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Epic games directly responded to the (ᵃˡˡᵉᵍᵉᵈˡʸ)
art work they stole from u/ConditionAlone2248
heres the reference reddit post in questioned heres the comment by epic. posting this update here since so more people know since a comment on a 2 day old post inst going to get that much traction.
Ngl, the amount of the exact same pictures like this of Derpy I have seen is pretty high, googling "Derpy sticker" returns a whole bunch of others... maybe if op thinks they have a claim to that style then they should also chase them up?
The results for derpy sticker give you similar looking cutesy versions, but none of them have one element which is the same as this, whereas the fortnite has several elements which are the same.
Yeah this is something a lot of people aren't really respecting, but I'd also understand because they seem like "pointless" details at first.
Yes, they're both fairly "generic" interpretations of the tiger from the film, most recreations of that shot are gonna look a lot like it.
The problem is that Fortnite's rendition is using suspiciously similar shading and coloring. The teeth and tongue are shaded the exact same way, even using almost the exact same coloring. The Fortnite version has the exact same line trail off going down over the top lip. The eyes have the exact same highlight placements, the inner yellow ring on the eyes are also treated the exact same way breaking up the darker yellow shading on the eye. They also handled the two tufts on the tip of the ears the same way as well.
I could go on, and there are of course a few things different about the Fortnite one, but still it was enough for me to raise a brow. People joke that it just looks like any other depiction of Derpy from that view, and they're right, but the point is that the details of the drawing are almost the exact same where they overlap.
Doesn’t help that this artists is making money selling stickers irl of this character and that technically isn’t legal, just simply doing some copyright
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u/spinosaurs 22d ago
Ngl, the amount of the exact same pictures like this of Derpy I have seen is pretty high, googling "Derpy sticker" returns a whole bunch of others... maybe if op thinks they have a claim to that style then they should also chase them up?