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Re: crap attempt at feline art [requesting better :P]

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You drew it yourself based on a statue? That's fine. If you shrunk down a photo of the statue, that's less fine.
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Re: crap attempt at feline art [requesting better :P]

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What kitty does is very different than tweaking an image. Who took the photograph and where did you find it? How do you know it's public domain?
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there is no info on the photos original author and like i already wrote it's a picture in a shop to present a physical item, this address to be exact http://www.tyberkatz.com/lfcs1.html

well that is no longer relevant for the picture bears no more resemblance to its original

btw somehow you're not so paranoid over someone elses sprite in an era already existing and getting supported for a long time that's an exact unmodified shrink of an external picture
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Find it, tell us about it, and we can take action. I am not omnipotent, I don't have time to examine every era online. I have time to read the forums.
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Re: crap attempt at feline art [requesting better :P]

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I guess both sculpture and photograph are not public domain, but copyrighted. In the other hand, I think the topic is enough generic by considering it not violating the copyright. It's only a fat meditating cat with something (a quaver?) in his hand.

By the way, given the different perspective, the sprite could feel weird with the rest.
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Indeed. Neither sculpture nor photo are public domain (that has a very distinct meaning, and doesn't just mean 'viewable by the public'... However, your representation seems to me to be different enough to have simply been inspired by, rather than copied from, the original. It looks like your take on the concept, rather than a copy.
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I'm not sure if the Budda Cat fits Wesnoth graphics well, maybe redo him (or find someone to) in a better style/perspective ?

I made a level 3 for your sprinter (assuming it's level 2), the hunter, and a new level 1, the mystic with a level 2, the witch doctor.

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hmm the longer fangs and earring are interesting, but excuse me if i dont take the longer ears, make him look like a mouse xD
the mystics well..purrers are actually nearly unarmed and heads are turned in opposite directions than the bodies, but the bodies look neat! could add a shield and it would work lovely for plaincats :)..hmm wait, plaincats have some armor..maybe to use the head of my attempt at a panther and fit it with those bodies..
maybe you're right about the buddha cat,would be more wesnothian to make his perspective more similar to the minotaur mystic from..strife?
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Real cats have longer ears than the sprinter (or at least more pointed ones). I didn't really understand what you meant about the mystics, but personally I like the level 1 (not so much the level 2 though).
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the problem with the mystic is that i need something to fit the units in my faction. The only mage in there is the purrer line:
Felinian society didn't develop the kind of mages and priests that other races have. Instead they have a kind of bard-shamans called purrers. Soothers are initiate purrers, they learn about various herbs and ways of tending the hurt and most of all - songs imbued with magic flowing along the purring sounds of their melody. The mystic purr can bring peace to a troubled spirit, calming the mind and letting the body regenerate faster, fill their listeners with courage, inspiring to great deeds and many other magical effects. In dire need, one may also emit a cursing hiss distorting the life energies of those who would come to them with hostile intent.
and they don't use much weapons, just a small dagger, but im thinking of changing that into just a claw attack
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Re: crap attempt at feline art [requesting better :P]

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He could just as easily be a light ranged/melee unit.
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Re: crap attempt at feline art [requesting better :P]

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i figured if kitty heads are such a problem maybe ill listen to my own advice - found a few photos, shrunk and extracted the baselines, still probably a bit big for a sprite but thinking these might help to make better kittyheads for sprites?
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The photograph of the statue is a copyrightable (and copyrighted) entity in itself. However, it is my opinion that your work is different enough from the photo for it to be unimportant anyway.
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Re: crap attempt at feline art [requesting better :P]

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mind getting off the copyright topic already? we're talking self-made art now thank you, if the word "photo" makes you sick mentionning it to a psychologist would give better results than to me, if i keep seeing that too often i'll have to visit one myself
these new pics are only borderlines, drawing aid, conceptional sketch, nothing to do with copyright, [keeps yelling louder and more incensorable words]

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Re: crap attempt at feline art [requesting better :P]

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Fair enough.

The new stuff looks god to me - that's the sort of use of reference material that I can really get behind. It's a good way to learn and be accurate.

However, you're correct in suggesting that those are still a little large.
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