Nads6969 Victim 62 - Starseed86 with special mention to the Sailor Moon Sacrifice fanmade OVA project
So apparently there was a fanmade OVA a while back called Sailor Moon Sacrifice, so the project called for a lot of animators and a lot of artists. One of those artists was Youtuber Starseed86, who produced this piece of artwork as credited to them on the Sailor Moon Sacrifice tumblr:
https://sailormoonsacrifice.tumblr.com/post/160702031872/a-few-selective-art-pieces-from-our-former-artist
And when Ms. Stepputat produced this:
https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/040-The-Warrior-and-The-Pacifist-459161513
Someone noticed that the work was familiar:
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/459161513/3495526141
Of course, this gets ignored. So this person did some searching and turned up a link to the original piece (it’s gone from DA now; it redirected to sailormoonsacrifice.deviantart.com)
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/459161513/3495532970
The exchange is certainly a treat. After getting called out for tracing this work, Ms. Stepputat pulls the “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” shtick. I like this person’s response:
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/459161513/3496223412
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/459161513/3497727439
“I don’t care that she traces… I care that she says she absolutely doesn’t trace, and doesn’t ask permission first when it’s original art, and rarely credits.”
She reused this trace for this (flipped horizontally):
https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/NSG-The-Heart-and-The-Core-293982673
https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/NSG-Royal-Sisters-Sleeping-731565739
Seems to be traced from a still from Sailor Moon Sacrifice:
Here’s a close-up/better shot:
