Has your work ever been stolen?

[Jeff Mottle]

This topic seems to come up often in our industry and it was recommended to me that I do a story about this for the site. If your work has ever been stolen, please post the situation and email me your contact information to jmottle@cgarchitect.com I'll see if there is something I can put together.

 

Cheers,

Jeff

[neil poppleton]

I have received a cv with a portfolio which was excellent, shame it was evermotion images except one image which stood out a mile and was bad, and that one turned out to be his.......bad boy....

[kippu]

i was shocked to see one of my works at a very reputed 3d companies website and who was like a mentor to me ,it was then realised somebody had used my renders to get a job and they put it on their site .... i constantly see my works in my local other websites , you cannot just trace them out all

[Ernest Burden III]

Years ago I had a photo lab in NY pitch me with a selection of images they had printed--yep, one of them was mine. The bastards were making extra copies of stuff customers were having reproduced for their own 'portfolio' without asking first or crediting. This is not nearly as bad as another artist (or faux-artist) showing your work and saying it is their creation, though. Still, stealing it is.

[ihabkal]

I went to a prospective client when I returned from the US to Lebanon in 2006 to show my work, he told me he already had an artist, he showed me his brochure, one of the images was one I made in college around 6 years before.

in 2000 I let a college friend borrow my porfolio to show to a prospective client, he made a copy of it, he later started his own daddy funded company and advertisied his services with my work. He now runs a sweatshop with unhappy employees at child labor prices and his daddy covers his losses, undercutting the entire Lebanese market.

[BVI]

I went to a prospective client when I returned from the US to Lebanon in 2006 to show my work, he told me he already had an artist, he showed me his brochure, one of the images was one I made in college around 6 years before.

in 2000 I let a college friend borrow my porfolio to show to a prospective client, he made a copy of it, he later started his own daddy funded company and advertisied his services with my work. He now runs a sweatshop with unhappy employees at child labor prices and his daddy covers his losses, undercutting the entire Lebanese market.

 

That could be a movie plot!

[gmlealll]

I have also seen my work publish in several website, but the funniest or du… was a few years ago where I use to work, some guy apply for a job in the same company I was working with some of my images…

at list he should have know I worked there…

 

Guillermo Leal,

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

...a graphic department director once told me that he didn't mind much if his work was stolen. He considered it flattery.

[Tim Nelson]

I try to keep my work quality just under the threshold where somebody would want to steal it.

[jinsley]

I try to keep my work quality just under the threshold where somebody would want to steal it.

 

haha... nice.

 

I have received a few portfolios from locals with tons of Evermotion images included... a lot of people don't realize how much time we spend studying other illustrators work to improve our own.

 

And when they are busted, they usually reply "That's what I COULD produce if ..."

[Justin Hunt]

I try to keep my work quality just under the threshold where somebody would want to steal it.

 

I think I do this unintentionaly

 

jhv

[wasteland giant]

haha... nice.

 

I have received a few portfolios from locals with tons of Evermotion images included... a lot of people don't realize how much time we spend studying other illustrators work to improve our own.

 

And when they are busted, they usually reply "That's what I COULD produce if ..."

 

 

well, then there' the here's an evermotion scene... i'll just move stuff around and call it a day. See a lot of this now.

[BVI]

well, then there' the here's an evermotion scene... i'll just move stuff around and call it a day. See a lot of this now.

 

I've found there is an entire new generation of template lighters who reuse premade scene lighting setups.