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I only write journals every four months (in April, August and December), but I felt like I had to say something about this here and now.
Several days ago, someone who wishes to remain anonymous, informed me of this situation: someone involved with this MKW Animation Studio had stolen several of my Disney Villains 3D fanart, along with several other deviant's 2D and 3D art, and included it in their portfolio. Other people affected contacted the person responsible for this, and made her remove some of the stolen art from her social media accounts, and some from her website too. At this point, she claimed to be an innocent victim, falsely accused, who has a legitimate 2D&3D studio, and that all of this was due to some honest mistake made by her webdesigner. But when I see my material (with my signature cropped out of the pictures) all over her website and social media, I cannot believe any honest mistake has been made. Furthermore, here you can see how some of the people who discovered all this and confronted her, took the trouble of contacting some of the professionals and studios cited in her resume, long story short: nobody knows this person or her 'studio'. So I wonder what happens when someone tries to hire her to do some of the 2D&3D work she showcases in her completely fictional portfolio, which is made out of promotional artwork by Nintendo, Square-Enix, My Little Pony and others that she had nothing to do with, plus fanart stolen from some of us.
Here's a screencapture I made of the 3D Anime Character Design section of her portfolio, where seven of my deviations are displayed without my permission. I contacted this person via dA, because even here at dA itself she had some of the stolen art displayed in her gallery, and so far I've had no answer.
Coincidentally, this whole thing happened around a time when several people were asking me to send them my actual 3D models, and other people are asking for me to please make them available somehow. What happened with all this only made me decide I'll never do that. For starters I'm the first one to realize that my models are nowhere near good enough to sell, but now that some people is capitalizing on my renders, I don't even want to imagine what such people might do if they had access to my actual sculptures. Probably I should stop offering high resolution versions of my renders too? I'll see what I'll do about that.
Sorry about this rant, but I just had to say something. Since it seems there's little else I can do. January's been rough on me, this happened, my modem broke and left me without internet connection at home, my dog died... and don't get me started on what's going on in my country. Hopefully the rest of 2015 will be more kind to me.
Several days ago, someone who wishes to remain anonymous, informed me of this situation: someone involved with this MKW Animation Studio had stolen several of my Disney Villains 3D fanart, along with several other deviant's 2D and 3D art, and included it in their portfolio. Other people affected contacted the person responsible for this, and made her remove some of the stolen art from her social media accounts, and some from her website too. At this point, she claimed to be an innocent victim, falsely accused, who has a legitimate 2D&3D studio, and that all of this was due to some honest mistake made by her webdesigner. But when I see my material (with my signature cropped out of the pictures) all over her website and social media, I cannot believe any honest mistake has been made. Furthermore, here you can see how some of the people who discovered all this and confronted her, took the trouble of contacting some of the professionals and studios cited in her resume, long story short: nobody knows this person or her 'studio'. So I wonder what happens when someone tries to hire her to do some of the 2D&3D work she showcases in her completely fictional portfolio, which is made out of promotional artwork by Nintendo, Square-Enix, My Little Pony and others that she had nothing to do with, plus fanart stolen from some of us.
Here's a screencapture I made of the 3D Anime Character Design section of her portfolio, where seven of my deviations are displayed without my permission. I contacted this person via dA, because even here at dA itself she had some of the stolen art displayed in her gallery, and so far I've had no answer.
Coincidentally, this whole thing happened around a time when several people were asking me to send them my actual 3D models, and other people are asking for me to please make them available somehow. What happened with all this only made me decide I'll never do that. For starters I'm the first one to realize that my models are nowhere near good enough to sell, but now that some people is capitalizing on my renders, I don't even want to imagine what such people might do if they had access to my actual sculptures. Probably I should stop offering high resolution versions of my renders too? I'll see what I'll do about that.
Sorry about this rant, but I just had to say something. Since it seems there's little else I can do. January's been rough on me, this happened, my modem broke and left me without internet connection at home, my dog died... and don't get me started on what's going on in my country. Hopefully the rest of 2015 will be more kind to me.
Ergol (OC) WIP
After months of not doing any artwork, I finally started sketching my OC "Ergol" 🍄 I began 3D-sculpting him live on Twitch 🤗 https://www.twitch.tv/aemiliuslives I didn't think I would make much progress and was just blocking some shapes, but in the end, it came up better than I anticipated and might actually be usable. "Ergol" was going to be my 2023 passion project, but for a variety of reasons (including my laptop breaking in December), I didn't manage to make much with it. But here we are, and there's always 2024, lol. VOD of the actual stream (I only began streaming last week, lol).
My 2022 into 2023
So, 2022 marked my 10th year on dA. For a variety of reasons, it's been one of my most inactive years here. But it's still been pretty productive. In April I did my 3D-sculpting Daily Challenge for the 7th time. I finally managed to put together the video showcasing all the renders, WIPs, turntable animations, and alternative renders of the 30 sculptures. Again with some terrible unscripted commentary (CC available). Take a shot every time I say I love something or something was fun to make, and you might end up in an alcoholic coma, lol. Also featured towards the end of the video, a look at some of the animation work I did this year, and what to expect from me for 2023. Animation (sort of basic and rudimentary, of course) is going to be my main goal next year. I'll probably make my Daily Challenge again in April, even though I always tell myself I'll never do it again, since it's so exhausting and time-consuming. My 7th annual 3D-Sculpting Daily Challenge. Some really weird and
Daily Challenge 2021 wrap up video
I finally put together this year’s 3D-Sculpting Daily Challenge wrap up video. Featuring all the renders, WIPs, turntable animations, and alternative renders of the 30 sculptures I did back in April. For the first time, I recorded unscripted commentary for this (CC available), which is something I always wanted to do (but I always chickened out of it). It didn’t come out great, but I’m ready to move on from this and call it done after so many months. LOL. Challenge gallery https://www.deviantart.com/aemiliuslives/gallery/77911672/2021-daily-challenge https://www.artstation.com/aemiliuslives https://www.instagram.com/aemiliuslives https://www.tiktok.com/@aemiliuslives
Hi
Hello. I hope everyone is doing fine in these unusual and scary times we're living.
I've been away from dA for nearly a year. Not only that: I've been almost completely disconnected from the community and from my "creative side" as well. I wanted to do many things. Like opening my own group, collab, support my friends, perhaps finally do commissions and stuff I always talked about. Instead, I drew back into a cocoon of isolation and darkness.
This time of social-distancing (or full-on lockdown in my case), feels like a good time to go back to making things. Occupying my mind in this time of uncertainty, try to build up some hope, and scratc
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I am really sorry to hear your art has been stolen. I don't understand why people feel the need to claim other people's art as there own and then go even lower to make a portfolio out of it and try to get jobs off of the art.
You are an amazing and talented person, and I really hope you continue to show off your work!
You are an amazing and talented person, and I really hope you continue to show off your work!