Original Patching
Unless you take Michael Finley's face off his skull, nothing is original. Moving already patched fsh images is not suggested, but it's not much different than using a the same picture and resizing it. As a matter of speculation,
EA Sports did not bring in 400 players and take pictures especially for the game, one might even say they used such resources as CNNSI.com or media guides. No picture is exclusive to any patcher, of course the patches will look simular, of course people will say "You stole my patch" but look at these illiustrations and you can say
"Hey Tony Huml's patches are ripoffs!"
But most likely he just used the same photo. I say, do whatever you like to make a face your way. Releasing it as your own work could become Questionable. But to whomever thinks they have exclusive rights to a photo or patch idea, they are wrong, only the photographer and/or owner of the photo can say that.
Always try to be original, but you can only do what you can with the current photos available. Try an advanced Google Search for older and newer photos that may be available. I just recently found a page that had around 30 photos from 1996 and these babies were nice. |
