Case #15 - Zelotic

This is a post about Zelotic who has been caught editing licensed photographs.

What she was editing was NOT stock images.

This is her shop (which of course she closed down after people called her out) lucky for me I screencapped her post before she edited it.

See the full size picture.

As you can clearly see directly in her post she claims that "she's meshing an avatar with a real life person."


Okay well whatever as long as she's using stock images that say that's it's alright to be used for commercial purposes but that's NOT what she's doing. She's taking copyrighted photos and using them in her work.


When she was confronted about that this is what she had to say.

See it for yourself

"The pictures im using say nothing about not having permission to use them,i make sure about that,im not that stupid  "

See it for yourself

"I am aware of all this,the pictures im using say nothing about contacting the artist first,and if it did,i do so."

Oh and please note right after she's confronted she closes down her shop.
Let's look at this picture and see if what she says is true!


So first let's look at this picture that she made.


Unfortunately I don't know who it was made but it's one of the examples on her post.
EDIT - Apparently it was made for Toxxeh

This is the original photo she used. The deviantartist's name is lithiumpicnic.

See it for yourself

Now she is right I looked everywhere on the deviant's page and there's nothing about about copyright or anything like that. So I sent a message to the artist himself to see if he allowed her to edit his photo and sell it. I'm still waiting for a response.

But then comes this picture she made for sometim3.

See it for yourself

The original photo is from a deviantartist called zemotion. 

This is the original photo she edited.

See it for yourself

But wait a minute right there in the description of the image there's a link that says "copyright notice".

What's the artist's policy about editing pictures?

See it for yourself

So as you can see the artist says NOT to edit the pictures in any way and NOT to use them as icons.

She got caught in her lie. 

She didn't look to see if she had permission to use them and she definitely did not ask.

Case #14 - Guest_Anazls / Not

Seems BJD pictures are making a come back even though they're not allowed.

Guest_Anazls was caught stealing BJD pictures and selling them for a very large amount in the GASR. Then only later to be found out she is actually Not's alternate account. It's sad to see such talent go to waste.

This was Anazls original post which has now been removed to the fact she has been disabled:


There were originally quite a few more BJD picture and she was asking 100k for all of them!
Unfortunately some got sold to unlucky buyers.

Now she states she spent an entire month on these.
Too bad they're all on the front page of a BJD site:



http://www.iplehouse.net/

Oh and please take note on the copyright posted right underneath the images.
And also another copyright at the bottom of the page:



Later after all this had happened, Not accidentally posted on her Anazls account in her shop Wonderland.
Unfortunately Shauncy came in a wiped the thread clean before any pictures were taken:


Link - http://www.imvu.com/catalog/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpbb2&file=viewtopic.php&t=335556&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=330

Even though Shauncy deleted our proof, which Not would have deleted anyways, Shauncy claims to be looking into Not's account:



So folks, please be weary of Not and her alternative accounts as well as ANY BJD pictures being sold in the GASR.

Case #13 - Slinky

Slinky was caught selling stolen BJD images, which aren't allowed in the GASR anyways.
She had a shop in which she stated the following things:


"All BJDs where photographed by me. (with permission from the owners)"
"Please do not steal my work.. v_v"
"Do not claim as your own. "
"*There are a Lot of scam artists on GASR who will save pictures from image sharing websites and sell them as their own. I am not a scam artist! All pictures where photographed and edited my ME."

They all claim that she is the only owner of the BJD pictures in this shop:


http://www.imvu.com/catalog/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpbb2&file=viewtopic.php&t=338748

She was then later asked for proof, this was the reply in which was returned:


Later on after searching the internet we seemed to have come across some familiar pictures:
Number 6 -

Link - http://dieuxfaux.deviantart.com/

Funny how this one even says "Not to be reposted or redistributed" right on the image.

Number 4 -

Link - http://pimprenellexchocolat.deviantart.com/art/if-i-were-a-good-man-124463414

And number 1 -

Link - http://dreda.skyrock.com/

The others are probably stolen as well but are harder to find the original copy.

From these pictures you can see that she didn't even make an attempt to edit them she just re sized em and slapped them on a blank 160x220 canvas.
All the artists that we found were contacted of their art being stolen and we are currently waiting their responses.

As for her other art, you should be cautious of what you're buying from her.
She stole once, she can steal again.

Case #12 - Artisticutness

Artisticutness is another one of Yesup's alt accounts.

But of course, at first Artisticutness completely denied being Yesup's alt.

Anyway Artisticutness has been copying and pasting parts and putting it on DPs.

Let's begin with these pictures which she posted in the critique thread in GASR:

It's pretty easy to tell that the nose has definitely been pasted on, even the lips do.

I took some samples of the skin colour of the nose and the skin colour of the surrounding skin and they are shockingly different. Also there seems to be a square outline around the nose, clearly suggesting some copying and pasting.

Also, in some of her other DPs that she's made, there seems to be the same nose and the same purple outline around the lips.

In most cases where she's pasted the nose, the nose is not even going in the right direction which it should be facing if it was edited/drawn correctly. The nose shows knowledge of tone and shadow and shine but the rest of her DP does not particularly show that. It looks like someone else has edited the nose.

When confronted with suspicion of copy and pasting, Artisticutness completely denies it, as well as denying being 'Yesap' (Yesup) and claiming she came to IMVU for a 'fun editing experience'. However later on in the thread, Artisticutness admits to being Yesup.

If you're still not convinced in this picture it is pretty damn obvious:

She claimed this was a 'WIP' of one of her DPs.

As you can tell this skin around the eyebrows, lips and nose is a completely different colour to the surrounding skin. In fact, if you look closely you can see the outline around them.

The nose is the same and once again facing in the wrong direction. The lips also once again have the same funny purple outline, and both of these features look EXACTLY the same as in the other DPs. It's fine to have the same style and technique, but I think this is a bit too similar.

Also the edits in this WIP show a much more advanced understanding of editing - quite contary to her usual editing style.

You'd think her talent in editing and understanding of tone and depth would transfer into her drawings, but it doesn't, at all.

I think we can safely say that this is a case of copypasta THEFT.

(apologies for not being able to find where exactly she was copying and pasting from, but we're sure it's not just from her work)

Case #11 - Unravel

This blog post is about a user named Unravel
We'll be focusing on this picture in particular.

Which was first posted in her shop "Press any key to continue". It's apparently a premade and she wants 6000 credits for it.

See it for yourself

Now before we even get started I would like to point out how very weird her "style" is.


First there's this picture.

Posted in her shop

The hair, face, and skin look so realistic.
The only thing that is slightly off is the boobs being placed so randomly high and the fact that the head is a completely DIFFERENT tone then the rest of the body.


Then comes this picture.

Posted in her shop

The hair doesn't look like it was made by the same person.. The first picture I posted the hair had great detail and depth and now this example the hair looked like it was made by a beginner. The hair has no acknowledgement of any light source. They don't look like they were made by the same person.

Lastly this is a picture she made in a free thread which I can't find at the moment.

Posted in a free shop

Now this hair not only lacks depth but shape as well. Usually she makes things look so realistic but here as you can see it doesn't look EVEN CLOSE to the work she made before.


Her extremely inconsistent pictures did spark some interest. 
Then one day anonymous found a shocking discovery. 


This picture:

Was actually a poorly edited version of this digital painting made by Azurelle @ deviantart.

See it for yourself

Here's an overlay of the two images. Now you see how perfectly the faces match up.

Still not convinced? Well here's the pictures side by side I'm going to point out all the stuff from the original that Unravel missed editing out.

Side by side without my markings on it. In case my markings are making it hard to see something.

Nope there's no doubt that it's just an edited version of that picture.

And chances are she's doing it with ALL of her pictures.

You've been warned.

A late edit on December 9th 2010.

We get a heartfelt apology from Unravel!

So finally she realizes that tracing is wrong and she promises never to do it again!

Or so we think....

Quickly after her apology she posts this picture. 

Nope she doesn't credit anybody in her post so the "face anatomy" must be her own... Like she promised!

No of course not.

She stole this one from Sakimichan on deviantart.