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You ever seen a ring so clearly photoshopped smooth and think "yeah, show this at the convention"? Apparently someone has. And apparently someone thinks photoshop art theft man is still trustworthy enough to do business with. Shameful.

lol, you guys suck so bad

The ring tempted me

Not what I was expecting to hear. Wow.

Please use real Alt text and this art theft is unacceptable

Imagine Hasbro actually owning up to their mistakes instead of pushing the blame down to the people they pay.

I did. It seems fishy at best.

It seems there may have been some cognitive issues occurring at the time according to his agent. The "he did the right thing once he understood" gives me the impression he's slipping and some days he's there and some days he's not. Pure conjecture and could just be their way of explaining it away.

It's not tracing when both of the pieces are completely digital (a style Dan is not known for).

This is insane. That man is a legend. There is more to this.

Did not see that coming

"Use of her work" = 'Plagiarism we profit from' "None of this was intentional" = 'We know WE'RE lazy but this'll hurt our sales numbers' "Credit both Dan and Marta" = 'We might need Dan to push more SL's later' "We are all humans who make mistakes" = 'Forget about it and keep giving us your money'

Not really. We changed two big sets a la lotr and baldurs gate and a master set (that usually has new art anyway) for 3 small standard legal sets We have more standard sets but the same amount of sets overall, with a similar number of commander precons too

That isn't how yugioh works.

Not remotely the same thing. Yugioh sets are comparatively tiny, half of the sets are reprint sets, and lets be honest, the art is not nearly as complicated or detailed most of the time. Pokemon too, anime style art is cool but it is just not the same magnitude of difficulty.

This terf has been name searching to defend nielsen and mckinnon from all the mean queers talking shit about them, I wouldn't bother

you might want to check dan the plagiarist's socials because he straight up admitted to it in the past 24 hours.

I'm seeing a distinct lack of a statement from Marta here. What's her stance? Right now this looks like another case of a guy stealing the credit for a woman's work and being protected / not being punished for it. Paintovers are what you do to learn, to study and improve, not for commercial work.

This

What a crazy twist I honestly figured they'd have a reason.

The 81 year artist who took the comission and the art directors who trust and respect him as they have built a working relationship over 35 years It's the same reason they didn't review it as they normally did, they respected and trusted a coworker of 3 decades. It's called being a human being...

I'm not saying Dan should get a pass and I'm not saying WOTC isn't capable of doing their due diligence of checking their products. All I'm saying is that it sounds like there is a LOT of spinning plates and that there are going to keep being cracks at this pace of production I'm just disappointed

Guy who has only watched boss baby:

and without that I don't think there's anything particularly occam's razor-defying about "hey dan, have you had time to do those revisions" -> receives plagiarized work -> "ok great!" by a person who is checking a treadmill of other artists that day, especially if he has 30 years of goodwill

I am pulling from WotC's take of "none of this was intentional" and "Dan made a mistake". I don't see a world where one would actively know it's a Magic card and somehow unintentionally or mistakenly copy it.

His agent mentioned going back and forth with Wizards on this piece. I wonder what his first attempts looked like. I wonder what pushed him in this direction. Maybe they sent him Marta’s art as a reference.

Mark did mention that the version they used wasn't the right one but 🤷‍♂️

Here's what I'm thinking: You guys kept badgering Dan and when he finally had enough and left, you got some intern to trace this and credited Dan. Now you're making him take the heat for it Btw, im screenshotting this so if you delete it or whatever I got receipts.

How the fuck does one “unintentionally” paint over an existing piece?

Dan is in the wrong here, absolutely. I would also ask that wotc review internal policies that played a role in Dan feeling the necessity to do this, and how things like this could be caught in the future faster.

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This entire statement is dancing on a fine line between dubious insincerity and flat-out lying to your customers, Marta, and yourselves. I'd say more, but bsky's character limit is only 300, which isn't nearly enough to convey my immense disappointment with both dan and wotc's choices on the matter.

and what would be the benefit of that? not only for wotc, but for the players do you think little timmy is going to gaf about this when he opens his one ring in his birthday pack?

Posts like this remind me that every social media site is just full of idiots

that would just double the amount of one rings out there and make this art even more of a chase. people won't shred this version if they get a reposition, they will sell it

They stopped stamping pre-release promos to save a fraction of a penny per card. They're not going to send whole new cards out over this.

Do people really think this is a thing that can be done?

Literally not even a slap on the wrist. Artists have been crucified for this in the past.

This should be the most blatant example imaginable to slow down how many sets we get in a year. Quality control should have caught this way before print, but now we have art theft being printed into the one Universes Beyond set people were looking forward to this year. Do better, all of you.

Wonderful, thank you!

I think a lot of people (me included) are mad for valid reasons but we should maybe take a pause, see what happens in the next day or two and actually see if we can understand what happened here

They probably don't want a bunch of weirdos with justice boners sending death threats to an 80yo man

Marta Nael does not own the rights of the picture. Any lawyer taking that case is a charlatan trying to grift. If you believe wotc (the owners of the rights) should sue wotc (the publishers of their stolen IP) you might be a bit too gone

His usual efforts are oil painting. They wouldn't let him do that.

Fine he's old. Retire him

Artists submit the art

Seems like not having sets that used pre-existing material requiring a license would have avoided this entirely

Yea but what I'm saying is there wasn't even any "painting" done

artist 102 is to steal

Yeah, references are normal and an important part of creating art. This looks like it is the reference though and should never have gone into print as a final.

If he had actually "painted over it" (especially in oil) it would definitely look different, recreating these details would have been harder than just doing it in his own style. And in that case it would have been heavily referenced artwork but not plagiarism/copied like this is.

Any artist worth their salt who 'grabs an image from the internet' would AT SOME POINT think to themselves 'hmm, I should make sure it's ok to use this in my art, I should check the license for usage' But to crop, flip, apply a burn filter and clone tool over EXISTING MtG art? Bro. WHAT.

What's shocking to me is that it was a terrible job of covering it up. Like, really? He could not event cut the thing out correctly?

If I get this version from my box topper I will rip it in half. I'm picking up a bundle one. Not gonna sell it because I stand on prinicple for this. I will post a reply of proof.

I mean probably, but *for the moment* I’m going to take it at face value. I’ve better things to do than get angry about this right now.

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the set doesnt come out for months, reprint them with different art. its not just the plagiarization, its simply a horrible piece of art. the ring looks poorly cut-and-pasted onto an entirely different piece of art. its just floating there with no consistency in its color palette or lighting. yuck

Where was the art director? They didn't do their job

You're a slanderous liar. Terese and Seb are farther away from being Nazis than you are. If Dan Frazier stole art, he's 10x worse of artist for MtG than both of them combined. There is NOTHING an artist can do professionally as an artist that is worse than stealing someone else's work. Fire him!

i didn't know the trouble in paris lady had shooters

>the other nazi is worse!!!! All three should be [redacted]. Takes a very particular brand of freak to pretend plagiarism is worse than fascism, but I guess terfs are brainless freaks

I was thinking 3 years. Age and punishment really have no connection after one becomes an adult.

Still haven't apologized for gaslighting those eagle-eyed fans years ago with clearly AI promo art for Ravnice Remastered...

NOTC when a woman artist expresses personal opinions that go against corporate policy: "Burn the witch! This is a safe space!😡😡" NOTC when a man literally plagiarized the work of a woman: "pwease fowgive him, he's so sowwy look at him 🥺🥺"