#homelessocproject

Hello all! We ended up with three entries to our mascot design contest, which is far less than we would have hoped, but they were still three very unique and adorable designs, and it was hard to choose just one. However, C-Haven only needs one mascot, so inevitably someone had to win!

A mascot character design for Homeless OC Project's contest! The Homeless OC Project's aim to make C-Haven the leading character database on the web. So if this is something that interests you, maybe you ought to check it out and support it!

No name yet! I went for a sky-themed cat character for this design and, at one point, he was a lankier fellow until I decided to go against my habit of drawing tall characters and stick with the smaller, stocky look I started off with and the contest asked for cute designs! And because everything is better when it's kawaii-sized, right? 

I also gave him a floating top hat because why not?

This is going to be the last reminder I make, guys. You now have three days to get in those entries. So far we haven't received any, so if you attempted to send me one, I didn't get it, so you'll have to check your spelling and resend.

Hey guys, remember us?

It's been some time since we last made any sort of announcement, and this is due to various reasons. First of all, we've been waiting on the mascot contest to give us a face for our campaign, but as of yet we haven't received any entries and that's really discouraging! The whole mission of C-Haven is to create a website built by users around the needs of users, but it seems the initial steam around this project has deflated, and we aren't sure how to get that back!

Secondly, there isn't much we can do until we launch the campaign for funding, since this will be an entirely donations-based project. The problem with that is, as said above, we need things like a logo, a mascot, and an official design before we can create merchandise as fundraising incentives. So its a bit of a rock and a hard place.

For that reason, we may end up cancelling the mascot contest and going another route. Inevitably, we'll be pulling money out of our own pockets, but here's where there is a problem with that. We don't want to invest in something people aren't interested in, because if we put money into this and then we can't raise the funds to actually do it, it'll just have been a waste, you know?

So if you guys are still interested in seeing us create a character database with unlimited characters, a huge character image gallery, an intuitive UI and user-based community, and countless new and exciting features that have never been seen before, please spread the word and let us know you want this! Our initial post got over 200 reblogs, but we want to see more than that. Help us keep this project going, it only takes a click!

So far, we've got some great artists who have generously offered to contribute their art to our campaign. We hope that this will not only help in raising awareness about our project, but also help in raising the funds for it. The campaign will launch at the beginning of March, right as our Mascot Contest ends. This will give us time to mock up merchandise, finalize plans for the site, and prepare for the work we're in for once we have the funds and the site to work on.

If you're curious, here are the artists that will be contributing so far. If you aren't listed here, its either that I never heard back from you about a detail, or I've forgotten you. If that's the case, contact me and you'll be added here for reference purposes! Hopefully this list will get your guys' mouths watering! :P

Arley

Trilea

Fine

Kyokos

22mg

Everyone celebrate and rejoice!

Most importantly...

C-HAVEN.COM The only link that works is an example of the Profile page, all others are broken for now.

Others:

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