Jay Wellen wrote:
maybe because you steal other peoples work.. your avatar looks eerrily familiar to a piece that I and Pete harrison did as a collaboration several years ago..

It isn't stealing when your friend 'Pete' decided to willingly upload most of his most popular works as tutorials, meaning that it included the stock image and effects. The only thing that's similar to Pete's original is the stock and the smoke jpegs. I don't even know how you can call it stealing when someone just followed a tutorial and posted the results.

That's some backwards logic. Not only that, but its a ferociously popular style. There are even people that rip the actual originals and just change the lighting and copyright it and try to walk off as artists. Paparazzi always had a glittery style so to speak, all he did was just follow a tut.

All of the effects other than the 'smoke' x 'pretty-generic-stock' are the only things that he used of Pete's are his. Otherwise, you can't try to call it a mindblowing style anymore that isn't easily replicated when everyone and their 13 year old cousin who just started using photoshop is trying to pull off that style now.

That style is only setting up to 3 or 4 colors on screen or lighten with a couple brushes, setting it to high pass and a few miscellaneous animals then BOOM it's a pete-harrison copy. That style is so out of date so it's just really odd that you're accusing someone of copying something that's been recycled since 05 now?

If you're going to come for this guy, might as well spend the next 10 years of your life trying to go after the idiots that try to make a living after using that method to the point where it means nothing.

bobbyp wrote:
Lol, who employs these people?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic … highs.html

Apparently a lot of people do.

I've wondered if those PSDs are the same thing as the FX people at Disney and other animated studies, who sneak stuff in to the movie.

Phunke Pixie wrote:
That bullshit just can't be true! For me, it's a stupid sabotage, black humour, joke... or whatever. VS's proved for the ages that at least they have a eye for what is esthetic...
I doubt that the other brands could afford such a failure either!
Don't believe in everything what the yellow press tells...

Actually I have seen the images some time ago in VS's web site! Is true! She actually looks like that... its scary!!!
I can not find it now but if i do i will post the link directly... if it's still there.....