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After showing the recent target render around a bit, it's been brought to my attention that I might run into some issues releasing the new animation in this form, this is mainly related to copyright, as the blue vixen in the animation is still a little too close to a certain Nintendo character. After getting some advice and doing a bit of research on character copyright, I had figured out that I needed to make a few more substantial changes than to just change some tattoos, eye color, and accessories, as it would still clash with the expression of a blue vixen in a bikini and loincloth. As making significant changes in the clothing would heavily delay the animation's release, the easier fix seemed to be a change of her base color. The best compromise I could find was to go with purple, as it's the closest color to her original tone. Apologies for this late change, but I need to make sure I'm not making myself vulnerable to any sort of copyright infringements, especially since this Patreon has grown quite large and the content has many eyes on it lately!

Due to this there's a slight knockback since I need to re-render frames worth 2 days, there won't be any significant delay to the animation though! Apologies for the changes again, but I hope they're understandable.

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Ehren

I think you should consider just making her her own character and stop trying to keep her even close to another character. Not trying to sound mean, but it just doesn't make sense that you are stressing about changing her but trying to keep her similar at the same time. I'm guessing that would also mean dropping the RAADD connection, but your animations stand well on their own anyway! The point is she can't be recognizable and unrecognizable at the same time, right?

KiTronics (edited)

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2026-09-06 00:00 I'd agree with ehren but in the end it is up to you if you want to have a more purple version of a certain char it's not going to bother me
2017-02-24 10:25

Little Fluff

She's not Krystal, she's your own original character, Blistal!

Mircea Kitsune (edited)

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2026-09-06 00:00 I think as long as you don't use the actual name of the character and aren't making a playable game, no one will really care. I still render her in the original design myself... would be legitimately shocked if anyone ever tried anything over that. If you want to be extra-safe though, that does totally make sense.
2017-02-24 12:35

Data

That's kind of a shame. I think not using the name of the character would be enough for them to not find it. I guess one could always play with the tint settings in VLC to get the desired blue vixen though.

Kilodyne

I agree with Ehren. Krystal is nice, but when you start making several thousand dollars a year on Krystal-adjacent art, I think there's need for concern. I know people working full time jobs that make less than what you appear to on this stuff. You can probably get away this for fan art and the occasional commission, but at this point you've arguably made a business out of it and prudence is warranted. I personally have no particular attachment to Krystal, so I welcome recolorations and new designs (or even completely new models if you want to go that direction).

Jahan Renor

... Honestly purple's my favorite color so I'M OK WITH THIS. >.>