I contacted the seamstress, and the matter is resolved on that part. She’s apologized and the images have been removed from her portfolio online. She should’ve never accepted the commission but mistakes happen. It’s done, it’s happened, it can’t be changed anymore. Please, no blame on anyone anymore.<\/p>\n
I’m sure this not super uncommon so I’d like to say this, and this is speaking generally to everyone, not to one person: It does not feel good to see something you’ve designed, made by someone else and profited upon. In this case, if I had been contacted first about the design, while I don’t make these particular uniforms for others, I would’ve offered to design and create a similarly themed outfit that would be different enough to be called a design of it’s own. I’ve done it once before<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve included some photos here, just to clarify that this isn’t a case of something ‘generally like it’ or ‘kind of similar’. I’m not overeacting.<\/p>\n This is the outfit I stumbled upon:<\/p>\n Anyone that has seen my Withdoll uniforms can see the similarity right away, but here’s what I gave the seamstress: And then this huge file: I’ve made different style and colour variations but they always have certain elements, most of which are present in the copy design. =__= Really, this was not something I was prepared to see while casually browsing about. This feeling is also why I’m really against copying things in general: it’s not a nice feeling.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Now, related to this, I’ve also been told by friends that especially in tumblr (?), people seem to think that I don’t take commissions. That is not true. I do take commissions.<\/strong> This seems to me like a case of someone saying they don’t think that I do and then it’s spread out as a fact. Please, always ask me<\/em>, before someone else (or any other artist). The only times I have refused commissions are these: a)<\/strong> I can’t make it (=no access to the right fabrics) b)<\/strong> I don’t own the right size -or a similar doll to try it on and\/or c)<\/strong> I’ve been too busy to make it.<\/p>\n Really, I take commissions. I’ve made quite a bit of commissioned outfits over the years. I even have a commission thread on the Finnish BJD forum, and I’ve been procrastinating about putting one up on DoA as well. I’ve written it -like a year ago, but putting it up makes me nervous because my local fabric store has such a bad selection I’m afraid I might not be able to make most things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Something came to my attention today that I thought I should talk a little bit about. Sorry in advance for the slightly negative and serious entry this time. This is kind of a hard entry to write, but I’ll try my best to do it properly. ___ This morning, I was browsing the internet and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo avoid upsets like these, the original creator should always<\/strong> be contacted first. If it’s not clear who it is, the design shouldn’t be used. If the original creator refuses to relinquish the design, they should be respected and not sent to some other seamstress to make. That seamstress also should not make it, if it seems from the reference images that it’s someone else’s design (or at the very least contact the original creator and ask if it’s okay to duplicate it).
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\nThis is important.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/shoots\/yourewelcome.gif\")
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\n(edited the photo and used with permission of the owner)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nhttp:\/\/fuyuhime.deviantart.com\/art\/Warrior-princess-396653050<\/a> \u21e0This is the particular design used (as each character has a slightly varied uniform) with the skirt type mizya used with it.
\nhttp:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/shoots\/shoot276.html<\/a> \u21e0These are most of the colours that were used and the actual base mizya’s outfit was made from.<\/p>\n
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