This is pretty speculatory on my part, but there's a guy that posted a fun take on the Murder Hornet fiasco and made a concept for Seattle's expansion franchise. All well and good, he acknowledges in a reply that it's "mostly borrowed elements that were altered and mashed together" (from here, it appears). But then the post gained a bit of traction and started making its way around Twitter. He's latched onto a bunch of the posts asking for credit and eventually was "forced" to upload the design to a site to sell merch, even though he really didn't want to. I don't get the impression that he was the original artist of the stock art but
Disagree...
http://wallpart.com/poster/creamer-s-sports-logos-community-ccslc-sportslogosnet-forums-413780372035
I mean, we had to see this coming, someone stealing the pandas, right?
On wow. You see hundreds of Coyotes concepts everywhere...but I haven't seen anything quite like this one. This is absolutely beautiful! The mixing of the colours of different eras works surprisingly perfectly. I think that all people are going to rip you know the font, but to me, I don't mind it at all. Phenomenal work.
I've found that if you want to see who said what click the x below the like button (on computer) it will show you who said the quote. Also, all you have to do is click the button you don't have to ignore anyone's signature. Or just hover over someone's username.
Nah, i thought the designs were solely by Harper K there, but the ideas and backstories were by Jimmy Lethal (Something like that?) and were then posted by him. A collaboration of sorts I guess, but the majority of the praise (at least on this forum) would be going to the designer there. Don't remeber is McElroy and Alexander posted the Seattle Sea Lions concept on this board or not, but from what I can tell, that's a better example.
To piggy-back off his "Did'nt expect to get this many views" quote, I highly doubt the Jamzy page had too many views at all. His stats here show that he had, what, 3? before May 25, when BMA posted it here on his ACFC concept. So no, no one was fooled, everyone went and looked at it knowing it was stolen.