DO NOT commission/trade with Sutaa

[filthy-animal.livejournal.com]

Just passing this along after hearing it from a few others and seeing the proof myself, today. I don't know these folks, nor do I have a DA account, so someone else should inform them if they can!

Sutaa on FurAffinity has been trading and attempting to sell icons traced from this animation by Zack, which was originally made for someone going by "Potato".

Evidence is deleted (mostly) because I am made of fail and forgot to screen-cap. However, I saw Sutaa tell another person that these icons are for sale for $10. Sutaa denies stealing the art in the icons, and has various pieces in his gallery that also seem traced as well.

This shout was left on my main gallery after I publicly alerted others using his icons:

...Funny, when I replied on his front page, linking the original GIF, my reply magically ~disappeared~! How silly!

EDIT: I received a note from them.


TL;DR: Sutaa trades/sells traced art. Avoid.

Comments

[ellonwye.livejournal.com]

So no proof then? No evidence? Nothing?

[blasphemusfish.livejournal.com]

I saw the rip earlier, it did seem totally traced/horizontally flipped. Crap I can't remember who it was for, but they were using it as their current icon, maybe they still are?

[blasphemusfish.livejournal.com]

http://a.facdn.net/blondefoxy.gif
NVM here it isss, just had a looksy and they had left a shout on sutaa's page.

[filthy-animal.livejournal.com]

It's scattered about or deleted.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/blondefoxy/
^using one of the icons right now, done as a trade for BlondeFoxy

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4083603
^another one of them

I really don't have much else but my word. :| Take it or leave it, I guess!

[genkigami.livejournal.com]

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3339/blondefoxy.gif Imageshack link in case BlondeFoxy changes the icon.

[vyncentesovar.livejournal.com]

PERPETUAL MOONWALK

[kriscynical.livejournal.com]

Gotta love how the spots don't move on that second one. A+ animation there!

[furlic.livejournal.com]

omg the second one!! The spots don't move XD

it's obvious that those were traced; saying the icons were coincedentally similar is just a bunch of BS.

[kurenaipaladin.livejournal.com]

Honestly I would say it speaks for itself.

[ellonwye.livejournal.com]

Well now I've seen the evidence, yeah. I just didn't it'd be fair the brand the person a thief without any examples so people could judge from that.

[filthy-animal.livejournal.com]

It's cool! I wish I had more evidence to give, really!

[claytronic.livejournal.com]

I can second this. I've seen these traced icons.

[accomesafterb.livejournal.com]

That animation is way old, no wonder they thought they could get away with it. Lame excuses for a really obvious trace.

[baddakutachi.livejournal.com]

I thought that animation was based on an old Lion King one?

[filthy-animal.livejournal.com]

It does look like it! I'm not sure.

[baddakutachi.livejournal.com]

Found what I was thinking of:

http://www.mylionking.com/resources/site_images/animated_gif_000_simba_hakuna_matata.gif
http://www.mylionking.com/resources/site_images/animated_gif_028_teensimba_hakuna_matata.gif

[filthy-animal.livejournal.com]

Oh wow!

Maybe it's a trace of... a trace? Or not a trace of what we thought it was?

Maybe I'm full of crap. Either way, I still think it's lame to trade/sell something that's referenced like that. XD


edit: Argh, that didn't make sense. Sorry, I'm tired. I meant, a trace of something traced from the movie.

Or is it "referenced"? Either way, yeah.

[pinkdino.livejournal.com]

Zack's not the kind of person, from what I know of him from ages ago, to deliberately trace another animation

but, tbh from my point of view still.. head swaying is kind of a simple idea for a quad animal?

[ocelotish]

The legs move differently. The fox moves left front with right rear (at exactly the same time), Simba moves both left legs at the same time (first rear by a little bit) as all cats do. It seems like it's just another kind of head-bop walk cycle.

[spiffystuff.livejournal.com]

Definitely not!
The legs move differently, the tail is totally different, the ears, etc.
It's okay to do similar animations, especially as simple as a char walking and bopping. It's not ok to trace an animation cuz you don't know how to animate XD

[kurenaipaladin.livejournal.com]

It's probably referenced to that walk cycle but certainly not traced :)

[biztheshiz.livejournal.com]

It's the age progression scene of simba, timon, and pumbaa. Where it's just the choir and musical part of Hakuna Matata

[baddakutachi.livejournal.com]

And uh, I know it's not a direct trace guys. xD

[genkigami.livejournal.com]

I was trying to remember where I heard the name before.

And then I remembered; this is the girl that threw a fit on PatchedTogether because people critiqued her sparklewolf from her epic wolf comic. I always thought the art she entered was free lineart or something.

Their attitude always made me go "ehhh" anyway. Warn well deserved.

[kuwaizair.livejournal.com]

yeah. I was going to say "uh, could be or she got a lot better fast"

[biztheshiz.livejournal.com]

another weaboo beginner artist who doesn't know how color works and tries to get by with tracing.

I've seen too much of these.

[korsetkoat.livejournal.com]

Pretty much took the words out of my mouth.

[biztheshiz.livejournal.com]

and Neil Patrick Harris looks especially sarcastic
<3 your icon so much.

[grimmhooke.livejournal.com]

Thiiiiis. Seriously kids.

[lichdog.livejournal.com]

Wow she could have at least done a moving background for Lucky's rofl

[ducttapeninja.livejournal.com]

But that'd require finding a moving background to trace over! D:

[kathy-lu.livejournal.com]

Your icon is so pretty, btw. <3 did you draw it?

[zoom-gas.livejournal.com]

Yeahhh I was kind of wondering what was up with that :S

[biztheshiz.livejournal.com]

Since MJ has passed moon walking has become quite an epidemic. No one is safe, not even traced icon animations!

[digivolution.livejournal.com]

Someone paid 10 bucks for this?

[filthy-animal.livejournal.com]

He made it sound like it was a gift/free, so eh.

[lunasilvertail.livejournal.com]

I KNEW that I've seen that icon/animation somewhere before.
I just couldn't put my finger one it. D:

[lunasilvertail.livejournal.com]

Wow I can't believe I missed that before I clicked send.

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