Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: I know it is legal to make lookalikes of people, what about an artists character

Zev0 opened this issue on Aug 31, 2012 · 33 posts


Cage posted Fri, 31 August 2012 at 1:05 PM

Quote - I have heard of situations before where Disney, for example, has shut down production of other characters and films due to the art looking too much like Disney art.

Howard the Duck's highly successful monthly Marvel title was pretty much quashed by Disney.  Howard allegedly resembled Donald a bit too much.  At one point a diagram of the design changes required to Howard before the character could continue to be published was printed.  A great deal of focus was placed on small details.  The shape of the bill (Marvel had to thicken it), shape and placement of eyes, how certain feather details were depicted.

Nowadays, I suppose Marvel could restore the original Howard without fears.  Hmm.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.