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Xander

08-28-2021, 09:59 AM
A Twitter thread was trashing my Mario sprites (that Dorkly uses) and the thread caught some fire: 
https://twitter.com/CursedAni/status/143...6274693125

Longtime spriter and pal Tonberry2k went to bat for me and pointed out that my (and many other spriters) work has been used by Dorkly without credit for over a decade:
https://twitter.com/stymiedthoughts/stat...8219206659

Tonberry2k was able to get enough people to retweet his concerns and this morning, I got a formal apology from Dorkly in my inbox:
https://twitter.com/dorkly/status/1431473180670050305
@Dorkly: It has come to our attention that *tons* of our videos use artists’ work w/o acknowledgement or permission. Unbelievably shitty of us, and there really isn’t any good excuse for it. We’re going to be contacting every artist in order to right this wrong.

Quite a ride! I thought I'd share here.

DioShiba

08-28-2021, 08:44 PM
There have only been a fairly few of these shorts from Dorkly that I liked but I had a feeling a lot of the sprites they used were picked up from here.

It's seriously a shame. I love sprite animation when it's done right and it can work insanely well in after effects, but most of the time its better to hire an artist and animator to do that and go out on a limb for them. I'm glad that they're righting the wrongs but a part of me wonders how this scandal is going to affect them.

Ton

08-29-2021, 09:38 AM
It seems like they want to handle this the right way going forward. They're looking to find all the people whose work they've used and credit/compensate them. A big win for pixel artists!

Xander

08-30-2021, 07:59 AM
(08-28-2021, 08:44 PM)DioShiba Wrote: [ -> ]There have only been a fairly few of these shorts from Dorkly that I liked but I had a feeling a lot of the sprites they used were picked up from here.

It's seriously a shame. I love sprite animation when it's done right and it can work insanely well in after effects, but most of the time its better to hire an artist and animator to do that and go out on a limb for them. I'm glad that they're righting the wrongs but a part of me wonders how this scandal is going to affect them.

Yeah, it's hard to say. Sprites and spriting are a pretty niche subculture. Many people might not care at all.

(08-29-2021, 09:38 AM)Ton Wrote: [ -> ]It seems like they want to handle this the right way going forward. They're looking to find all the people whose work they've used and credit/compensate them. A big win for pixel artists!

Yeah, I think it's a big win for sure! They seem to want to do right by artists and the community, which is great to see.
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