Being a Digital Designer: The Next Generation of Animation and Comics Design Submission (How to get your character/costume/background designs on TV)

Getting one of my designs to show up on anime art sites and on TV, manga, anime, comic books, or movies is often as simple as uploading, or “submitting” my designs to the public domain of the internet, public internet art hosting sites, where people working on TV and film animation staffs can see them and incorporate some of my design elements into their own design. You don't get credited for this kind of thing, but yes, this kind of submissions process is how it works.

The more other artists and designers at studios and on websites see your designs online and emulate them, the more influential you become.

I could go into further detail about the legal and financial hazards and complications that go with this area of design, but why ruin the secret to my success. If you want to be on top, you have to learn to take the good with the bad, and not be so possessive about your own design work. If you design a true archetype, you'll soon learn often, the truth is everyone borrows from it (your work), but no one credits you for it as the original designer. That's just how it is sometimes. You won't always get credit. But the people who see your design, even if they're the one's copying from it, will know you're the originator, as in the first one they saw produce the archetype.

But yes, the internet has created a new kind of submission process to comic book publishers and animation studios and staff artists in media storytelling. One primarily in the public domain,  that exists on a semi-honor system.