Using Adoptables in Comics?

[PJK]

Heyo! I've finally mustered up the courage to try my hand at making short comics, however, some of the characters I'd like to use are actually characters I "adopted" through deviantart etc (ie. bought them for my own use). Do you think this will cause some snafus when I start uploading things? I''d probably make a credits page either way, and I have no plans on making revenue off of the comics so I figured it'd be okay.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the input! I contacted all the artists in question and they were all okay with it so, no worries!

[Queashnd]

Uhm correct me if i'm wrong but I think once you adopt adoptables (specially buying them),you can mostly use them for whatever purpose so I guess you can use them?Unless of course the maker says it needs credits or something like that,i think drawing comics with your adopts in it is pretty cool and okay * ' v ')/)

[PJK]

Ooh thank you for replying so fast! I'll just post the credits thing when I make them (if they require credits) and just not worry about it otherwise!

[puppetbomb]

Ask the original artist first.

I don't think they'll have too much of a problem as long as you detail out that you will not be generating any profit from them (unless you're on the Ad Revenue program. Then you'll want to mention that).

If you're in the US, this can come in handy: https://www.rocketlawyer.com/document/license-agreement.rl

Another option is to buy all the rights to the character, which I believe this is out of the norm for many people who make adoptables.

Unlike a commission, you are buying the right to use this character for anything you wish. Which means ONLY YOU are allowed to seek legal action against anyone else using that character. ONLY YOU are allowed to legally create merchandise in this character's likeness. ONLY YOU can legally grant permission to anyone else who wants to use your character in some shape or form.

(If the character design is used as a palette-swap adoptable, the artist will not be able to use recolors of that design for profit anymore, as recolors infringe on copyrights.)

I believe $300 would be the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM you can offer when buying rights to a design/character (like a simple chibi. Regular proportions would be $500+). And even then I feel like you need to pay some more :/

[AlkseeyaKC]

Like someone said, Ask the creator.

I've been tempted to buy a few my self (because I suck at making female characters), I have a friend that makes them and told her I thought about buying one or two in the past to use for a comic but I didn't have the money to spend and not sure how it works having a character they made in my comic. like what happens if the comic happened to become huge success and lots of merch of this character and so on. But yet they get nothing of that? Or would the original creator get mad at me for it? Its all a bunch of "What Ifs" but something I would want to consider in the small chance it did happen.

Despite all that, my friend said she would be honored if I did a comic with one of her adoptables. lol

[PJK]

I'm going to ask them as you suggested. Also considering your and @AlkseeyaKC 's points I think that I will just limit myself to the two or three characters I liked the most and then build the rest up from scratch like usual. Thank for the imput!

[PJK]

Yeah there is a whole bunch of questions that need to be considered that you don't think of at first. I've already taken the steps to asking the creators of the three I'm super attached to (one of them being my mascot that was given to me as a gift). The rest I'll just replace with characters I created myself.

[SpavVy]

Ask them before you use it! Even though you bought the character it is still their creation and I think crediting them would be a good thing too.