Recycled characters are characters that have several changes to their names, body shape, personality and many others regardless of what they look like. They can either be passed as main, minor or background characters of their own TV Show, Movie or Video Game (no matter what company the characters can be owned by even if they are remade or not).
The one known popular 2D character named "Roger Smith" was newly 3D as of Planet 51's Skiff Xounellius rendered by the graphic designers of Ilion Animation Studios.
Sometimes, characters can be identicial or be different with their colors, models, textures and many others. Chararcters can be made by design of graphic animation or with bones.
The concept is taken to its logical extreme in the Anything Muppets, Transformers, Bakugans, Mythical Monsters, Some Aliens, Kirbys, Whatnots, Pokémon, Ben 10 Aliens, Digimon, Unisaurs, and everything else, who are endlessly recycled as different characters and frequently have changeable facial features and stuff.
The Muppet universe has more recycled characters than any other universes has. Like for an example, Snarl, the Cigar Box Frackle, was an unimportant character from The Great Santa Claus Switch, but that puppet rose to stardom when recycled as a Muppet Show performance artist named Gonzo. Similarly, the furry red puppet used for a minor Sesame Street character named Baby Monster was recycled a decade later to become the show's ultra-popular Elmo, while the Wheel-Stealer puppet used for the Wheels, Crowns and Flutes commercials was recycled into Sesame Street's famous Cookie Monster. Other universes may have recycled characters than Muppets from 2D to 3D, 3D to 2D or exactly 2D that are known re-usable characters for different movies than they originaly appear in.
Most of all, 3Ds Max, Blender and many popular 3d modeling programs can also modify characters by changing their hair model by replacing the models used on the final view. The textures can be changed by assigning the texture to the character to make them new and precise than their original game. Video games are possible to be modified as well as movie characters used for rendering and making animation. Bones of the animation used for models can animated recycled characters if they are necessary to change how they move or other animation. These may also apply to vertex painting, shaders, UV coordinates and much more.[1][2]
List of recycled characters
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Droop and Philo
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Wheel Theif
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Daphne Blake
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Tug Monster
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Sidney Cyclops
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Boo Monster
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Gleep and Fuzzyface
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Aretha
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Eckle Young
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Philo
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Tug Monster
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Snorty and Ollie
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Tug Monster
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Mordecai
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Eyegore and Sidney Cyclops
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Youknow Bird
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Little Bird
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Lenny the Lizard
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Icky No-No
