Ever notice that a huge portion of the Top 100 Images of the day are always stolen? And just how retarded the art thieves that post them are? Even the ones that don't choose blatantly obvious works from professional artbooks and fansites make all sorts of mistakes that give them away.
Usually what an art thief chooses to steal is some sort of huge, complex CG with hundreds of tiny details, each of which could have gone wrong very easily. Yet all they have to say about it is "I like red so I used red" or "Spheroth is my favriote char so I drawed him," which is a GIGANTIC warning sign. It seems that if they'd ever even picked up a pencil or opened photoshop, they would have figured out that art is more complicated than that. Colors, textures, character anatomy, time constraints... There's a s**t ton to comment on. And most artists take the time to do that when they post. And uh... they try to sound at least remotely professional as well.
Another thing that's funny is when the picture's level of detail is consistent with being done digitally at a high resolution, but the version submitted to Gaia is tiny and has TERRIBLE quality. Or even better; scanlines, page numbers and crossed-out watermarks. And the art thieves still think they're being convincing. Sure image hosting sites do warp things at times, but they don't usually turn an 11x9 CG into something the size of a business card. And even then, most artists know how to save lower res versions of their pictures and still make them look decent.
I've also noticed that most of these thieves have names like "NartuoSasekeK" or "BaaByGuRLie5725," which is another tipoff. Why would a professional level artist wanting to get people to remember their work use such an awful name? Take a look at the top artists. Most all of them have easy to remember, literate sounding names.
Why are these people such idiots? Maybe its just because art theft is such a pointless endeavor to begin with... I can only see profiting from it if you're too stupid to make the distintion between praise for you and praise for someone else. But even then, can't you just write "Wow, you're talented!" on an index card and pretend it came from the president? Why go through all the danger of getting caught stealing?
Music: Gogol Bordello - Think Locally, ******** Globally
Tris_Skyshadow Community Member 
|
|
