I know right!

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9355359/

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OMG I NEED TO FOR ALL OF THEM.

I came here to post this xD

Wow. and they could make their own with how hard they work at this too. -.-

Not entirely true. When I adopted my [ IRL ] cat, I had to pay $35 to the Animal Shelter.

The adoption fee is to pay for vaccinations and neutering, which is really a steal if you get $35. Cost like, what, $90 to get our stray kitten spayed? Either way, adoption services have a fee. Street side pickups do not.

Before you continue digging yourself a figurative hjole to fall into, you might want to back up your statement to prove that adoption NEEDS to be free from money transations.

This is why I don't adopt characters.

I've only brought an adopable once. and I don't feel silly about it. The artist was in a bad spot and needed some money so I helped out. ^^

But even though I did that I don't really understand adoptables, if you like the design make a character with a similiar one ^^

I 'bought' an adoptable once. Was one character in the design, and was free, so I said why the heck not.

I should get more art for hte guy, flesh him out a bit :3

I've nvr bought an adoptable. Mine were given to me for use since they would not draw em.

artists can work in funny ways... I mean most charge $15 for a comic of 5-7 pages... most pay $5.99 for a manga

Well the difference in that case is because of how publishing works. If a manga book of 200 pages or so is printed several thousands times for the many potential sales they may make to many many customers, then they can plan to sell each book for $6 each. In the case of these commissioned comic pages, they are only made for ONE person to buy, therefore justifying the higher price for each page with the amount of work put into them.

yea that is true... but still $15 a comic O_O... then again your saying someone spent $80 for an adoptable XD which I do believe since I seen loads of adoptables and ... stupidly enough have a friend who bought one but it was with DA points that she got from commissions... this is sounding worse and worse as I go on isnt it XD

I don't know that anyone actually bought any for $80. I just used the number as an extreme example, but I guess it is still possible.

if brian cox told me anything its that anything can happen at any time so... yea $80 for a burger with a pair of eyes obviously XD

I have seen artists post them for as much as 80, even seen some with bidding on them that got upwards of 120ish

That's a bit expensive for a burger with eyes DX

6 bucks, where you getting you Manga? I was getting them for 10 o.o

You are awesome!

Art adoptable is a waste of money. I never liked them how are they personalized? They are just the same image with some small changes.

Ouch. That's painful.

Adoptables always struck me as a weird and stupid idea, because it really makes no sense with some of these prices, $15 a pop? The hell is this, now granted, I could see them not being a terrible idea if it was a character with a full ref, but most are just the same template with different designs added to them, why not commission the artist anyways? Its just a weird practice that seems pointless.

From what I can tell it'd be like Marvel selling Wolverine's intellectual rights to a fan, except it isn't Wolverine it's some random character nobody really cares for like Jubilee or Glob.

According to my understanding of it the "appeal" (I use the term for lack of a better one) to adopting a character design is moving the intellectual copyright of the often recolored clone from the creator to yourself. Roughly and depending on where it's posted, according to copyright law the creation is the intellectual property of the creator when posted to the internet. For instance, my character Draco belongs to me, but I always use "fair use" licenses where other creators can utilize the design if given permission.

To sell a character for profit to me cheapens the bond between creator and created. I view this practice as a way to appeal to a crowd that has little to no creative prowess and if they do buy into it they deserve what they get. Am I a fantastic artist? Heck no, all I can seem to do is sketch trees. Would I buy an adoptable? Probably not, unless it came with a plush or something then maybe. $80? That's a bit steep, $35 for the intellectual rights of the throw-away character and a plush of it? Yeah more reasonable, might even go up to $60 seeing as it'd be a custom made plush, those are hard to do.

Tangent aside, I see the appeal, and the target audience, it's not something I'd do or agree with. Unless there's a tangible product involved that is.

I havebought an adoptable. the big appeal was that they took a base and did colors and some shape adjustments for me to make a character the way I wanted. so it basicly was a commision of a race that the artist had made. all in all, I was verry happy with the results. and glad I didnt just take one of the premade ones.

I've seen cases where the "artist" doesn't even make the race. Just plainly stealing an original race from someone else for selling a gazillion recolors.

It's true you don't actually need to pay to use an adoptable design. But it's just as true that deliberately using a design someone else was selling off just means you're an asshole looking to stir up trouble. Once again, nobody wins! n_n

Oh, furries.

Yeaaah, that is true, and I would never actually do that myself. But I just wanted to make a point. XD

Eh, fair enough. I always thought they were quite silly myself, but then I'm 'just a writer', what do I know? ;P

I always figured I could just design my own...

Then again, sometimes 'this' happens... http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9062924/

This is so lulzy! I KNOW RIGHT!?

For a while I created characters classed as "Seedlings" which were pretty much adoptables before they came popular and oversaturated. Seedlings were unique and one-of-a-kind... and no re-colors or cloning. You could choose to rent a seedling which would get you a date with him/her for a picture or two for a reduced commission price, or buy the unique character which came with a signed and watermarked info sheet that was privately delivered by email only for the buyer to upload, then I would take that character down from my gallery. It worked well for a while but the modern adoptables that came out 3 months later shat upon my business. >:[

...So...if I were to make a character (Or race) based on the design on this comic, it's cool with you...? Or do I have to bring it up with somebody else?

I do not think you need anybody's permission to create a new character.

...Alrighty then...Please disregard the very same comment I made on your DA account (I was trying to ask the question there). *DARTS OFF!*

This is still very relevant.

This is relevant only with artists who sell a single adoptable design multiple times.