Quote - I guess it's because people like to recreate stuff from their favourite movies. I see it as fan art more than as a rip off. Then again, I'm known to make everything and anything into Harry Potter characters, so I'm most likely biased on this one L My own Burlap Buddy is also very heavily influenced by the little guys in "9", that's no secret either. I made it because I loved that movie and figured others might, too :) 

Is it any different than to attempt to make celebrity clones? Not to me :) (but then again, I don't know how you feel about those)

If I knew how to believably scale legs ect in a pose / morph file, I would have attempted one of the Avatar guys as well :) 

Being inspired or influenced is one thing, that's a big part of creating for most arty types.  A complete copy is something else.

Celeb clones is a wierd one, I have no idea about that one :)  I don't think it is much different to copying a design, but I don't think mother nature is too jealous of her copyright rights :)

John.

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