OC Foundry started with a simple question: what if getting stuck creatively was the fun part?
Artists, writers, and worldbuilders all know that feeling. You want to create, but the blank page won't cooperate. You reach for a character, and they arrive vaguely, or half-formed, or too much like the last one you drew. What you actually need is a friend who says: "here, try this one."
That's what OC Foundry is trying to be. A small, warm studio that hands you a fully-formed idea when you need one. Not to replace your creativity, but to spark it.
How it works
Every generated character comes from carefully written pools of world-building, personality traits, visual descriptions, and story hooks. You pick a world (fantasy, modern, sci-fi, and more) and a mood, and we do the rest. Each character is a starting point, not an ending. Take what you love, change what you don't, and make them yours.
The full character bible
For creators who fall in love with a character and want to go deeper, we offer a complete Character Bible PDF for £0.60. It includes the full backstory, wardrobe breakdown across three occasions, voice patterns with dialogue samples, a relationship web with three key people, personal symbols and motifs, five drawing prompts, and quick questions to reveal even more of who they are. It's the kind of reference document that turns a character sketch into a whole world.
Who this is for
Anyone whose creative work involves people: illustrators, comic artists, tabletop players and game masters, novelists, fanfic writers, animators, fashion designers who dress fictional muses, worldbuilders. If you make things with characters in them, we made this for you.
Made with care
OC Foundry is a small independent project. We don't collect personal data beyond what's needed for payments. We don't sell anything to advertisers. We just make characters. Every purchase helps us keep the site running and the character pools growing.
Thanks for being here. Now go make someone worth drawing. ✦