Celebrity Look-a-Likes for 3D figures Part 4

rokkr · February 5

maikdecker said:

rokkr said:

Haruchai said:

rokkr said:

Are those items listed as "original creations" canon (i.e., confirmed by the author)? I know many listed celebrities are just speculation, and I get it (though I think there should be a note stating that), but, if this is the case for the "original creations", I think they should be listed as "unknown" and not "original creations."

'Original creations' means that they are not based on anyone but are original characters by artists who normally do look-likes to help with misidentification

I know this, but I wanted to know if each of those was confirmed as an original creation by the respective artist or if it's a speculation.

Considering that in most cases the identification of a figure as a "celebrity" works only with one promo picture and only when one closes one eye and blinks with the other, the designation of "original creation" would be way more fitting for many more so called celebrity lookalikes figures. And "unknown" would mean, that we should every figure made by some of those PAs so be modeled after some "celebrity", which obviously isn't the case. So imho "original creation" is a much more fitting definition.

Of course you are free to contact each and every artist yourself to make sure about a figure being modeled after some celebrity and to what extent if it is important for you.

Well... I wasn’t debating the abstract semantic definition of "original creation." Obviously, in some sense, all models here are original. But given that this thread is dedicated to identifying celebrity lookalikes—and that "original creation" in this context means a character not based on a real person—what I meant was: have these so-called "original creations" been confirmed as such by their authors?

This is especially relevant when dealing with artists known for making celebrity lookalikes, like HID3D or Vicey3D. By "unknown," I meant "unrecognized" rather than inherently unknowable. If the authors haven’t confirmed that these characters labeled as "original creations" truly are original, then calling them that is mere speculation. In that case, "unknown" or "unrecognized" (or whatever term best captures the idea since the meaning matters more than the exact wording) would be more appropriate.