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Note Me[EDIT]FOLLOW UP: rianald.deviantart.com/journal… & CLOSING THOUGHTS: rianald.deviantart.com/journal…I don't know either. Today I sat down to take a nap, and then I'm woken up with my mom saying that my boyfriend Steve has tried to call me twice and then finally came to inform me about something "urgent". Even right now I'm not completely awake yet.
I was worried something horrible happened. This is how it went...
Me: What's so urgent?
Steve: Riana, this isn't a joke, this is very serious. Your art is in a Sonic game.
Me: ...what?
Steve: Some idiot at Sumo cut a picture of Sonia from that old profile picture of yours and put it in SEGA All Stars Racing.
Me: ...huh. (not "huh?" but just "huh")
So. This is the picture that was "stolen":
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This is how it was applied to the game:
And here is a video that Steve has made:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9WC4E…I find the situation is very funny. I can't say I'm thrilled, I can't say I'm angry (To elaborate, now that this has sunk in a bit, I'm thrilled that my artwork is in a game, but theft is theft, so that's the part that bugs me a little bit, because after Steve said that my artwork was in a game, I remember thinking to myself "...I never remember giving any permission to that.... am I missing something?").
This is just really funny to me.
I'm really not sure how to react or if any sort of action could be taken. I'll have to look into it.
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It's fan art you stupid idiot. You own no rights to the character, so you can't take any action. Be thankful your art is even in there, because it sucks dicky dick to begin with.
(lol well you must see the possitive side!)
Well, it's still pretty cool.
Though, what does Sonic Underground have to do with the game? Why Sonia? Why- oh, whatever.
If i were in your position, i'd probably laugh too. XD But then i'd probably try and contact them for at least an explanation. Maybe ArchangelUK would be best to contact. I think he mostly deals with community issues
Who knows, maybe you'll get compensated or something. And they dont really own sonia i think, wouldnt the guys who made the tvshow own the rights? (not that i know anything about the legal system). worth a try right?
Well anyway even if you dont own the character, i think you at least own the rights to the image under copyright law, at least thats how i understand it.
If I see Sonia, I'll post it on dA.
So the best thing to do, IMHO, is to just be happy they thought your art was good enough to be put in a official game. Best of luck to you whatever you decide to do
as I just got to hear about all this I just thought "I really have no idea if I should be happy or angry if I was in the same situation O_o" ... I seriously don't know XD
Yet, I guess I wouldn't want it to be removed (which probably wouldn't be possible anyway) but I guess I'd want to at least have some credits on this o^o;
I mean, just because you don't own the character doesn't change the fact that you made this!
So many Artists in the past drew portraits of famous kings and queens, they didn't invented the humans on the drawing, but they made it. And if someone copy/steal it, its art theft :/ Same done with yours. As long as you can proove it is seriously your drawing, and we all know it is, SEGA is fucked (: They own the char but you the art, and it is your art on the game... thats seriously just poor fram them just P O O R :/
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i didnt think theyd do that
they DO own the character though.........i think
So I personally doubt it's a hacker.
the one in a million chance of that happening and then one in a million getting it on tape then a third 1 in a mill to recegnize it how the hell does that happen
if this happened to me i'd kinda have the reaction the huh
then followed by a cool i'd love for that to happen to me more for the fact that my art would be seen and when the read about it more and more would actually look at my art
i'm betting this has gotten you a lot more views and other stuff like that