Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1738746-20180702064433/@comment-94.254.135.19-20180704194606

The cervine dragon was not actually proven to have been traced, only its S2 to have been photo-referenced. Just because most of artists can't reference well, doesn't mean nobody has the skill to or to make perfect proportions of some animal, even the S2 wasn't perfectly lined up and in pixel it was even more likely to be proportioned correctly without need of tracing - drawing small things is easier here if you have the eye. And a correctly drawn leg is NOT a proof of tracing - it's even further from a proof. We lost a skillfuly executed sprite just because of bias and suspicion. The only way to proove sb had to rely on tracing is to have them livestream or uncut-record their drawing process of sth similar and see them fail no matter how hard they try to succeed. If they succeed tho, it's a proof they can draw and the sprite is not traced. But the artirts/s werent' given that chance to proove themselves... Anf just because they can't record or livestream is also no proof against them, those things need rather decent device or connection. And just because someone started off as breaking certain rules when they were young and ignorant, doesn't mean they would never learn about them and grow up to following them later. As if nobody made mistakes due to ignorance or rebelious attitude typical at youth before...

And what agreement? TJ made the mistake of pre-releasing the July-mistake dragon, and he alone should take all the responsibility of it, not the people who worked on the dragon he accidentally released sooner than planned. (As if he couldn't just let it be, he's got so many good dragons waiting for a chance to get released, it's not like he wouldn't have anything left to release if he released one extra in July... ) No agreement should be necessary if he once chose this dragon for a release (he must have if it was to well in his database that it released itself before the date he intended...) and was the onyl one who made any mistake here.