I've noticed that some of the most popular furry stuff online right now is the hand-drawn, frame-by-frame 2D porn. I've thought about making animations like these in the future as a hobby, but everyone else wants to charge money for their stuff because they rely on furry for income. Would I be putting myself in danger for wanting to do this?

Danger?

Doomguy666 said:
Danger?

Some animators have deleted their work because they wanted to get actual jobs and didn't want to leave any "evidence." That's what I meant by danger.

ShawnaCallums said:
Some animators have deleted their work because they wanted to get actual jobs and didn't want to leave any "evidence." That's what I meant by danger.

ah, are you planning on getting an actual job? Either was I'd say do whatever you want and have fun with it.

ShawnaCallums said:
Some animators have deleted their work because they wanted to get actual jobs and didn't want to leave any "evidence." That's what I meant by danger.

"you drew a penis 9.5 years ago and were blackballed FUREVAR!!!"

ShawnaCallums said:
I've noticed that some of the most popular furry stuff online right now is the hand-drawn, frame-by-frame 2D porn. I've thought about making animations like these in the future as a hobby, but everyone else wants to charge money for their stuff because they rely on furry for income. Would I be putting myself in danger for wanting to do this?

If you're worried about any future jobs not hiring you because of having drawn porn in the past, use a pseudonym for your porn art and keep it separate from your legal name.

InannaEloah said:
If you're worried about any future jobs not hiring you because of having drawn porn in the past, use a pseudonym for your porn art and keep it separate from your legal name.

I made sure to do that the moment I started drawing my art.

Thanks for all the feedback, btw. Figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to check with more active furs before I actually did something.

That depends. If you use your real name as your artist name and you get popular, your porn is going to be the first thing that will pop up when they perform background checks when considering you for the job you are applying for.

TheHuskyK9 said:
That depends. If you use your real name as your artist name and you get popular, your porn is going to be the first thing that will pop up when they perform background checks when considering you for the job you are applying for.

Wait, what? Even if you leave no trace that it's you who makes animations (or any porn for that matter), they'll still show up in a background check?

InannaEloah said:
If you're worried about any future jobs not hiring you because of having drawn porn in the past, use a pseudonym for your porn art and keep it separate from your legal name.

People actually use their real name on porn sites? Today I learnt something.

TheKatYouNeverWanted said:

People actually use their real name on porn sites? Today I learnt something.

This is just going off observation, but many pre-Internet furries used their real name on their works. They probably didn't expect the fandom to blow up like it did in the last 20 years or so.

TheKatYouNeverWanted said:
People actually use their real name on porn sites? Today I learnt something.

Some do or have their name deeply attached to their nickname, I guess most known one is Adam Wan also known as Zaush. However another common thing I have seen is furries using same nickname all over the internet, including stuff like steam and facebook, meaning their online identity is behind that single nickname. If you did art with that nickname, well, to the next point:

TheKatYouNeverWanted said:
Wait, what? Even if you leave no trace that it's you who makes animations (or any porn for that matter), they'll still show up in a background check?

At that point, of course not, but if you do get popular and have links between your semi-anonymous work and yourself, they might start to popup, considering how absurdly efficient search engines, especially google has become. It has essentially become a robot which can guess what you are trying to search, that's why my regular internet nickname does show up pretty often if you search my real name.

I'm pretty sure drawing furry stuff will only hurt getting your job if you are going to some graphics area or job where your name and reputation matters, e.g. your name will be shown to customers.

I guess bigger worry is about putting time and effort into creating such animations. Of course if you do put genitals in it will get upvoted and liked regardless, but actually making quality work will take lot of time to first learn and then actually do. If it's about money, that's why many have started tweening.

TheKatYouNeverWanted said:
People actually use their real name on porn sites? Today I learnt something.

A couple I can think of off the top of my head were Foxxfire and Zaush. They both used to sign their legal names on their art. A lot of that older art is still pretty easy to find and it's tagged under their furry names, and they're both pretty popular artists. And unfortunately a lot of modern employers are super-prudish when it comes to hiring an artist who drew porn in their earlier years. In some cases, the artists might as well have committed a murder as to have drawn porn and put their legal names on it, because either way they'll get dropped like a hot potato.

Mario69 said:
Some do or have their name deeply attached to their nickname, I guess most known one is Adam Wan also known as Zaush.

hmmm... i wonder if that's the case with juan gotoh (aka po-ju) and... darnit, i was just thinking about this other artist too but the thought suddenly went *poof* on me. :/

well, anyway, i think po-ju was his alias for furry stuff while juan gotoh was for human stuff.

It has essentially become a robot which can guess what you are trying to search, that's why my regular internet nickname does show up pretty often if you search my real name.

o_O i haven't changed usernames in...years, if not a decade or so. unless the rare occasion this one is taken but that's uncommon. (i like originality and not some generic username with random numbers tacked onto the end.)

Many, many professionals in the industry have done porn before, both before and during their "family-friendly" careers. It isn't quite as alienating as some folk like to think.

That said, you may want to avoid cub and other fire-and-brimstone fetishes.

ShawnaCallums said:
Some animators have deleted their work because they wanted to get actual jobs and didn't want to leave any "evidence." That's what I meant by danger.

While I can see why people may do that. Honestly, who cares if they drew porn! As long as you did well at the job, I wouldn't have a problem with that.

But hey, this world is stupid!