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By the way, yes, regardless of legality I know it’s massively lazy. No pro artist should be lifting designs straight from another artist without credit.
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@Background Pony #1316  
Are you trying to be smart? You’re failing hard.
 
Of course ponies have been in armor, by your logic every person who’s ever drawn a human in armor is copying. The problem is that Fosgitt copied a fan’s harmony armor design 1:1. Even if it is legal, it’s still an extremely lazy thing to do, especially for a “professional artist”.
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@dynamicv
Guess what: it’s still plagiarism
 
Wow this man, when it was on purpose, copied the Armor Design and what did the fucking fandom did? Ranting and whinning as usual. Even that ponies in armor where in the show before fanart came.
 
And to top the fact, every artist copies the ponies and the world “twinkle twinkle”.  
Like every other fandom did. The fucking copyright screaming and and everthing with this, gets since a few years completely out of control.
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@Arboreal Shelter  
I don’t think many people, if any, care about the legality or whatnot of stuff like this, but the morality and work ethics of it.
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Pretty much this.
 
Sure it’s technically legal, but it makes you look like the laziest person around, doubly so if you’re supposed to be a professional.
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The problem is that IDW - and by extension their artists - have official model sheets to work from. They shouldn’t be resorting to google to find that imagery, they should be using the resources supplied to them.
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@Nightweaver20xx  
Agreed.  
If anyone ever thinks about sueing Hasbro for using his/her fanart, he or she will not have understood how this works.  
Luckily people here are smarter than that.
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Here’s the thing, and this is something I truly believe: If you draw trademarked characters, you automatically sign over rights to the company that owns them. That company is free to force you to take down the art or take ownership of it for any reason whatsoever at any time. When we draw fanart of MLP, the same applies. The more prominent the fan artist, the more likely he/she’ll get the attention of the company that owns the characters.
 
This is what happened here. An IDW artist found some excellent fanart by the admittedly highly skilled EP, and probably took it for official art. He then lifted the designs because he knew his company already had rights to use the MLP character art. Nothing anyone can do. It’s unfortunate that EP doesn’t get credit, but that’s the way things go in dodgy areas like fanart. The end.
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nice fanfic the first one
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Not exactly mad, but more dissapointed that Fosgitt is still just lifting things he sees on google wholesale. You have to admit it’s pretty weird that Pencils got rejected from being an artist to “not meeting the standards” when art like this regularly happens in the comic.
 
“Standards”
 
Likely means to them that Pencils didn’t have strong enough relationship to Hasbro. That business, baby!
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@Binkyt11  
Not exactly mad, but more dissapointed that Fosgitt is still just lifting things he sees on google wholesale. You have to admit it’s pretty weird that Pencils got rejected from being an artist to “not meeting the standards” when art like this regularly happens in the comic.
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On one hand, this shows how much care Fosgitt has to what he worked on.
 
On the other however, legally speaking, the characters is still owned by Hasbro and Fosgitt is one of their official workers.
 
Honestly there’s nothing to do more than just hope that Fosgitt got some more care to his comic.
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Seriously, I understand why y’all are mad. You don’t want people taking credit or designs from others, but some of y’all need to chill a bit. I mean it’s not that hard to have some curtsey ya know?
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Looking through all of comments in this thread, you are possibly the chillest freaking person with all of this. Especially with the case surrounding around your art (BTW the armor designs fit really well). Good on you my dear friend. Keep being your awesome self.
 
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In all honesty? You’re not the only one. It’s cute and very dynamic. Different from the show and anatomically questionable, yes, but not the misbegotten, clotted discharge of Shub-Niggurath that so many decry it as.
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I’m off two minds of this. While I think there’s a good chance that Fosgitt lifted the design from that artwork, the original designs themselves aren’t really unique or clever so it’s not that unlikely they both mostly took the designs from aspects in the show.
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Fine, perhaps I am coming across as too hostile, but I still feel that Fosgitt is by far the worst of the comic artists, so the notion that he would just copy something he found on the internet doesn’t really come as much as a surprise to me.
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LOOK AT THEIR EYES THOUGH
 
MY FUCKING SIDES
 
I mean it’s cool that this happened but… like, damn..! That’s terrifying!
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(Anyways, it’s fun to derail drama, but I think I better unsubscribe, and get out before it starts again. Bye, guys.)
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Well, you eat baby hedgehogs. j/k
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Yes. It’s the WORST. POSSIBLE. THING! full
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Is it bad I actually like Glimmer’s goofy “I’m strong” pose there? lol sometimes his rubbery limbs bug me, but sometimes they amuse me.
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@Beau Skunky
 
Ooh, an excuse to wheel out my thing again!
 
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Top left is a simplified example of a horse’s leg. Next to it are a few more stylised examples of how those bones bend. Key points to note are relative straightness of the lower leg, the way it bends, and the presence of the calcaneus which forms the lump that a lot of people mistakenly take as the position of the ankle joint. THe joint, as you can see, is to the front of the leg.
This affects how the leg moves. The ponies on the show are designed with this in mind, simplified as they are – their legs bend and move like horse legs. This rule is only “broken” on the rare occasions when they turn to noodles, but even then the motion is informed by that underlying anatomy.
Lower left is how Fosgitt draws a leg. There is no ankle joint, there is just a single bone with a 90 degree bend. This is especially visible when he draws the ponies bipedal (which is often) and when he draws them sitting down on things: the leg looks unnatural and deformed.