seems like the scam is mostly being run for stock photos, but i could imagine someone doing this with game art. hire someone to make a bunch of consistently styled sprites and tiles on commission, with the caveat that they are working as your employee and the copyright to the work they produce as part of their job will be automatically transferred to you as part of the contract (par for the course with fiverr, by the way) then upload the lot of it to oga, itch, and other places as CC-BY 3.0 (nothing less than 3 is accepted on oga) then sit back and wait for some tinkerers to make some games with it and hope they attribute wrong. seems unlikely and alot of bother, compared to taking pictures of lasagna and waiting for someone to put it on their blog.
there is a large body of work here that is cc-by 3.0, and many of the authors have allowed it to be upgraded to cc-by 4.0. BUT we can't see that under the current system, one has to contact MedicineStorm and ask her if you can upgrade licenses. a system wide upgrade for everything that was ticked with "The authors of this content agree to license it under later versions of the licenses they selected above." would be feasible i think? then what do we do about all the cc-by 3.0 stuff from 2012 made by some obscure japanese artist whose original webpage exists only on the wayback machine?
i don't know what the answer is. as an aside, the only thing i have on here that is not CC0 is this which inherited CC-BY 3.0 from this. i have no worry that surt is gonna sue me or anyone else over the use of twin dragon's head and the turtle sprite, but if surt checked twin dragons as upgradeable to later version of license, i will update rynosaur to by 4. problem is, this is just one derivative work by one frankenspriter, among thousands of great cc-by 3 artwork made by real artists. how do we fix this? is it even fixable?
again, sounds like a good argument for CC0 to me. attribution is nice, and everyone deserves credit for their work. but i personally would rather my work have more utility and be more free in exchange for not demanding credit.
i lean towards pure coincidence, but only out of feeling, not out of any evidence. it is possible that there is some common inspirational ancestor to both of them? interesting find, without a doubt.
edit: i read the gist of the plot from the wikipedia article, and the "girl gets sucked into her video game world after dying" plot basis is very cool and resonates with me somehow. but anime is not my thing, so i doubt i will ever consume this.
basically sara is a blank template. a female caucasian (usually a spellcaster) with blond hair and a blue-ish color scheme. and sara normally has flowing hair, not a ponytail.
make her ponytail red, give her brown skin and a green color scheme, and call her Kara.
although now that i look at her again, i have no idea how she is supposed to pull the trigger the way she is holding the gunstock.
nice. i have been looking for a decent humanoid base that is cc0, so my derivative works could be released as cc0 as well.
i will second MedicineStorm's request for pngs, even though commander did it already in comments, adding the png will make it useful for those who don't use aseprite or libresprite.
go ahead and lock it MedicineStorm. i see no positive from keeping this thread open.
i am sorry that i told that person to commit suicide. i get passionate in speaking out against what i see as bigoted behavior and language.
just lock it, and let's leave it at that. noone was participating in this challenge anyways. :)
and EDIT: all this was ever meant to be was an open-ended community challenge, intentionally wording it in a way that would both not offend AND welcome any individual person's definition of femaleness. that includes ephesians "biological" definition. i never wanted this to be about policy or the administration of policiy (ie politics) or the relative merits of gender identity / reproductive social roles.
i just wanted to see some kick-butt female protagonists. if i had wanted to edit my original post i would have fixed my typo in the word "sexiist" ;)
i will not post again in this thread if it is left open, nor participate in this now "politicised" discussion.
again i am sorry to have participated in flaming ephesians with invitations for them to commit suicide. that was impolite to say the least, and hateful if taken literally. don't kill yourself ephesians. please stay alive.
sounds like a good argument for CC0 to me.
seems like the scam is mostly being run for stock photos, but i could imagine someone doing this with game art. hire someone to make a bunch of consistently styled sprites and tiles on commission, with the caveat that they are working as your employee and the copyright to the work they produce as part of their job will be automatically transferred to you as part of the contract (par for the course with fiverr, by the way) then upload the lot of it to oga, itch, and other places as CC-BY 3.0 (nothing less than 3 is accepted on oga) then sit back and wait for some tinkerers to make some games with it and hope they attribute wrong. seems unlikely and alot of bother, compared to taking pictures of lasagna and waiting for someone to put it on their blog.
there is a large body of work here that is cc-by 3.0, and many of the authors have allowed it to be upgraded to cc-by 4.0. BUT we can't see that under the current system, one has to contact MedicineStorm and ask her if you can upgrade licenses. a system wide upgrade for everything that was ticked with "The authors of this content agree to license it under later versions of the licenses they selected above." would be feasible i think? then what do we do about all the cc-by 3.0 stuff from 2012 made by some obscure japanese artist whose original webpage exists only on the wayback machine?
i don't know what the answer is. as an aside, the only thing i have on here that is not CC0 is this which inherited CC-BY 3.0 from this. i have no worry that surt is gonna sue me or anyone else over the use of twin dragon's head and the turtle sprite, but if surt checked twin dragons as upgradeable to later version of license, i will update rynosaur to by 4. problem is, this is just one derivative work by one frankenspriter, among thousands of great cc-by 3 artwork made by real artists. how do we fix this? is it even fixable?
again, sounds like a good argument for CC0 to me. attribution is nice, and everyone deserves credit for their work. but i personally would rather my work have more utility and be more free in exchange for not demanding credit.
the site is correct. mp3s are the devil.
This is pretty cool. I particularly like the beholder-inspired-but-clearly-not-the-beholder
major metal slug vibe. i love it!
it's gonna be based on this prototype
i lean towards pure coincidence, but only out of feeling, not out of any evidence. it is possible that there is some common inspirational ancestor to both of them? interesting find, without a doubt.
edit: i read the gist of the plot from the wikipedia article, and the "girl gets sucked into her video game world after dying" plot basis is very cool and resonates with me somehow. but anime is not my thing, so i doubt i will ever consume this.
basically sara is a blank template. a female caucasian (usually a spellcaster) with blond hair and a blue-ish color scheme. and sara normally has flowing hair, not a ponytail.
make her ponytail red, give her brown skin and a green color scheme, and call her Kara.
although now that i look at her again, i have no idea how she is supposed to pull the trigger the way she is holding the gunstock.
i recommend cleaning up the linework a bit before you post, to maximize your art's usefulness.
nice. i have been looking for a decent humanoid base that is cc0, so my derivative works could be released as cc0 as well.
i will second MedicineStorm's request for pngs, even though commander did it already in comments, adding the png will make it useful for those who don't use aseprite or libresprite.
go ahead and lock it MedicineStorm. i see no positive from keeping this thread open.
i am sorry that i told that person to commit suicide. i get passionate in speaking out against what i see as bigoted behavior and language.
just lock it, and let's leave it at that. noone was participating in this challenge anyways. :)
and EDIT: all this was ever meant to be was an open-ended community challenge, intentionally wording it in a way that would both not offend AND welcome any individual person's definition of femaleness. that includes ephesians "biological" definition. i never wanted this to be about policy or the administration of policiy (ie politics) or the relative merits of gender identity / reproductive social roles.
i just wanted to see some kick-butt female protagonists. if i had wanted to edit my original post i would have fixed my typo in the word "sexiist" ;)
i will not post again in this thread if it is left open, nor participate in this now "politicised" discussion.
again i am sorry to have participated in flaming ephesians with invitations for them to commit suicide. that was impolite to say the least, and hateful if taken literally. don't kill yourself ephesians. please stay alive.
ragnar out
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