Character Design

Freddy Fazbear

"Freddy is friendly" is what you should strive for when designing your own take on Freddy Fazbear. The plump cheeks, wide teeth, that nose that invites you to honk it. They're cute bulbous features that take on a different turn when it gets dark. Suddenly the round features of Freddy allows deeper shadows to form. The sunken-in eyes, the black rings previously giving him a sassy quality, now show how deep of a silent predator Freddy is.

The Freddy I designed still gives him those round features. His now-monobrow has been exuted forwards to both make him more silly and cast a huge shadow over him to make his expression unreadable. I wouldn't go mess with him.

Bonnie the Rabbit

In body shape, Bonnie is very similar to Freddy. This changes with the head shape where it's a lot more horizontally squished. His pinhead-like shape and covered eyes are to give him a more unassuming quality; during shows he lifts up his brow when surprised as a joke. Of course, at night the exposed eyes are used for horror, making it the only visible thing on Bonnie's face while cloaked in darkness.

The guitar's in the shape of rabbit ears.

Chica the Chicken

Chica has more of an original body build compared to Freddy and Bonnie's so I gave her one here. The extra feathers on her collar helps separate it from the body more, making her resemble shrunken heads--severed heads practiced in some religions to give these designs a more "urban superstition" feeling, back when only FNaF1 was out and nobody knew if the animatronics were haunted or not.

The cupcake looked like a nerd to me, so I gave him more nerd qualities. The red glasses helps tie together a piece of laminated paper which circles around inside the "cupcake base" which shows a variety of emotions in the Cupcake's eyes.

Foxy the Pirate

Scruffy. Scruffy everywhere. There's so much loose fur flowing around Foxy he's like a reclused furball. The amount of whiskers he were supposed to have now turned to resemble a deviously downwards-casted moustache. His endoskeleton has also reddened with rust to keep his red color scheme intact.

I don't have much to say about him other than that.

Yellow Bear

He stands! (Or you can just let him sit.) My FNaF1 designs were purely hinging on shadows, so here we have the hallucinated culmination of that: someone whose face you can't even fully see. Who knows if I even drew him screaming or not--you'll never get the answer out of me!

Toy Freddy

Fat

In all seriousness, the Toys were based on Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas and some other artwork made by Tim Burton. Like Tim Burton, the designs were meant to be somewhat counter-culture at the time but were absorbed to be just another cog in capitalism.

I designed Toy Freddy to be some kind of mayor.

Toy Bonnie

Speaking of The Nightmare Before Christmas, the AU I created here is surrounded by the theme of the negatives of media. With Nightmare, Tim Burton was only involved for like 10 days of production while Henry Selick carried its entire production, and yet his name is not in marketing, but Tim Burton's because he's the more profitable person.

I'd speak about my own personal experiences about praise being placed on the wrong person, but this text box is getting crammy.

Toy Chica

1980s unhealthy body standards ahoy. Toy Chica looks completely malnourished and resembles a naked Barbie doll. I'd imagine Fazbear Entertainment would've written her to "faint" during performances due to malnourishment, but she justifies herself because she "loves her body" and continues promoting unhealthy fasting to all the impressionable young girls in the audience.

This is quite the weird soapbox to start talking on, but please take care of your body.

The Mangle

Foreign panic ahoy. Toy Foxy here is meant to be a "trickster effeminate foreigner" because what was, and still is, rampant are Americans fearing outsiders. The markings on his body, just a sloppy cursory glance at foreign culture, has the Freddy Fanbase headcanon Toy Foxy's a trans male. This was strictly denied by Fazbear Entertainment, but they leaned into it when it became profitable to do so.

Because the Toys are made out of some bendy plastic, the kids pulling him apart didn't quite rip him apart, but rather stretched him out into this blobby mess inspired by the Dog-Thing from The Thing.

BB

That's just Carson Dellosa Education.

Honestly, what better way to make a design off of a character you're meant to hate than to activate one of their deep subconscious venom towards the Carson Dellosa posters they've seen around their schools.

Think of these balloon statues as being rented out from another company. They don't fit the style of the other Toys. I'd hate to be the soul possessing one of these statues.

JJ

They made a pink one. These statues must be mass-produced, but only colored differently and arbitrarily adding eyelashes or not. Have a fun time imagining what DD's color scheme might be, or XOR.

Hell, imagine a whole army of these disposable balloon statues. CC, TT, KK, GG, you name it. Imagine they give one sunglasses and called him JZ. Imagine the horrible television specials...

The Marionette

Logical thought-through if you look at what I based the Toys on. Of course, Puppetman here is meant to exist all the way back during Fredbear's, so there's some chipping on the stripes to show his age and some classic segmenting on the limbs.

Withered Freddy

Withered Freddy looks the least damaged out of the Withereds. Nothing much to change about him unfortunately.

Withered Bonnie

I sure do love hatching though, and drawing unkempt fur. Makes them look more feral that way.

Withered Chica

Wanted to give her mouth more of a silhouette, which is why I emptied out most of the back of her throat. She also looks more like a scarecrow the way the loose fur hands on her arms.

Withered Foxy

Looks like a children's book character. I frayed out his fur wildly outside so make his eyes more visible. His mechanic in-game is being blinded by the flashlight, so I made sure to give those pinprick eyes visible under a dark swatch of fur, where he now looks like a light-absorbing spot.

I really like what I did with the guy.

Golden Freddy

Nothing much to comment on really. I just made his colors more bleaker to give it a more "urban haunted" feeling rather than something colorfully sci-fi haunted, if you understand what I mean.

Shadow Freddy

I like the purple highlights I drew on him here. His whole design hinges on his highlights.

I drew Shadow Freddy and Bonnie together actually to highlight certain things. Most importantly, Shadow Freddy actually had a shadow underneath him to give off the impression that he's more "formed" than Shadow Bonnie. Does that mean he's older than him? What doooeees he represent? Perhaps I should tell you...

Shadow Bonnie

Shadow Bonnie's simply a silhouette of Toy Bonnie. A silhouette with no form means he can stretch and express himself in any which way if you couldn't tell by the wild way I drew his face here. Crazy. Insane. Bodies strewn around the floor.

Springtrap

William Afton's ego is expressed in Springtrap. He's won over death, and yet in so much pain as a result. In this design, the Spring Bonnie costume he's wearing moreso resembles a royal robe to further sink in his delusions of grandeur. He's able to hide himself inside the rotting costume, simply unrecognizable for anyone insane enough to bring him to an attraction.

He's a King in Yellow essentially.

Phantom BB

Loose and scratchy lineart's fun. BB was the first Phantom I started because I wanted to see how I could make the design I made for BB threatening. A lot of familiarity is based on the face, so taking that away and replacing it with a pair of disjointed human eyes were appropriate enough.

Thanks to him, I now have a consistent style guide for the other Phantoms.

Phantom Mangle

This design was based on a deleted scene and concept art from Shin Godzilla where bits of Godzilla's flesh were regrowing into some growing wall of eyes and other assorted organs and juices. Quite the haunting concept.

When you're dealing with designs based on hallucinations, the sky's the limit in how you want to delve into the psyche of the playable character. I want the Phone Dude to be right when he said you'd "see some crazy stuff."

Phantom Chica

Based on Golden Freddy's floating head, Phantom Chica's head could only been senn through the arcade machine, so perhaps that's the only thing the player would've hallucinated.

If you checked the Timeline page before, you'd see that FNaF1 Chica's decorative eyes would often fall off, giving her an eyeless look akin to Toy Chica. I wanted the Phantoms be a combination of exaggerated experiences that the FNaF3 night guard went through previously.

Phantom Freddy

My least favorite Phantom because of how simple it is, both in design and mechanic. Can't say much more beyond that, sorry.

Phantom Foxy

Looks more like a banshee than a fox at this point. His frayed-out appearance has expanded wildly and now he looks like a black hole. You can even see the spiral in his clothes. Wild character to randomly see in your office wehn you turn left.

Phantom Puppet

Chaved moron. Despite the lack of tearstreams, this one looks the most like he's on the verge of crying. I think he would actually cry in, like, his mechanic in KFNaF3 if it were a real game. Ha, ha.

Nightmare Freddy

What is seen in shadows is easily misunderstood in the mind of a child, and that goes doubly so for the Nightmares. They're large bipedal animal-likes who are eternally cloaked in darkness. Try and put a light on them--they'll absorb it.

His Freddles squish themselves out of Nightmare Freddy. He only looks like a bear.

Nightmare Bonnie

A feral hare. If you can imagine alongside me, you may see this rabbit use the shadows to shift and form himself into a more monstrous form. Suddenly, the muted colors on the walls suddenly merge with him, creating a hulking form you yourself don't know where it ends.

Nightmare Chica

A mix between a chicken and a shoebill. If I just made a giant chicken, that wouldn't be scary.

Turns out all the Nightmares have a little cupcake inside them, a monochrome one, one which emits a white flame that lights everything up to be white. Better hope it doesn't do anything drastic.

Did you know it's very difficult to make a cupcake scary?

Nightmare Foxy

I wish his long tongue in the teasers were kept. It really added to his "creeper in the closet" nature. I get it was difficult to animate it, yea yea

Ah well. Hopefully seeing this real fox with an unnaturally tall tongue creates enough of an uncanny valley effect that it's scary.

Nightmare Fredbear

You think I went overboard on him? Mmm, perhaps, but it's appropriately bulky if you're a terrified child in this nightmare you're having. It really brings to mind parental abuse.

I wasn't abused, if you're worried.

Nightmare

*Killing Moon starts playing*

Oh god fuck

Plushtrap

Just keeping him in-line with the other Nightmares.

Jack-o-Bonnie

The White Cupcake inside has flared up and has exposed the rabbit's skull in a piercing white inferno. I wanted to give the Jack-o's a sign of continuity rather than some kind of festive theming. The other Nightmares didn't go through a festive theming, so it was weird that only Bonnie and Chica got one.

Jack-o-Chica

Same deal. No pumpkin for her, unfortunately.

Nightmare Mangle

Wrapped around in stripes, this was my favorite Nightmare design to do. Alongside the original Dog-Thing inspiration, she's also based on ratatouille funnily enough. The dish, not the movie.

Nightmarionne

Looks like a real lanky creeper. This one's based on Evangelion Unit 01's Berserk Mode, more specifically the scene of it devouring Zeruel.

Nightmare BB

A child. Sorry player, in this nightmare you're the smaller child.

Fredbear

Wow, we've arrived at Fredbear now. As you can see, Fredbear functions as both a Portrait and Walkable animatronic, easily able to be removed/attached via the pins on the bottom half

I did not intend for those pins to be the explanation behind the stomach teeth that the Nightmares have. That was a divine-level coincidence, but it works so goddamn well.

Spring Bonnie

She's actually called Bellonny Bonbon in this AU as it wouldn't make sense to keep the "Spring" part of the name. No springlocks.

I actually designed her off of someone, I just don't remember who anymore. Besides that, if you remove her vest it removes all the pressure that makes her look like she's got hips and turns the body more androgynous. Much more preferrable for William Afton--he would not have liked "looking like a fruit" in his words.

Circus Baby

Circus Baby was created to capture children. Giving her a larger baby-like belly would create that storage. Hey, you can even see I gave her stomach some large orange lips, and that blue fan looks a bit like a cyclops eye. It gives her a mimic quality (the monster, not the character) while still making her look pretty goofy.

Ballora

William's freaky as hell, no wonder someone came up with the Adult Theory if they tunnel-visioned Ballora and only Ballora. She's literally just wearing nipple covers, she's the nakedest nakie there.

Since my lore has the Funtimes be built long after Baby, they've taken some design cues off of her. A more jestery approach. Ballora's wearing a large collar to hide her chest for instance here, gave her a fluffy night cap, some asymmetrical pants and gloves, and some large ears.

It's smooth under that thing, if you're asking.

Funtime Freddy

Rather than the dark shadows coming in naturally, the shadows are painted on Funtime Freddy and Foxy instead. It helps give them less of an organic feeling and more artificial. You can remove Bon-Bon on him too and reveal that he's got no ears either. Sure, his name's Freddy, but he's completely white, no ears, painted black to simulate shadows. He's a very in-name guy.

Funtime Foxy

A combination between traditional Japanese wear and a harlequin. Basically just an extension of Toy Foxy/Mangle.

The kitsune mask is meant to be a part of Funtime Foxy. Removing it reveals simply an earless black head, once again just a painted-on shadow.

Hope you know your Japanese to know that's not the right way to wear a kimono and what it implies.

Ennard

An abstract parasitic nervous system that coils around the bones of Michael Afton. The "claw" of its head just clamps down around Michael's brain so it can send controlled shocks around the brain so it can move. Definitely not sustainable in the long run.

The clown mask is based on Bassie from Bassie & Adriaan, a clown/acrobat duo in my country.

Bidybab

Welcome to the hyperstylized world of KFNaF where string-like limbs can hold up wood-looking animatronics. They're not actually made of wood though, it just looks like that to keep the illusion up of the cast's jester-like appearances.

They're also red to tie them with Circus Baby. In hindsight I could've designed them far better, but I'm currently the messager with showing you these designs, not the message.

Electrobab

Orange because electricity

Minireena

Blue because Ballora, and circular because of their lean movements. These look far more like the study dolls the Minireenas are based on. Again, see my closing thoughts with the Bidybabs.

Lolbit

Funtime Foxy's pallet swap. My process behind the design is just to change the hues of Foxy and make sure it doesn't breach the 2-color scheme I made with the other Funtimes. Good thing the base game gave Lolbit a real stand-out color scheme--nothing had to be changed.

Lefty

Shocking your daughter to keep her inside the animatronic? Heck's wrong with you?

This is basically a straightjacket to represent that. The teeth acting like bars and the chaotic lineart simply showing how insane of a cage this is.

Scrap Baby

What a busy looking design. Wires and wear and tear, it's no wonder the FFPS cast get the most fan redesigns. If you couldn't tell, my FFPS designs will be taking a more angular style.

Since she tried to rebuild herself out of scrap, I made her more bulky while still giving her a more lean look for her rollerskates. Her gothy teen look is actually based on the music video of No Scrubs by TLC, which you can see with her midriff and ponytail wrap. There's a lot of teen fashion if you look closely, like her rusty choker and darkening nails. I really like what I did to her.

Molten Freddy

That's a demon slug lol

Since Freddy's the head honcho here, he's tried creating a makeshift Bon-Bon hat, the brim acting like his eyebrow. Hat's not sentient though, sorry.

The wires flowing or darting out of him are all angular. Again, angular style, but it helps make each wire look sentient, inorganically aware on where to crook and where to turn, all working together to not carefully touch eachother. Like a hivemind.

Afton

Arrogantly, a lot of Scraptrap designs suffer from Innovation before Learning, resulting in a lot of "just Springtrap" designs. If you want to make a good design, you should Learn what the character is before Innovating them. What I've learned is that Scraptrap is the endpoint of William Afton; he's always wanted a legacy to himself. ("I always come back!")

After rotting for decades and achieving nothing, he's returned back to how he looked before; a man wearing a suit, tattered and colored to resemble rotting skin--his legacy is built around taking the lifes of others. It's a fitting bookend to a villain who has hurt others to try and become bigger than he deserves to be only to turn to ash.

Helpy

Helpy is a fictional character to represent the player's new entrepeneur path to opening a Freddy's location. Since he would be created in the 2020s, I've designed him based on auto-pilot cartoon designs I've seen so much come from these cartoon writers.

I'm sorry but these recent design philosophies suck ass. Overly reliant on "circle = friendliness", equal line width with nothing dynamic, shading/gloss is a single line, and cat faces. This is a design I won't feel sorry for breaking his back for over and over.

Flumpty Bumpty

Genuinely what do you want me to do to an egg with a face? Adding any accessory will complicate him further, not making him an egg is ridiculous...

Well I upped his face and gave him a wider mouth to bring him closer to his Humpty Dumpty inspiration. It also makes him look more dopey in comedic contrast to when he starts killing. And no eyebrows to both simplify him further and make his actions more unreadable via facial expressions.

Popgoes the Weasel

The POPGOES animatronics are 3D-printed, meaning that every part of their body can be Reprinted if it were damaged. While cute, I decided to only have the head and internal endoskeleton be 3D printed, with the rest of the body being made soft and plump enough for kids to not bump into it and, like, get resin fume poisoning.

The doodle Bonnie made is based on chibi designs of the 2000s. Disgusting big eyes and :3 plagued that era of cuteness... Oh and I made his brown more contrasting to have him appear darker in contrast to the bright white and green.

Sara the Squirrel

You can see I made Sara's tail a more fluffier material. I feel the giant plastic weight of a tail would make her fall over, even shatter in the worst of cases.

Sara and Saffron were originally made to have a soft-sharp contrast, so I gave her design more of those qualities. Pigtails, rounder ears, the whole 9 yards. Personally I'd be pissed at my dad if he translated my OCs into animatronics and they looked like that. I totally get her. I'd also wear a Bonnie mask and trigger his trauma so he can kill me and give him an endless amount of sleepless nights.

Saffron the Squirrel

Domo... Anyway

I gave her a mohawk here both because I like how it looks, I don't like side cuts, it's angular, and it fits with the punk lifestyle. Her dress is also a a music sheet. What is it saying? Prolly the theme song--you'll have to come up with that one if you're going to adapt this design.

Candy the Cat

No waist joint? You can tell this was made in 2014...

Candy's feet always looked like endoskeleton feet painted to be blue. I gave him red boots, but it needed to be balanced out with gloves as well. Cartoons always seem to get gloves, don't they? Speaking of, FNaC1's extras menu used Tom & Jerry music, so I gave Candy some more mischievously long eyes fitting of that era of cartoons.

i'm not redesigning sugar the cat

Cindy the Cat

Since these animatronics were based on the Toy ones, I went back to what I based them on; Barbie dolls! I then gave it an original spin off of my original spin.

Nothing about Cindy's all that changed from Candy other than her Big Boob and Eyelashes. Sometimes a pallet swap is all you need in life...

Blank the Animatronic

Those negligent workers didn't bother to wash him up after being drawn on. Now the ink has seeped inside his body and now he's all hard and crusty and piercingly squeaks like styrofoam everytime he moves. That previous guard couldn't even put a dent in the guy--punched the guard with his crusty hands so hard it landed him into the flipside. What I said's not canon by the way, unless you think it's funny.

I'm glad Blank's species is "animatronic" because I could also draw a complete blank of the character. I'm sure he was destined for something greater, I dunno. Blank, my man

Ignited Freddy

His official redesign already looks phenomenal--a sickly green with dark flakes rather than regular char makes him look a lot more paranormal. The wires around him look more bumpy and uneven, resembling veins. And that's not even getting to his Inner design. But I'm getting off-track.

My design of him here, using my Freddy design, gives him a more foresty feeling, the skin around him looking more like moss than an animatronic shell. The endoskeleton inside is actually a tree-like monster, so you could compare this version of Ignited Freddy to a living scarecrow. Not sure what the remake's story will be in the future, but I used the original version where they're spirits of the forest that mimics the creations of others.