hi, as a mutual of gecko i wanted to respond to this in a way that was fair and state my opinion to your comment, i understand my judgement might be clouded because i look up to and support geckos but i wanted to put in my input as someone whose had their ocs copied a multitude of times and as a mutual of him T_T3
i want to start off with the first example, i don't think anything about these characters is similar except for the general color palette and having darker hair+blue skin. both designs are fairly simple and the only resemblance is dark hair, blue skin and the color palette. the eyes are different, the skin markings are different, the tail is different and the first character is humanoid when gecko's adopt looks more anthro/monstery.
the second example i can definitely see similarities but i don't believe they were intentional. as i was colorpicking gecko's adopt i noticed that there was a fuzzy filter over his adopt and i believe he might've made the adopt inspired by the backrooms? possibly. i've seen many gradient ocs with similar colors and accents and even if geckos did take inspiration i don't think it was necessarily intentional. the similarities i saw were: the gradient, multiple red eyes and claws. but other than that i believe the designs differ enough on their own, gecko's adopt has more markings and a different tail and species type completely. both designs are just too simple to say but i don't think geckos copied this oc.
i honestly think this is a misunderstanding that would've been more appropriate by contacting the owners of the ocs or geckos first, when i noticed my ocs got copied i would've rather had someone dm me about it first than commenting on the artist/oc's profile. i apologize for butting in aswell but i think the way you approached this was unnecessary and unfair.
also with how many designs were in the batch there are bound to be similarities with other characters, there's millions of characters on toyhouse and almost no concept is unique on it's own anymore, there will always be characters that are similar in color palette or general theme but it doesn't always mean they're copied ;;
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hi, as a mutual of gecko i wanted to respond to this in a way that was fair and state my opinion to your comment, i understand my judgement might be clouded because i look up to and support geckos but i wanted to put in my input as someone whose had their ocs copied a multitude of times and as a mutual of him T_T3
i want to start off with the first example, i don't think anything about these characters is similar except for the general color palette and having darker hair+blue skin. both designs are fairly simple and the only resemblance is dark hair, blue skin and the color palette. the eyes are different, the skin markings are different, the tail is different and the first character is humanoid when gecko's adopt looks more anthro/monstery.
the second example i can definitely see similarities but i don't believe they were intentional. as i was colorpicking gecko's adopt i noticed that there was a fuzzy filter over his adopt and i believe he might've made the adopt inspired by the backrooms? possibly. i've seen many gradient ocs with similar colors and accents and even if geckos did take inspiration i don't think it was necessarily intentional. the similarities i saw were: the gradient, multiple red eyes and claws. but other than that i believe the designs differ enough on their own, gecko's adopt has more markings and a different tail and species type completely. both designs are just too simple to say but i don't think geckos copied this oc.
i honestly think this is a misunderstanding that would've been more appropriate by contacting the owners of the ocs or geckos first, when i noticed my ocs got copied i would've rather had someone dm me about it first than commenting on the artist/oc's profile. i apologize for butting in aswell but i think the way you approached this was unnecessary and unfair.
also with how many designs were in the batch there are bound to be similarities with other characters, there's millions of characters on toyhouse and almost no concept is unique on it's own anymore, there will always be characters that are similar in color palette or general theme but it doesn't always mean they're copied ;;
8 months, 10 days ago Edited 10:07 pm