Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-218.191.29.208-20170219075351/@comment-178.202.191.21-20170223223141

Seriously, the "evidence" of tracing compared to the poses shown was vague enough to be negligible IMHO. Some poses are generally the same, and it is possible to look at how a pose looks like in real life and come up with a sprite that does have some similarities. But considering that people picked decided that  the "near front leg 'traced' from pic A, far front leg might have been traced (or not) from pic B, far hind leg probably traced from pic C and the near hind leg has a bit of a resemblance to pic D - and the back, if stretched in a certain direction, has a strong resemblance to pic E"... Uhm. Seriously? If you have a quadrupedal creature with certain dimensions and limbs of a similar build and look at it from the same perspective - chances are that even different photos may look like they've been "traced" from each other. Even if the creatures are of different species and the photos taken by different people in different parts of the world.

If we wanted to, I'm sure we could find pics for pretty much every single dragon sprite on DC that give the impression that the sprite might have been traced.