First Impressions on using these Character storage sites
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Giving them a test run and comparing them a lil bit. More of a first impression then anything. There's still a love I need to explore. They seem like a lot of fun and I can't wait to dig in more on each site!
Character storage sites I was using in the video. Give them a go. (Toyhouse you need a code. I do not have one. I am sorry. ;v; )
toyhou.se/
unvale.io/
characterhub.c...
I use Toyhouse and I like it because of how easily you can toy around with things. There's a lot of codes to customise profiles, you can add tabs for elaborations + I love the general layout. (Also forums).
I tried Unvale but I don't like the rules for "unpalatable things" because my ocs have lots of trauma and I don't wanna worry about my oc getting deleted or getting reprimanded for writing their character lore in full. (on toyhouse you can write all of character lore because there's warnings and stuff which I like)
Also on unvale the uploaded images are less high quality than toyhouse
Yeah the worst thing about the other sites is you can’t use codes for your characters. With codes on toyhouse you can really do whatever you want
Is toyhouse open now or do you still need an invitation?
@@ultimateidiot2344 still need an invite
yeah unvale compresses images like hell ;; it doesn't bother me since I store images elsewhere but I imagine it can get really annoying for people who somehow don't
I personally like th the most due to features. I'm not even using a membership, and I can do a lot of stuff for characters on there. And it doesn't feel too foreign if you know artfight. Which is the other place I host characters.
Toyhouse is by far my favorite of all time! There is SO MUCH you can do and I can't even begin to describe how much I love love LOVE it! (Seriously, I wish I could describe it. I'm on it every day. Been using it for over 7 years at this point). I can literally make wiki pages for characters! Tons and tons of different customization you could do! And aside from uploading images, you can upload literature too! And worlds!!
I'm also not into the adopt culture, I just want to write about my own little guys and store their silly images. But if you have a character made by a popular artist, you might get bugged by a lot of people wanting to buy it....
Stay away from the forums, apparently? I heard it sucks, people always talk about how bad it gets. I don't use the forums because my main focus is working on my characters, so I never get to see what's happening over there myself.
I tried Unvale for just a little bit and I'll admit it wasn't exactly my style. I might have been spoiled by Toyhouse's customization options, so Unvale feels very limited compared to that. However, my positive first impression is that it's very easy to get your characters seen! I got around 12 interactions on my characters in under an hour of uploading them, which is a lot for me. Someone even commented on my character, which was very nice!
I was interested in trying Characterhub, but people were saying that they support AI art, which scared me away from using it. The profile options seemed very nice, though!
That AI stuff is odd, I use Characterhub regularly and I've never heard of them supporting AI, where did you hear that?
where did you see that people on ch support ai art ? ik in the disc server the ch staff have been heavily against ai art. they also take down ai art posts n etc on their site lmao ? as someone who uses ch for awhile now, i think its the most interesting from all 3 sites- if you can get past how the ui isnt the best, lol. it offers quests and easy customization (if you dont wanna use codes or anything like that). js giving my thoughts.
Characterhub is really overwhelming to me. I tried it and it didn't really get me into it, everything is just too overstimulatinf to me. I love toyhouse but I think it has like an in between of the problems where it's very presentable but has too much going on because it has a bad ui which gives it a similar issue. And for unvale i think it probably is my favorite alongside TH if only it was more social, it makes me really sad unvale has no social stuff.
I use “MilaNote” (its an app) its easy to organize my ocs and stuff there (srry if you see a double comment)
Usualy people blink every 2-3 seconds in animation, instead of 1 every half a second,
Though they do blink alot when theyre emotional, slash about to cry!
End of fun fact
I'm still annoyed at this blinking animation!!!!! Been trying to fix it but getting distracted with other task and life. o
@MarshmellowMuffin FRICK, sorry, that's my other account. This is why I need to be awake fully to reply. 🫠
toyhouse has been my go-to for the last few years- its really simple and its actually helped me get better at html writing because of character profiles!! yeah you can use ones that other people make or frankenstein them together but you can also write your own character profiles.. i also love the sorting system. the only thing i dont really like about it is the moderation but thats a whole other bag to unpack. ive never personally tried the other two sites mentioned in this video but they seem very amino adjacent with their layouts
Fr!! Th is so customizable, it's fun to mess around with making profiles and suff, and also writing a lot of lore and not being afraid of it being taken down or smth (cuz we have profile warnings) lol
ive used all of these before and my favorites are probably unvale and toyhouse. i love how simple unvale is and whenever I make an oc I usually put it up on unvale first. using unvale to upload things first usually eliminates the stress of me making my ocs profile decked out immediately. i also think that the daily trivia can be pretty fun. i just wish unvale had more social features but I think they're working on that?? i use toyhouse to go much more in depth about my ocs since toyhouse doesn't have a character limit and profile customization helps a lot. i don't really know how to feel about characterhub tbh. I've uploaded like 2 characters on there and it just feels really overwhelming to me.
Osc pfp :]
ch is pretty fun balance between everything, as ive been using that more than all the other sites lately lol. if you can get past the ui (cuz at best, it really needs a revamp..) its pretty fun :D i love doing all the quests on ch lol. plus i think when you sign up for ch they give you a tutorial on how to navigate the site.
@@louzo5175 ya !! love sunny from objectified :3
@@TRINHPXL honestly the ui is what gets me lol I would LOVE a revamp. there's just so much going on. i think the main reason I kept coming back for ch was for the quizzes because those were kinda fun for a second. I've uploaded like 2 ocs on there some time ago and I've been meaning to go back and try it out again but just haven't felt like it lately . i don't think I know what quests are tho so ill try checking those out whenever I look at ch again !!
characterhub is definitely my favorite of the 3. it starts you off with a tutorial and it's a lot more social than the other two. it never felt overwhelming to me primarily bc of the tutorial (they better still be offering that tutorial when you make your account it was really helpful). quizzes are a bit boring and annoying (they're mostly rp type quizzes and i dont care for those) but it's really nice to participate in the events and eventually you start recognizing users around the site, especially if you get into raffles (raffles are user hosted and people who enter them usually enter more than one). social spaces are just spaces that hold chatrooms that you CAN use for rping but there is also the rolechat feature which i haven't looked into much since i don't typically rp with my ocs. i've been meaning to get into some social spaces but i have social anxiety so it's a bit scary lmao. and bc of the feed it's a lot easier to get people interested in your stories and characters so you can try and form a lil fanbase. AND they can submit you fanwork on site. they can draw your ocs and even write about them :) it just feels a lot more welcoming and it's less just storage and more sharing and social aspects which is exactly what i've been looking for in a character storage site lmao i also really like all the options you can put in for your character. unvale also has these but i just i like characterhub better and they have a lot more preset ones and it's pretty guaranteed that someone will look at your guy at some point. also you can keep stuff as drafts or private/unlist them which is nice.
i just really like characterhub man
joined ch last month, they still have the tutorials :D it's still slightly overwhelming to me but I'm willing to let it slide. yeah I started a quiz on one of my first few days on the site and still haven't finished it. I'm not very social but I plan to be once I actually get all of my ocs in the site. I agree with the higher chance people will see your guys, even though more people favorite my unvale stuff I feel they don't actually check them out ;; and the unlisted stuff is amazing as well. I agree on the characterhub hypetrain!!
Haii :) This is a small critique/ tip on ur lil sprite so ignore if ur not interested lol.
The tones on your sprite are very similar making it hard to see the expressions clearly. Since it lacks the contrast needed to focus on the face.
To easily fix that you can add some minor shading/gradients on the characters purple fur/skin (kind of like you did on the dress and hair) or just making the outlines around the face in particular darker.
It should be an easy fix that helps if you want to avoid using darker line art overall :) I like color my line art similarly to how you have it now, but then I darken it and add more vibrancy. Super cute character regardless! Hope this helps :)
I tried toyhouse once but got overwhelmed so fast.. same with characterhub at first but giving it another try, I really like it, it's pretty simple with lots of options
Character hub is my personal fav, something abt the way Unvals looks feels, idk, corporate. which to me is a pretty off putting aesthetic for an OC website.
I love all the features on Character Hub, it feels like there's never a lack of things to do which I enjoy.
Also the way the chat rooms are set up remind me of the way Amino chat rooms used to look, which for me is nostalgic, but I can imagine other ppl getting war flashbacks from it.
absolutely, I felt really put off by the investing in unvale thing as well.
Same, Unvale feels very amino-esq to me which is not a good thing
@@TwigCommenter apologies shoulda made it clearer in comment, I meant Character Hub reminds me of Amino.
unvale has the amino aesthetic now that I think about it, it is def very similar.
but character hub has a lot of the features that amino had, including the way the chat rooms are set up which looks damn near identical to Amino.
i recently migrated from artfight to toyhouse
feels much, much more organized than im used to
and the customizability is insane! no other site can compare ngl
though, if you dont care about custom pages, i bet a folder on your pc works just as well
I love toyhouse. It is so flexible especially if you are familiar with html and css coding. It’s a lot, if you’re just starting out, but it can be so helpful to have organised drawings of your ocs online.
I'm an Unvale person.
it's easy to use and there isn't too much distractions, I find it a good place to addd my kiddos too
CharacterHub reminds me of Amino from the layout without the chats ngl
i've used all 3 over a period of time and id have to say, all these oc storage sites just.. depend on what someone is looking for.
toyhouse is a good oc storage site to do crazy customization due to coding, and it also has a big trading culture / marketplace culture. theres usually no community sense in it, since the market culture is bigger than the oc aspect of it. however since th has been around longer than any oc storage site, its more known. the th ui also looks pretty okay, not the prettiest but not the ugliest either. just beware there isnt. that much community/social aspects to it, lmao. if you're looking for character customization though, th works bc its limitless (as long as yk how to write or edit codes lmao). as for the others, they dont offer limitless customization like th.
unvale is good, i love the ui and all but ? it doesnt add much incentive for me to personally keep coming back. the events they hold is usually the same concept (draw ur oc in said image or whatever) but diff themes--. i love the customization for uv too, esp if you're not into coding your oc's profiles and just want the basics. people are definitely more social there though, via comments on your oc's pages. however, lately, the more ive been on uv, i keep seeing more oc profiles that are just.. ? sharing arts of said creator, and not actually an oc. like. it feels like its becoming an art site, not an oc site. anyways, the investing thing too also feels. sort of off for me lmao.
characterhub, is my personal fav as of late. it doesnt even have trading culture like th does, bc they dont even have features for it. ch is moreso community and social based, your oc's may not get as seen on occasions but usually the community is VERY friendly, if i had to compare it to another aesthetic of how the site works, id definitely say amino. and i dont mean that in a bad context at all either. CH has chat rooms to socialize w other oc artists and such. my personal fav feature is the events that they roll out every week, last week there was character olympics lol. the quests keep it lively, and the customization isnt limitless but still pretty damn good. its also relatively simple. i get its overwhelming at the start but if you can get past it, ch is SMMMM fun omg. another big feature of ch is compliment bombs, i forgot the requirements to get a compliment bomb, but if you buy a compli bomb (i think its $6 or $5 usd) your oc will get featured on the front page of the site :] i think if you compliment enough targets on compliment bomb front page, you get a compliment bomb urself ! i decided to use one on my oc and got 80+ comments. the community is truly nice in ch :] !!!
ch fan here. used unvale for a while, felt offset by things (mainly the lack of community i feel) and the investing stuff feels off to me. learned of ch through a youtube sponsor and joined because of the color pallete feature, its slightly overwhelming but i still love it. havent checked out toyhouse and i feel a bit scared to.
I completely forgot about my UnVale account until I saw this video, I should probably put things on there - :)
For holding my characters, I use google docs/slideshow.
OMGGG finally, I was thinking about joining a site like those but couldn't decide, and I didn't know more existed. Thx for this vid.
I use toy house as a third back up but it takes a lot of time for me to put up my characters on there
So I mainly use google docs + drives and old usb ports as a two part system.
I think it’s important to have a minimum of 3 places where art and characters are stored =v=
I've used all of them, and so far CH is top for me, then Toyhouse 2nd. I just like the community aspect of CH more. I do hope you'll enjoy using it though and find out which one works for you ^^
The Fanworks tab for CH is for when people submit fanart for your character, it'll show up all in that one tab (same with the fanart you've done and submitted for other peopel).
(Also hey, that's me on the CH home page ! :D You scrolled past my OC, Gladys and my VGen commission art)
I was gonna reply and then I realized.. I recognize your username from c.hub! yeah, ch is top for me as well, haven't used toyhouse but unvale feels very off to me for some reason.
"That's why you came here, baby four." Damn, what about baby three?
@@SocialBubblia we don't talk about baby 3.😔
Uploading Characters and images Unvale feels kinda overwhelming to me , especially with if you are trying to bulk upload images and your connection gets interrupted you have to restart. But the presentation of Unvale is pretty great, and the ability to add a character to multiple worlds is something I wish Toyhouse would let us do with the folders.
But at the moment I am the most comfortable with Toyhouse. Might just because I have gotten used to the upload process, but over all the features is something it offers covers more than enough for what I want to do despite some minor annoyances.
i always recommend Th for how simple it can be and how easy it can to use
Honestly, i tried toyhouse once but its so confusing and complex for me. I dont know how to make pages, to add my characther voice claims, hell, perharps even make one!
Yeah, when I first started using TH it was too confusing and complex. I watched some tutorials, and eventually using the site became easy. I've been using it 2022, and it is my favourite character storage website I've used.
atp im just gonna put my ocs on a website and just show people the website when they ask
theres TOO many oc sites get rid of em /j
If anyone wants TH codes, I have some. 👀
Can you send me one?
@@Clover573 yes, here is a few in case someone takes any ^^
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ive used th and unvale, characterhub looks interesting so i'll check it later
th its, its fine, i like the coding part, but I dislike forums and how it feels hard to find some community or something, I've never gotten lucky with the algorithm though so, its whatever, I mostly get bored using it so its just, an archive thats about it
Unvale is worse, I love the daily trivia and the about section, but thats about it, it feels like the tiktok of character creation, atleast with toyhouse you do get the comfort that people are looking and reading about your oc, with unvale people just like it like it was a reel, there is no blogging, feels terribly hard to find a community ect.
the tiktok of character creation.. you're a bit too on point there. I've used it and I get surprised at how many people like my silly guys, yet it always feels like they just like every oc they see. at this point people use uv as an art site, it got annoying so I moved to character hub.
I’ve been trying to write personality’s for my characters and so far the only one I’ve liked is character hub, the tutorial felt nice and it’s not hard to get into
I’d like to try toyhouse but I don’t get why an invite is needed or how to get one..
if anyone needs a toyhouse code let me know, I have a few I can give out!
Hey just thought I'd ask do you still have a code for toyhouse? Totally ok if not
@@Galixye i do indeed!
@@Devyn_Gremlin oh cool would I be able to have one(completely if not!)? I've been trying to organise all my ocs on paper so far haha
@@Galixye absolutely!
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ok i'm like 2 minutes in but i won't lie, the devs of characterhub contacting the email i signed up with to ask me why i wasn't using it turned me away.
I just really don’t like how th has no easy way to get a code, I’ve been trying for a while but I haven’t been able to get a code. I get trying to be secure but if you don’t know someone on th you basically can’t get a code to get in :(
pspsps any way to contact you ? i have th codes ! :3
EXACTLY LIKE I WANNA PUT MY SILLY OCS ON ERE BUT UGHHDHIGVHH
@@TRINHPXLCan I have one if that's okay with ya ofc !! /nf
@@TRINHPXL tumblr? It’s the same as my RUclips name
As much I am willing to use toyhouse, I still have no code to access it.. :[
I tried both unvale and characterhub, but I immediately left it in 2 or 3 days... it just feels... boring.. but probably because of customizations.
Chracterhub has that but unvale doesnt.
Idk how far toyhouse can let you customize your oc profile, but yeah.. no code
the person below your comments is giving put codes
I really want to get into Toyhouse but I can't find anyone to give me a code 😭
Question: Is it okay to use AI for personal use for your characters if you're not selling the art? I don't have any art skills and I'm living paycheck to paycheck so I can't pay for anything. I just need a quick way to visualize my characters especially characters I don't use often.
@jenise21 You're going to have to take that up with your morals, friend. But don't put yourself down like that! You have art skill, you just have to sharppin them! RUclips basic art tutorials are free, a pen can be free if you know where to look, drawing on receipt or junk mail is also free! You got this! I think it's WAY more interesting when writers or beginner artists draw out thire characters, it always comes out very charming and cool as heck!
@@Alreadyishneeded to hear this myself. Was always more of a writer cuz i never was that good at drawing people (i can draw stuff like landscapes but i can only draw people as stick figures) and honestly trying to get into art in general is kind of scary because having to train and better art skills definitely takes a while. maybe ill look at a drawing tutorial or two if i have the time. ik you literally weren’t even talking to me specifically but thanks for saying this
I would use toyhouse but I can’t get a code to make an account which pisses me off enough to ignore it. Why do I need a code from someone who is already on the website to make an account??? It seems really stupid honestly.
Plenty of people give out free codes on DA, Discord, Reddit, and sometimes even RUclips. You just need to ask around.
I was able to get three separate codes really easily and quickly...
it's just to not have random people join, it makes it a bit more secure
I use toy house as a third back up but it takes a lot of time for me to put up my characters on there
So I mainly use google docs + drives and old usb ports as a two part system.
I think it’s important to have a minimum of 3 places where art and characters are stored =v=