Pokemon card art should be less on model, stop this boring shit
Popular Pokemon TCG Artist Accused of Tracing Fan Art for Upcoming Pocket Set
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"The pose is generic and can be easily replicated by mistake."
- A lot of people defending this have never drawn a day in their life let alone regularly and it painfully shows. As an artist/animator I'll just say it's painstaking to DELIBERATELY hand draw something as identical as it is lol.
"It doesn't matter either way as all fanart is legally owned by Pokemon."
- Thanks for the compassion and sympathy towards an artist who isn't even wanting to make a big deal out of it other than point out a potential blunder. They're a fan of the artist's work and just confused, imagine your "heroes" just copied your work one day.
- A lot of people defending this have never drawn a day in their life let alone regularly and it painfully shows. As an artist/animator I'll just say it's painstaking to DELIBERATELY hand draw something as identical as it is lol.
"It doesn't matter either way as all fanart is legally owned by Pokemon."
- Thanks for the compassion and sympathy towards an artist who isn't even wanting to make a big deal out of it other than point out a potential blunder. They're a fan of the artist's work and just confused, imagine your "heroes" just copied your work one day.
As an artist this brings me back to one concern I had on my mind with how often Pocket has been releasing new sets. They certainly have plenty of artists to commission from but I wonder if their set production timeline is more condensed than the regular tcg and has artists rushing to complete works that would normally be allowed more time to complete.
As an artist I’d honestly be devastated by this, yeah it would be sick to technically have your art in the tcg, but you have to remember that SIE is getting all the credit for it. People might spread the word and talk about it, but your everyday tcg pocket player will just take it at face value. I could even see people further down the line thinking that the ORIGINAL is traced from the card. Not to mention all the time that the artist put into that work and is not getting paid for. Its straight up theft. I’m hoping something gets done about this asap for the artists sake.
Yeah, this was on a discord is frequent, I'll reserve judgement until both images have high quality digital scans to compare. What's out there atm is not enough to fully conclude with my own eyes.
But it isn't? The only similarities it shares with other Ho-oh art is his wings are always spread. But there's a lot of different angles, positions of the wings being bent, going up or down, or even the mouth being open.
Both are these artworks are put on top of each other and you can see it's an identical copy of the linework.
I highly doubt that. It's one thing to have some of your work shown off and speak to them to ask for credit. But in this case they're going to get paid a lot for the "work" they've done and it looks like a carbon copy apart from the shading.
Very very close! The perferations/breaks in feathers on the wings is nearly identical.
Briefly checked Twitter to see if there were any updates from the original artist and people were ALREADY thinking the og artist was the one who copied. Not that Twitter is exactly an intellectual place to be, but still. Really sad and I hope there’s some kind of magical explanation :/
Pocket only has original art for the 1 star and above cards, so while they release sets often it's not like every artist is being commissioned for every set. Having to rush to meet a deadline definitely seems like the most likely reason for this though, and it happened in Marvel Snap at least once before with a very prominent artist too.
I am by no means saying that those things make sense. But people do really strange things sometimes
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This is either a stolen trace of lanjiujiu's artwork, or an example of AI generation accidentally spitting out an unaltered image that its been trained on, and SIE NANAHARA using this as the base line art for their work. It certainly wouldn't be the first time I've been suspicious of AI making its way onto Pocket card art. But no matter how it happened, this should be the highest shame on SIE NANAHARA.
READ THIS. I saw someone on twitter point out that a bootleg figure company made this artwork into a figure years ago. He just traced the figure after, more likely than not, googling something. Still not cool but it's just a figure, I doubt this artist traced from the art itself.
The bootleg figure thing has already been disproven. The pocket art is an exact trace of the original art. People have lined up both arts and it's basically an exact match. This means the artist DID trace the original art because there's simply no universe in which they line up so perfectly otherwise.
Honestly the hoops that people are jumping through to justify this plagiarism is sad but not surprising. Is it just because we all love pokemon so much that we don't want to believe this actually happened? I remember some on here trying to make excuses for the guy who submitted AI art to the contest a while ago. He was then disqualified and replaced with actual artists. Sometimes things are as simple as they seem.
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This has nothing to do with the color. You can copy/trace a drawing and color it differently, while still being plagiarism.
If I open a coffee shop and use Dunkin' Donuts logo, but change the color, I would still be plagiarizing their logo. Color doesn't change that I stole it from them.
Take it from someone with experience, Pokemon Fan Art, is 100% owned by Pokemon, and they can take any of it, and use it any way they see fit, and they 100% do not have to nor will they give the original artist any credit. Because they don't have too, it is their intellectual property.. they own it.
KEEP A. I. OUT OF CREATIVE SPACES BABYYY
