yeah, I was just being cheeky in this post.
It’s my guess that it was copied pixel for pixel. Or imported in and scaled ever so slightly.
Maybe next time we send our rough draft kind of screenshot couple pieces for proof? and then the final process? like how artist Froth (i won’t tag him here) did.
I’d like to apply for the Fan Art SWAT team now. lmao.
jokes aside, if only they would require it, and if only all participants would adhere and comply with that.
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People cheat in game and out of the game LMAO.TOS really bring out a lot of cheaters to the yard.
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Is the TP rewards got people to cheat in GVG and the Art Contest LOL.TP can corrupt a lot people these days .
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IMO, all participants who plagiarized arts in the Art Festival/Content should be banned from future Contents/Festivals (or at least for some time, like 3-6 months), so it doesn’t happen anymore.
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@BlueFlewQueen I think wendy was referenced and did all the work but not
"Love on Fire" since we even saw the original creator posting about it too but not windy’s.
honestly, all i want is a staff team that will respond to the community when art thefts pointed out.
in previous MMOs, theres been art contests- one that i entered in had a winner who stole art. the community pointed it out, the community manager noticed, and replaced the winner. even IMC said in their contest rules that if a case of plagiarism/ip theft/etc is detected, they have rights to take the prizes back.
thats all i want really, i dont mind art thieves accidentally winning as long as they get the repercussions that the staff stated they would get. it takes a level of skill to spot inconsistencies in style when it comes to traced/stolen entries, so im not gonna blame the staff for not being able to notice that it was traced/stolen. (they said themselves that they werent artists)
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staff_yuri seems to have said that all prizes will be taken away from this contest. even still though, since apparently were still not sure this is a case of plagiarism; i found another artist windysama stole from
specific example; the tree
apparently this is actual copyrighted stuff too, because captaintoog is using it to create a game… yikes
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I said it in the fanart section and I’ll say it again, promoting even a minuscule amount of thievery while punishing another will not bode well for anyone. Not for windysama, not for the artists who painstakingly worked on their authentic pieces, and not for the people who will use this “extreme referencing” in future events. There is no difference between this, and the other contestant who is having their reward stripped. This is copy and pasting another person’s work and then adding on top of it to mask what they’ve done. This isn’t a reference, this isn’t a “base.” This is someone else’s work. I strongly urge Staff to treat this case the same way, or the credibility of these contests is gone. @STAFF_Yuri
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That tree is pretty damning, it’s the EXACT same design (pixels in the same place), just with a few colors changed to make a pseudo-3D effect. That it’s copyrighted work too…
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@windysama
come offer your defense for the latest allegations
windysama will probably just claim they used it as a “base” or “close, direct” reference for their work, as they did with the others. im not interested in windysamas input, this is for the staff.
Omg, i was even going to play devil’s advocate saying that while it was “copypasta photoshop art” it had some composition and captured the theme better than some of the “well drawn”(using this as loosely as possible) works.
But this is Nick Simmons(google it,it was amazing: the day Bleach fans united to witchhunt a shitty artist) level of tracing.Holy ■■■■.
As for windy, i think they deserve some leniency, because it seems they still figuring how things work and kinda did the best they could. I think the selection process is way more at fault in this case.
windysama obviously doesnt know what plagiarism is. tsunami didnt either. but art theft is art theft, and so i’d like proper action to be taken.
a plagiarized section of a paper is plagiarized and therefore disqualified, whether or not the writer meant to plagiarize. its why we learn the boundaries of what plagiarism is.
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The leniency comes as disqualifying the art, returning the rewards, stating why, and leaving it at that.
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I don’t know… I think one clearly understood the mistake they made while the other is quite content in what they did, and will probably do again.
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Just for the lulz, both of these is from the same guy
He did black cat, which also did to loveru lol
there other character in black cat appears in to love ru also, other than yami
and offtopic w
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the two anime gifs with the same action is made by the same anime studio as well. fun fact!
even if they werent, i’d be 100% sure they both just purchased the same motion reference footage’s rights.
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Offtopic #2
For toradora & zero no tsukaima
As in this
Both is from the same studio …aka J.C.Staff
They can do whatever they want with it w
(Fun Fact: The main girl both is tsundere, and both is voiced by Kugimiya Rie)
End of offtopic
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