AC Image Pack Character Poll Selection Explanation

Hello! Here's a quick rundown on how the characters were chosen, not because I feel like I need to explain myself, but because maybe someone might find this interesting. I was gonna include this in the poll post but it was too much rambling so I decided to make it a separate post.

You guys gave me a lot of good suggestions, so to trim it down to just 20 characters, I had to cut a lot of chracters based on one rule: one character per species. So for example a lot of eagles had to be cut down because basically everyone suggested at least one eagle. To choose which character would rule over their species, I chose based on:

• Characters that several people suggested.
• Characters that would be easier to come up with ideas for.
• Characters with interesting designs.
• Characters I personally really like.
• Some Twitter polls for when I really couldn't choose (if you follow me on Twitter you know what I'm talking about).

I had to make some compromises, for example one of the last ones I picked was Coach, because there were 3 different bulls suggested, so choosing one of them instead of a character from a species with only one suggestion (Hamsters, Birds Elephants, etc.) felt like a good compromise. Or how I went with Bud instead of Mott for lions, because even though I love Mott, Bud seems like it would be more interesting to draw.

I also tried to make it so that everyone had at least one of their suggestions picked, but based on the one character per species rule that became a little impossible so, sorry guys...

Also originally the selection was going to be 10 NPCs and 10 Villagers, but since there were so many good selection for the villagers I chose to cut out some NPCs (sorry, Blathers and Digby). Also, giving Booker and Copper different slots didn't feel right.

One last thing: Unlike the other Image Packs, where the bonus illustrations featured select "losers" that didn't make the cut in the poll, I have already chosen the characters that will be featured in the bonuses. This is not only because these characters not only really stood out from the rest, but they shared something in common and I really wanted to include them no matter what.

Either way, this was just the selection for the poll, you still gotta vote for the characters that will make the cut. So if you haven't, please go vote on the Poll post!