Dengeki Prize Winner Guilty of Simmonsing

i dunno what's worse...this guy or nick simmons

Simmonsing xD , in UrbanDictionary.com the word has not the real meaning.
somebody do something about that xD.

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

Seems a bit of a stretch....

What's funny is all the bastards that must be crossing their fingers and praying 2ch doesn't find about their plagiarized stuff lol.

it's a lot less obvious than nick simmons at least, i'll give him that.

he's not a very good illustrator, but he is good at photoshopping stuff so at least you have to give him that.

his only error was that he was discovered. probably got lazy in even trying to make his tracing more discrete.

That is so sad, cause he didn't need to copy stuff, he was just lazy.

The interesting part is: No one would've even noticed if it wasn't for 2ch.
And here's the thing that should get you: If no one had noticed that, everyone would still be happy with it.

Including the plagiarized authors.

Yeah, the guy ripped off other people's work, but he did it in such a way everyone appreciated...

I wonder the real reasons behind this though.
Is it lack of talent, or lack of time?

The fact that several good artists are doing this (I'm not talking about Simmons) seems to point out some sort of problem in the whole business...

A shame. I liked his pictures.

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

Simmonsers are condemned to the eigth circle of hell.

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

nothing escapes the eyes of 2chan @_@

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

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.

2ch is a cake!

Anyone who knew Izumi Rei's artwork would be able to tell that first image was an imitation or whatever.
It was the thumbnail that tipped me off before I even saw the ToHeart2 fanart pic lol.

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OK, if I and you draw a picture of same egg from a same egg, is it alike?unlike?

This is called "sampling" people from the music industry do it too, like Jay Z's Big Pimpin sampling from the Egyptian piece "Khosara"

It would surprise you that people who do all those CG and Matte paintings for movies and concepts do the same thing, but with photos because it's harder to trace photography to one particular source. We do it mostly for textures and backgrounds.

But for this case, of course it's always a bad idea to sample from pre-existing artwork because such artwork already has a distinct feel to it, like if Leonardo cut and paste something from Michelangelo's works- it wouldn't be less noticeable because Michelangelo's rendition of what was cut and pasted was truer to the real thing he was trying to draw and paint- it would be noticeable because it was Michelangelo's particular rendition of that object. So of course, it would stick out in a Leonardo painting- even if both Leonardo and Michelangelo's works both reflected the era that they lived in.

First off, how in the hell does 2chan Find all of these things? Are they that bored?

second, everything he copied didn't seem to bad...Its not like he's just tracing the image..

whats the big deal?

This artist drawing style is a homage to Simmons way of drawing... I hope it stop spreading though.

In other copie... homage news:
It's REALLY sad how mediocre people wins any kind of award with crap like this...

Coincidental similarities, that's it.

Simmonsing. I love it. I might have to use that word, or would that make me guilty too? =P

...and one of my favorite Miku pics turns out to be... this.

*groan*

The next top Simmons

I have to commend their sharp eyes. Nothing escapes them

Wow i didnt know Simmon is a verb now

Well, he's still light years better and less stubborn than Nick (Simmons)..

And same flower species = Plagiarism....?
(Referring to the Yuyuko pic btw)

Couldn't the same similarities be said of all Anime related works?

Note the tongue-in-cheek sarcasm here people....

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

Wow, even this guy copied off Sayori.

Sad. He didn't have to do this.

People like this really piss me off. It's bad enough that they trace someone else's work but for them to try and make money off of it is just pathetic and an insult to any real artist.