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If you're having troubles coming up with the perfect design for your draik, you might want to take a peek here. Design theft Just so we are clear: we only label something as design theft if a character is completely cloned. If a combination of features (colors, details, characteristics) is taken from one character, an accusation can be made. Single features do not make your design original, but the combination of features does. This has had an embarrassing history in the Clan, thus the obsessive over-reacting about "design theft" needs to be addressed. Please remember that not every pink Draik with blue hair is copying your Draik, nor every black Draik with bat wings and ram horns - it's the specific qualities that make your design unique - the combination of features, markings, colors, and shapes. Just as two identical twins can look exactly alike but be as different as night and day . . . Draiks with similar (but not identical) looks can be entirely different characters as well. If you suspect design theft and no one else has spotted it or said anything about it yet, then chances are that it's not a legitimate theft. Action against design theft will only be made in obvious, blatant, or purposeful carbon copies. Otherwise, it's suggested that you handle minor similarity problems on your own. (this may also be a good place to mention....) See the clan rules for more info on Art Theft (it's not allowed!! :p) |