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I don’t mean to start anything with you man, but to claim the new sculpt isn’t better is crazy. To point out the fact they “stole” the sculpt, continuously, would be to admit it to be better no? No one questions where a bad sculpt came from genuinely.
I understand you don’t like Howard’s business plan or his personality that you seem to know to a T. It’s when you take it to the lengths of undermining product that artists are making, through a biased lense. I don’t care about Howard or the other CEOs of his competing companies, I care about Ledger Joker in sixth scale, enough.
To be fair, given how your response had a little bite to it, and given the heated exchange we had in the past, I’d say you DID mean to start something…which is why I offered a truce. And seeing as you are willing to bury things with me, I’d say we’re off to a decent start.
As for my rebuttal:
No. I do not think the new sculpt is better, nor did I say it was anywhere near bad, NOR did I insinuate they stole anything. I specifically said they purchased it and repurposed it based off of what YOU told me a while back. Forgive me for not remembering the artists name, but this portrait was from that sculptor no? And you told us this didn’t you? Or was it someone else? Now I’m all mixed up.
![Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile: 😅](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png)
But let’s run with that: So in a way, it was outsourced and the reason why I use that as a point to give HT a hard time is because they’re HT, THE biggest 1/6 company out there and they still struggled to get ledger right with their own ‘in-house’ team.
I despise H.Chan and the people RUNNING the company, but I’ve always respected their artists. I have criticized their work, which is normal and as long as it’s constructive and not toxic, it should be encouraged. But I’ve never crapped on the talent…save for JC Hong. And that’ll lead into this:
Why am I not feeling this portrait?
Because to my eyes, it carries the essence of ledger. Which is where JC comes in. If the origin of this sculpt is true, here are my thoughts:
1-it WAS an AWESOME sculpt.
2-but once HT got their hands on it and repurposed it by adding articulated eyes and the HT style paint app, JC Hong just couldn’t resist and just HAD to inject HIS brand of direction into it: by making it idealized.
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