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rabidwooter wrote:Um, where's the Armageddon? Death by food?

He ate a hole through the Earth!

Kraketaer wrote:Uh, this makes no sense at all. Conquest? By whom? It's the fracking apocalypse, who is supposed to be left to conquer anything? Isn't the apocalypse the end of the world?

And besides, how is pestilence a problem visually? Some elements that fit nicely: pus, sores, boils, blood, wounds, saliva, gangrene. And the list goes on. Pretty easyly expressed (and easy to get for the viewer).

You just lost a vote due to miserable logic.

Calm down, conquest is one of the interpretations. Pestilence doesn't have to mean 'sores and boils' it could mean a proliferation of evil, such as conquest. You have a brain, use it instead of talking out of turn. Also, no need to be mean about it, jeez.

Anyways, I love it all. The only thing I would want would be famine to be holding some scales in his tiny tail. But that's it. GMV.

Re: The Last One

Oh yeah, I like thie one alot. I keep staring at this shirt. The scene just seems like it's about to start moving. The person and the wolf creature seems like they're gonna fight any second now.

The colors are badass, but too much pink / purple for a guy like myself to be wearing. Thumbs Up :D

beaterbar wrote:Drakxxx and Tgentry are frequently strong conceptualists and often better illustrators than those you criticize. I'm not trying to troll anyone here, just pointing out that your opinion would mean more to me on shirts if you called your friends out for pandering and conceptual staleness like you do for artists who you don't like. Drawing otterific shirts 99 out of 100 times shouldn't earn a pass from the critics for the 1 failure.

Could you please give an example? I haven't seen such a thing (other than maybe tgentry's entry into Kawaii but I saw that one as parody more than anything)

Re: I Bet It's Better There...V2

Reminds me of the Don Johnson movie from the 70s.
A Boy And His Dog

Re: So this is how it ends

that is the most otterific blue ever!

profbrendan wrote:You know, I really like this! Wish it got in sooner to collect more votes.

Yeah I am brand new to all this. I will try and act a bit quicker now! Thanks though!

Leudast wrote:Calm down, conquest is one of the interpretations. Pestilence doesn't have to mean 'sores and boils' it could mean a proliferation of evil, such as conquest. You have a brain, use it instead of talking out of turn. Also, no need to be mean about it, jeez.

Anyways, I love it all. The only thing I would want would be famine to be holding some scales in his tiny tail. But that's it. GMV.

Pestilence does not mean the same thing as conquest, and the "proliferation of evil" is a much harder concept to convey than "disease". If the argument is that Conquest was chosen because it's easier to convey, arguing for a harder interpretation certainly doesn't make the case.

Re: Unexpected Error

Damn good amazing job with this one. The Mozilla Foundation might try to pay you for this piece of art. Death by Fire Fox? Can't think of a better way to go :P

Re: The Four Seahorses of the Apocalypse

This illustration is cool, but the color choices are awkward.

gwp wrote:Z0MG!!1! You're right! It's like an exact copy and everything!

It reminds you "a lot" of the Threadless shirt? Because they both have panda's? Because they are both a similar play on words? I smell a troll.

Good lord, it's not trolling. Woot has never demanded that only exact copies merit rejection. Less similar shirts have been rejected in the past. For that matter, more similar ones have also gotten the green light, so you never can tell.

Regardless, they share same title, more or less, and both feature giant, destructive pandas. You'd have to be blind not to see the similarities. That doesn't necessarily mean that this should be rejected but freiz isn't a troll either. The rejectionator rule is, and has always been, "similar shirts exist", not identical.

clever girl

@Kraketaer and @Darquis:

While doing my research I noticed that the horseman's arrows were said to bring plague, so it still symbolizes "pestilence" by holding an arrow. I personally thought it would look better than drawing a diseased seahorse, and separate it from "famine" better. The crown is for conquest, but as an afterthought I added the arrow for pestilence so it could be either. I called it "conquest" in my description because I thought it would be easier to understand.

jmmbell1987 wrote:You'd have to be blind not to see the similarities.

So, because No1 uses panda's in every design, they will all be similar to this threadless shirt? And any design featuring exaggerated lips (Kenney9226) will run afoul of a similarity to the Rolling Stones logo? Oh come on. You're looking to cause trouble, and it's really not necessary.

Kraketaer wrote:Uh, this makes no sense at all. Conquest? By whom? It's the fracking apocalypse, who is supposed to be left to conquer anything? Isn't the apocalypse the end of the world?

And besides, how is pestilence a problem visually? Some elements that fit nicely: pus, sores, boils, blood, wounds, saliva, gangrene. And the list goes on. Pretty easyly expressed (and easy to get for the viewer).

You just lost a vote due to miserable logic.

I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the seven living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come and see." I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on Conquest.

Re: Diabolical Sun

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Re: That's No Moon

You've got my vote and at least 20 of my dollars if you make.

gwp wrote:So, because No1 uses panda's in every design, they will all be similar to this threadless shirt? And any design featuring exaggerated lips (Kenney9226) will run afoul of a similarity to the Rolling Stones logo? Oh come on. You're looking to cause trouble, and it's really not necessary.

You're putting words in my mouth (er, keyboard?).

You called freiz a troll. I posited that he was simply noting similarities that do exist, due to content and theme. I never made the leap that every panda shirt would also be too similar. I'm not sure where you got that.

Panda shirts are one thing. Giant destructopandas are far more specific, and it's not trolling for freiz to note that.

And no, I'm not looking to cause trouble. I never am. I saw fit to defend freiz. I haven't said anything incendiary.

darkwulf wrote:http://www.splitreason.com/product/631

Wow, didn't even see that one. Still think my design is better.

raiki21 wrote:I mean no offense at all when I say this, but the thumbnail made me think someone was getting raped by Superman.

That someone is Galactus from Marvel while Superman is DC. This word you keep using, "think", I'm not sure it means what you believe it means.

SquatterBag wrote:That someone is Galactus from Marvel while Superman is DC. This word you keep using, "think", I'm not sure it means what you believe it means.

....and Reed Richards is Marvel. If one can think that he looks like Superman, one can easily think that Galactus looks like someone else.

Also, DC and Marvel crossed over once upon a when, so such a "team up" could have happened.

unseenone wrote:Wow, didn't even see that one. Still think my design is better.

Thought it might have been a parallel idea. Was one of those things that was kind of an instant "Ha!" when I saw my friend wearing the other one.

unseenone wrote:Wow, didn't even see that one. Still think my design is better.

Sadly, it doesn't matter. No video game references allowed.

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rabidwooter wrote:Damn good amazing job with this one. The Mozilla Foundation might try to pay you for this piece of art. Death by Fire Fox? Can't think of a better way to go :P

I just read about Best Buy going after a Catholic priest for copyright infringement. Seems the good Padre was driving around in a black VW New Beetle with a logo reading "God Squad." Said logo was quite similar in color and shape to BB's own Geek Squad logo.

The point of my little story is that, despite the fact that I like this shirt very much, it is more than a little similar to Mozilla's Firefox logo. I wonder if it sufficiently different enough to withstand scrutiny.

loaba wrote:I just read about Best Buy going after a Catholic priest for copyright infringement. Seems the good Padre was driving around in a black VW New Beetle with a logo reading "God Squad." Said logo was quite similar in color and shape to BB's own Geek Squad logo.

The point of my little story is that, despite the fact that I like this shirt very much, it is more than a little similar to Mozilla's Firefox logo. I wonder if it sufficiently different enough to withstand scrutiny.

Parody plays a factor. I think this design qualifies. I'm not sure about the priest.

Darquis wrote:Parody plays a factor. I think this design qualifies. I'm not sure about the priest.

I would think the priest is safe as he looks nothing like the Firefox logo.


Horray Wacky Wednesday, I'll be here all night! -badump!-

Re: The four Horsemen

The Four Horseman of The Apocalypse is an established piece of art, so I hesitate when I see it's use here. It needs to be a clear parody for it to work.

I my mind, this design's two derby competitors are both fails. One is just a straight up reinterpretation and the other (velociraptors)is too garish to wear. This design is almost there...

If I were the artist, I would color the horses according to tradition and I would give each Tubby the traditional weapon/implement for their respective role. IE, if Po was the Horseman of War, his wooden horse would be red and he would wield a two-handed great-sword.

Note: is Po male or female or both?

Re: Diabolical Sun

Yes! I love the menacing sun's outfit, complete with monocle and top hat. Such a gentleman with that moustache as well. Great textures on the earth, too!

Voted.

jmmbell1987 wrote:And no, I'm not looking to cause trouble. I never am. I saw fit to defend freiz. I haven't said anything incendiary.

Actually, to be fair, I had seen that you posted earlier, and confused you with llklocke, who also tried to use the Threadless shirt as a comparison. Apologies to you.

The constant searching of other online shirt sites to see if something might be a ripoff of another artist's work loses most of its usefulness when the similarities are as tenuous as they are between No1's design and the one on Threadless. Too many people seem to have taken this effort on as a cause and hobby, and it makes the threads a less pleasant place to be.

The fact that both designs feature panda's that are disproportionally larger than their surroundings, and that the artists each chose to title them based on a play on words is the limit of similarity. One is drawn somewhat realistically, and is engaged in combat with infantry. The other is striding over the skyline, with no weapons in sight, and is or a far greater proportion to the city than the Threadless shirt. The style is far from realistic in this design as well.

To try to suggest that the two are similar enough to constitute infringement would appear to be more than just a passing observation. It sure seemed to have been posted with the intent to create a response, either by the rejectificator or by other forum participants. Unless someone really felts that another artist's rights were being infringed upon, what's the point?

Again, the commentary above is not intended for you, but mostly to those who try a little too hard to disqualify others' work, or imply that they are guilty of unoriginal thinking or at least execution.

No1 is about as unique as they come. Nobody would accuse him of tracing or using a photo or someone else's vector art as the basis of his design. Those are the kind of violations that should be made public and potentially result in rejection. Not for choosing the same breed of animal and pun.

paigeg wrote:Sadly, it doesn't matter. No video game references allowed.

That's not a video game reference.

It's a wheel of cheese with a wedge cut out.

Yeah.

Because the moon is made out of cheese and the moon is in space with the planets and...

Oh, alright, it's PacMan...and he went all supernova on us. Didn't know Galactus had a pet, did you?

Re: Unexpected Error

This is why I use the Safari browser. A giant compass would never want to harm us

tascott02 wrote:This is why I use the Safari browser. A giant compass would never want to harm us

I remember trying to use a compass in girlscouts. "Why, hello strange dirt parking area in the middle of nowhere, I thought you were supposed to be the base. I wonder if I'm using this wrong. Crap it's getting dark..."

I can only imagine the horrors a giant compass would bring...

Re: I Bet It's Better There...V2

This reminds me of "I am Legend".