Well you have to appreciate that you’ve modelled an actress who has been famously (within the CG community) created, praised, posted & printed by a very talented character artist.
Yes, she’s a real person BUT by choosing to recreate the exact same shot that Max Wahyudi chose you’ve opened yourself up to a comparison of his work…
Sorry pal. but you made it for yourself. What I told, is that it LOOKS LIKE A RIP OFF. Why, because you made just the same shot. Anyone creating a Mona Lisa must consider that his work will be compared to the original. Especially if it is just the same pose, and color, etc. Everybody singing Queen must consider that his performance will be compared to Freddie Mercury. So I don’t understand your upset. You are right, that you made it for the public, and I wouldn’t even mention Max’ name, if you didn’t post the image so similar to his. And yes, in that case, it’s LOOKS like a rip-off.
If you wanted to show YOUR skills, you would had to choose totally different poses, clothings, etc. You are talented guy, so you don’t need to imitate other guys work.
“there are people that actually put love in there what they are doing, how do they feel if someone said he rip the others work when they know in there bottom of the heart they didn’t?”
Everybody here I think doing this with love. But since the similarity is very obvious, and to be honest Max’ version is better, it is natural reaction, to mention that. Delete that image from the post of yours, and less people will complain.
and the pose and smile is original from maxedwin , you cant find the photo like that, even tho the person is real. 
but anyway welcome to modern art community, my friend
hope you like it peace
Yeah, proper credit should always be given if you were inspired from it and wanted to duplicate the piece. But people do it all the time with replicating someone’s art. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen someone try to duplicate a sculpture they’ve seen, or a painting they loved. I’ve seen countless Frazetta dupes of his Death Dealer. Is it wrong? No. Of course not. But credit should be given when it’s done.
I think this looks better than most can do. There’s still issues with it since we have to compare with the original, but it’s a great effort. Mainly what I see wrong is in the lips. Something seems off about the bottom lip.
The smile was done by using this references.
[attach=113788]smiles.jpg[/attach]
The pose was done by using a combination btw these two pictures:
[attach=113789]pose.jpg[/attach]
I’m not upset but I don’t like to be judged like this. My goal was to recreate the original character not a copy.
But I give fullcredits to MaxEdWin for his work since he was the original actor who created in 3d first.
People started to compare my work with Max work starting from the first head so I had to recreate another style.
but this doesn’t interest me anymore, I want to concentrate on another project
if you feel better you may close this topic, remove the pictures or continue on topic
p.s sorry for the linked images this will not happen again
