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PA Imitators? Apprentices? Pseudonyms?

RobotHeadArtRobotHeadArt Posts: 917
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Has anyone else noticed that Fred Winkler Art, a normally highly prolific PA has stopped publishing?  I think the last new item was in December.  About that time though, a new PA named Emrys started making characters identical to FWArt's style and the same icons for materials/settings.

Today, a new PA WindField released a hair that looks exactly in the style of OutOfTouch and even has morph dials named exactly the same as how OutOfTouch names them.

So are these imitators, apprentices, or new pseudonyms?

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  • MimicMollyMimicMolly Posts: 2,194
    I know that with illustrators, they often share techniques with their peers, so it starts looking very similar. (For DAZ, I often mix up Pretty3D, Mytilus, & B-Rock.)
  • OdaaOdaa Posts: 1,548

    To me, WindField's modeling looks more like Goldtassel or SWAM, although the texturing certainly looks like OOT.

    When it comes to characters, I suspect alot of the overlap comes from PAs using the same merchant resources or reference images for skins.

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,694
    edited April 2019
    RobotHeadArt said:

    Has anyone else noticed that Fred Winkler Art, a normally highly prolific PA has stopped publishing?  I think the last new item was in December.  About that time though, a new PA named Emrys started making characters identical to FWArt's style and the same icons for materials/settings.

    Today, a new PA WindField released a hair that looks exactly in the style of OutOfTouch and even has morph dials named exactly the same as how OutOfTouch names them.

    So are these imitators, apprentices, or new pseudonyms?

    I suspect some artists DID that. Dissociatiive Idendity Disorder allows people to reinvent a different version of themselves.

    Edit. I have several emails and could but don't use them to be an alter me, because one of me is enough.

    Post edited by ArtAngel on
  • SummerhorseSummerhorse Posts: 684

    This model lists both Winkler and Emrys :https://www.daz3d.com/kichiro-hd-for-lee-8

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    A noob making DAZ products literally has next to nothing as way of reference in how to make DAZ products so I think it's reasonably a DAZ PA noob would pick a PA whose organizational style they like and use that style to organize their own products.

    PA needn't even consent, it's just a style and they get copied all the time.

  • cassandracassandra Posts: 28

    Good question! I have been wondering the same! I recently got a FWArt character elsewhere and I was surprised to see that the icon style was indeed Emrys - and when checking it, it did say Emrys. My guess is it is a new pseudonym - especially since FWArt isn't publishing anymore.

    It is a nice way to do things instead of just changing the PA name. Makes it easier to actually find things :)

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,060

    Correct, Emrys IS Fred Winkler.

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