Can you stop and think what Characters are more representative of their creators?
That's the question I've been asking myself for the longest time. It seems that for every character, there is part of yourself as a creator or an actor that influences that Character's personality.
So as per part of this post to start off the new year of 2024, I like to dive into the nuts and bolts about characters in Cartoons, Anime, Video Games, etc. And try to research more about how close in personality to their creators they are.
Let's take Luz Noceda above for example. Her personality and her Bisexual relationship with Amity Blight is more in line with Dana Terrace to who, surprise surprise, is actually Bi. She came out as such back in 2017, a good 3 years before OWL HOUSE aired.
Now I'm actually straight but a do support Terrace's life choice.
Now let's get to other characters.
George Liquor:
Funny thing is, He's not based on John K but rather his Late Father Michael.You artists ever grew up with parents who fiercely have this no-art attitude and would prefer for you to think of working in the likes of construction, agriculture, military, etc?
I never had this type of thing but I know that my mother did have something like that where she was given an all-work-and-no-play lifestyle involving leathermaking.
Now I've had my share of reading John's fathers day stories about his mixed feelings living with his father. He hated dealing with his father's anti-cartoon sentiments but at the same time, he looks up to his father as an ideal MASCULINE FIGURE.
To the point that he modelled the dad in A VISIT TO ANTHONY after his own father.
But from what I can tell, John despised Randy Quaid's performance of the elder Kricfalusi and I'm not going to lie, thanks to the miracle of BEHIND THE VOICE ACTORS I heard the voice and it lacked the threatening boom in the cords.
What the "F" did Nickelodeon do? They should have casted someone with more BASS and Balls of steel like Richard White or even better, MICHAEL PATAKI.
So why did a cartoonist like John use his own father as a figurehead for complaining about the current generation of males?
Well my guess is that Michael had more hardships during the great depression and WWII to the point that this level of masculinity sets him apart from all the other males from the Boomer Generation and beyond.Because the Boomer Generation don't have that post-war freedom their parents had..... until Vietnam, they think they are entitled to what they want to do and my guess it drove their War Veteran fathers insane.
Michael was one of them. My guess was he regretted letting his son watch the Soviet Snow Queen during their stay in Europe before the early 60s and after seeing his own son watching the likes of Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, Disney, etc, he became irritated and tried his damned best to break his son.
But he failed (Not even Walt Disney's death was enough to break John fully).
But what he did get was his son later who grew up during the 70s and 80s bitching about the state of animation being nothing but plots about sharing and caring as well as bland animation.
Now lets' get into another character.... how about DOUG FUNNIE
Doug sort of represents the nervous but all-around kid in all of us and has been representing that since August 1991.
He's based on the experiences that creator Jim Jenkins had as a kid.
In my mind, he's also representative of the neurodivergent. Makes sense since his true voice actor Billy West is autistic so the casting was a match made heaven.
So in essence, I would say that DOUG should more or less represent the childhood of Billy West.
Brian Griffin is a bit of a controversial subject to use for this post but what the hey
Brian is sort of Seth Macfarlane due to his views on politics and religion.... that and the fact that Seth uses his natural speaking voice for this character.So what about my own Character: HAYDEN BRENTWOOD
He sort of is based off my childhood but more like if I had blond hair instead of black and had a larger family, and with autism that didn't dominate my mind.He mostly represents the ME that I should have grown up but it's sort of complicated to describe the backstory of the character so I'm saving that for a production bible.
I have more character-to-creator representations to go forth but I'm still decluttering my External Hard Drives for the Christmas Break so see you in January for the next part of this series of posts.
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