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"Funny" story about a big creator claiming my desing as their own
🕑 Added 2023-06-28 17:38:14 +0000 UTCAbout a week ago DM studio (a big pokemon figures maker with thousands of followers) opened the preorders for the figure in the photo.
As you can see the Haunter is completely identical to the the one I made in the past (here the link STL file Haunter pokemon 3D print modelă»Design to download and 3D printă»Cults (cults3d.com) ) the cool part is that reselling physical copies of my design is allowed and there is only to pay 2$ per month (while most creators charge 5 to 20$) but also they are claiming it like their original work! while it's obvious from the release date of mine that it does not belongs to them lol. If they designed their own with a similar pose it would be good, but this is literally 1:1, some details like cracks, the hands... they are literally identical XD
I'm doubtful about gastly's face too since it has the same pose of mine, but it's a pretty simple geometry so it's possibile that they did it from 0... and they did a better job with the "ghost fire", good for them.
That figure also have 2 gengar in different poses and one of them is ripped 1:1 from the pokedex studio design... that one also claimed as their own original lol
I wanted to report this since it's a bit hilarious to me that a big studio with those numebers of follower turns out being full of plagiarism from creators with less than 200 followers...
BTW, I always try to make the best of bad situations. So let's say that, as a new creator, this is a huge confirmation that what I'm doing is good or at least I'm going in the right direction in terms of ideas/design :)
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I was looking at this one https://i.etsystatic.com/38341027/r/il/2faa6a/4311578839/il_1140xN.4311578839_ah12.jpg but yeah, doesn't really matter, I didn't want to make too much controversy on them... just to leave a report of the situation
The Gengar looks like this... https://files.cults3d.com/uploaders/13879998/illustration-file/0aea68e5-991c-4961-b5bd-70b1a499a6cf/mmexport1591174864884_530x%402x.jpg
Thank you :D
Man, I'm so sorry. That's blatant theft. I will say though, that Haunter is indeed one of my favorites of yours, I painted one a couple weeks ago, and it is incredible. So you're doing great work! I'm sorry people think stealing from creators is ok!
