GMT

Well I am fast like Sonic the Hedgehog :)

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37. Posted: Tue 29th Jan 2013 05:06 GMT

Well Captcap6 summarized all things sonic(06-09) and his fanbase in this video
http://m.youtube.com/#/user/captpan6?&desktop_uri=%2Fuser...

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38. Posted: Tue 29th Jan 2013 05:07 GMT

Genwunners. Your argument is invalid.

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39. Posted: Tue 29th Jan 2013 05:10 GMT

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I'm still waiting Sega.

He's arguably your best bet for a sucessful spin-off.

Edited on Tue 29th January, 2013 @ 05:10 by Austroid

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40. Posted: Tue 29th Jan 2013 09:04 GMT

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@LZ - Wait, how did you change your name so fast? It was @spicyLZwings earlier.

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