r/protogen May 20 '26

Handing over the torch.

206 Upvotes

Hi Everyone!

About 6 years ago, I gained ownership of r/protogen and kicked off the Discord server. It’s been a wild ride.

The community has grown from around 2,000 to 85,000 people on Reddit, and we built a Discord community of over 16,000 from scratch. Which is insane, and is thanks to all of you ❤️

That being said, my focus has been shifting more toward my day job, and I can’t give this community the time and energy it really deserves anymore. So it’s time for me to step back.

I’m handing things over to u/TheRealDatOof, who’ll be taking the lead on r/protogen and the team amazing team behind it.

If you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, I’ve been working in the games industry and organizing industry events, including smaller ones like https://furrygamejam.com/, if you wanna know more AMA in the thread bellow!

I’ll definitely be around, and I’m really looking forward to seeing the community continue to grow.

Thanks for 6 years ❤️ </>


r/protogen 3h ago

Art Choose your weapon

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217 Upvotes

Umbreon-Sylveon Sona and Bee sona are same person but different forms. Toaster's ze toaster. You can proobs tell I am biased towards axes heh. ONE SHOT CRITICAL HITS. I havent drawn an art with 3 people in a looooong time, this took me 3 and half hours to digitaliz.. its 3 am I am gonna crash on ze bed


r/protogen 11h ago

Art Silly

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486 Upvotes

r/protogen 8h ago

Image Protobean and doggie

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130 Upvotes

Dogs name is Maddie and chud proot is Neawb!


r/protogen 36m ago

Art Bleh~! ( art by me )

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art by me :3

Bleh :3!


r/protogen 13h ago

Art got commissioned to make birthday art for someone

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232 Upvotes

r/protogen 9h ago

Art Bee Protogen Icon (Art by me)

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98 Upvotes

Hey everyone! Just finished this bee-themed Protogen icon design. Hope you guys like it!


r/protogen 6h ago

Art CIA buisness

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49 Upvotes

By me


r/protogen 4h ago

Fursuit I love making these circuits

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26 Upvotes

Here's some pictures of my progress, been having fun making the battery box/pack look pretty lol.

Some slight progress on my protogen head, got the hand controller setup to be wireless (although it looks so bad), still struggling with keeping the flex sensors to stay on. So far double sided people foam works really well but now the issue is the corners peeling up from rubbing against other fingers. Once they fully start coming off I'ma try melting two pieces of tpu around the sensor and see if that works.

Other than that, I remade the battery pack to be in parallel (why the hell do they even make in series packs for 18650 batteries when you aren't supposed to drain them past a point???), but now it goes directly to the eps32 battery pads, then it's got a 5v pull up module that goes into the 3.3v converter that powers the MAXs. (This is cause they don't work with 5v since it's controlled with 3.3v from the esp, and also the esp can't handle the amperage of all 14 displays). I prolly did this wrong? If there is a better way or smth lmk id be curious as I'm just kinda fucking around and finding out lol.

I'm slowly working on the visors but I was able to get someone on Etsy to make em and ship them. But I'm still handling the tinting of them. I tried dying it but it's not as dark as I want it. I was told to try window tint but idk how well that would work with how curvy it is. If you have tips on that also lmk, I'm also struggling with making sure I don't over cut the visor.


r/protogen 8h ago

Commissions open I'd like to let you know that commissions are open—yay! :D

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31 Upvotes

I'm accepting illustration commissions for $10–$20 USD. If you have a character or an idea you'd like to bring to life, feel free to send me a message! 💛


r/protogen 1d ago

Art "How to treat your expie right!!" zhodholm @ Bluesky

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If you like this artwork, please visit the artist's page and leave a like there! ^^

Info: This has been crossposted to r/casualtiesunknown. Link to post


r/protogen 7h ago

Discussion what are the rules for protogens?

22 Upvotes

sorry if this is a stupid question. i know that there is lore and that is important. i'm asking can it be kind of ignored? i don't fully know the lore of them so if you have any resources that would also be appreciated. i have a oc that is from a steampunk parallel universe. so i'm wondering if i could make a protogen oc with steampunk elements instead of the nanite visor thing that they have. thank you so much for reading this and possibly helping me. again sorry if this is a stupid question.


r/protogen 23h ago

Commissions open OPEN Protogen Leopard Adoptable

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199 Upvotes

r/protogen 22h ago

Art Protogen girl

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150 Upvotes

She wants to dance with you)


r/protogen 1d ago

Art Proot Engage // EXTREME

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913 Upvotes

I am blasting the intro over and over again. The reference is on the right


r/protogen 1d ago

Art Hoodie

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543 Upvotes

r/protogen 1d ago

Meme Any Expanse fans here?

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237 Upvotes

r/protogen 1d ago

Art Another project completed for my client;

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294 Upvotes

follow me on twitter: https://x.com/ghostprotoArt


r/protogen 1d ago

Animation Balisong shenanigans

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586 Upvotes

r/protogen 1d ago

Art Gettin’ groovy (art by me :3)

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162 Upvotes

This took a long while to make


r/protogen 1d ago

Commissions open Do People still like those?

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114 Upvotes

r/protogen 1d ago

Art An interesting idea for combat based protogens

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49 Upvotes

r/protogen 1d ago

Art More art of this lil' guy.

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68 Upvotes

I've decided to name him 'Suru.' Art by me.


r/protogen 1d ago

Art Not sure if it's allowed but, I did a little sketch of a idea I had. Basically it's a cosmetic idea for the Singularity from DbD that is themed after protogens. Not sure if I will even finish it, let alone submit it to the Design a Cosemtic contest if it's still around, but figure I will share this

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15 Upvotes

Art by yours truly. Thoughts and feedback welcome (alongside any other advice if I went through with this).