Shadowstate

So after doing more research on the topic of "fan art" and what a copyright holder can, and cannot do with it, it appears that trying to go after the original copyright holder themselves over their use of your fan art for their own purposes is a futile effort. In fact, you might be screwing yourself over by doing so: According to US copyright law "A copyright owner can stop someone else from (1) copying, (2) distributing, (3) performing, or (4) displaying the characters without the permission of the owner. The owner also can stop someone from (5) creating "derivative works". A derivative work is a new work based on someone else's intellectua

So I was Googling the Ghtroc 720 ship, and when I do, the one I made here on Deviant Art usually pops up at the top under images. On a recent search however, I noticed a couple new images that have showed up linked back to Wookiepedia's article on Rey from The Farce Awakens and The Crap Jedi. Anyway, the style "looks damn familiar," so I clicked on them for a closer look. I found three new images of the ship, one buried in sand, and a couple flying around and I'll say it again, it "looks damn familiar." Now I didn't design the flying space turtle Ghtroc 720 myself, so I claim no ownership of it's design, but when I did my model, I added seve

Aside from my recent UFO models and the release of my unfinished Star Wars ships last month or so, I haven't been making any new 3d models and the reason for that are many; I been busy with work, when I have time off I been doing other stuff, I have to take care of my elderly mother who has declining health problems... yadda yadda. One major issue I have though has been with computer software. I use a Mac and the recent MacOS Mojave killed support for a lot of legacy software I been using. For instance I been using the same version of Photoshop for the past decade, "CS3". I bought CS3 like in 2010, through a school discount, paid like $150 f