Comments on: Dengeki Prize Winner Guilty of Simmonsing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:04:35 +0000

2ch and people here don't know shit about drawing and what plagiarism is.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:58:43 +0000

Wow, even this guy copied off Sayori.

Sad. He didn't have to do this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:53:57 +0000

Coincidental similarities, that's it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:33:05 +0000

They have Mystic Eyes of Plagiarism Perception

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:46:03 +0000

I'm not sure what you're talking about. He's the guy who drew the girl in the yukata/kimono; they're nailing him for ripping off the girl's face and pose. The girl in Miku-esque clothing is the *original* work, not the copy. It's fanart on Pixiv. That artist isn't making anything from his work, and it's an obvious tribute.

By: delande

delande — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:10:48 +0000

I wonder... why they look at for now???

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:06:34 +0000

whether this guy is plagiarizing or not aside (he totally is), this guy's art isn't even that good.

By: patokite91

patokite91 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:58:29 +0000

on photoshop ctrl+T > Free Modification

done.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:29:51 +0000

Hahaha. I actually didn't realize what he was referring to at first and kept trying to think what the word meant.

But to answer your question: no, of course not. Plagiarism happens all the time - Artefact is just using topical humor as he is wont to do.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:04:01 +0000

you do realize that 2chan DOES have a lot of free time and obsessive/compulsive freaks right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:46:37 +0000

They're really into Miku... he didn't copy the clothing from anywhere, he drew it on. There's nothing wrong with that.

By: celcius_01

celcius_01 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:19:47 +0000

I wonder why they call it "simmonsing" anyway? Is the first guy who got caught doing that is Simmons?

By: celcius_01

celcius_01 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:11:41 +0000

Funny how the guy who spotted the flowers spot the flowers. Wonder how the 2ch guys sees images of manga & anime...
Super-eyes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:58:45 +0000

I guess 2ch has a new and fun activity now.

By: Kinny Riddle

Kinny Riddle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:37:40 +0000

LOL at "Simmonising". Is that the new term to describe such activities now?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:01:44 +0000

OK, so given that most humans look pretty similar, and that anime/manga has a certain style, plus there are only a limited number of possible poses/stances a human character can do without looking disfigured.

How the hell do the 2ch idiots expect that with so many illustrators and artists who do hundreds of artworks, that there aren't going to be coincidential similarities from time to time?

By: davaeron

davaeron — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:24:53 +0000

2ch is a cake!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:20:18 +0000

same pose....
wonder, why sex scene that always to be the same pose never marked as plagiarism...
ROFL!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:38:03 +0000

nothing escapes the eyes of 2chan @_@

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:24:27 +0000

Oh, Momo-san~ I think I've come up something new about 2ch.
2ch:
Wound people's heart and spoil their hard work. w w w w w

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:49:14 +0000

I wonder how many other illustrators do the same practices. A pose here, a flower here, a skyline there- save a few hours on rendering all the mess the guy didn't feel like doing. Here's the thing though about that way of viewing it- if he is an illustrator and he didn't feel like doing all that work but felt pressured to do it- in my opinion he should have drawn what he wanted in the first place. Then no problems generally arise, unless you want to be a simmonsing and try to think you can pay 'homage' to a piece of work in a commercial format demanding original material. If you like it so much, draw it for yourself- you get the experience and no flak for no properly acknowledging the artist you so called 'paid homage to.' I do that a lot, and artists before have done that as well, and it's unfortunate that this douche-bag never got the memo.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:21:12 +0000

I really liked that drawing of neko-Miku.
Come on, it's not like shirokitsune had copied whole characters or scenes. Without reuse of code software engineering wouldn't exist. Copying other's work without payment may be bad but level seen here doesn't really bother me. Winning prizes with this was unfair for other artists though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:09:57 +0000

Please remember that plagiarism only requires you to be 20% different...

OP girl: different hair, different eyes, different mouth, different clothes, but same pose. (The amount of times this has happened I don't want to think about...)

The grey-scale looks way too similar...almost like hitting the flip button on paint and calling it good. (Can't defend this one at all..)

Half his flower arrangement had the same flowers as another picture...as if there aren't popular flower arrangements IRL? The work is similar but not traced.

The white haired anime girl is so generic I've seen the same one plagiarized 30,000 times apparently. Other than similar (not same) hair, eyes, and one arm angle this is fairly different.

Girl is sleeping. Different clothes, different hair, subtly different face, added the ear.

He copied an image of a location that was a copy of someplace that really exists? lol

The flower for comparison has some detail work done but definitely looks traced. It looks like he modified one and kept modifying it to make his other flowers. (Again though he copied something that exists IRL)

The sky is actually plagiarism ...which is funny as he didn't *need* to plagiarize the sky if he can draw the rest of the skyline that well. There are changes but they don't amount to 20% IMO (for that part). It could be argued that doesn't represent a 'significant' portion of either piece. (That's also important btw)

Ambiguous shadow vs ambiguous shadow...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:30:28 +0000

I don't think it's about time per se. Sometimes you just see or hear something that instantly reminds you of something else, that intense déjà vu feeling.
I've had it recently with the opening song of a J-drama (Sailorfukuto Kikanjuu). I immediately knew I had heard the song before as an insert song in Maison Ikkoku, even though I don't speak Japanese and, as it turned out, the music was rearranged for the drama and quite different from the original music from the film, as used in Maison Ikkoku.
If you copy something, chances are someone who has seen the original will recognise it. 2ch is immensely popular so you'd expect these things to come out there first.
Finally, a note to any budding artists reading along: if you want to copy/homage, publish the result with a note to that effect. If you find you cannot do that, don't publish it. Be honest about it.