>>58363109How would she know it was stolen artwork? She improved the proportion on the head/talons/body so it's not like she literally just traced it 1/1. If you don't can't see the difference, it's understandable why you'd assume an intern could do the same .
She's not going to just disobey them if they say they want her to make that drawing better. It's possible that even other immersive are just straight up traces/redraws of what they assumed to be entirely internal sketches and images.
We don't know the full details, but the point is there's really no reason for them to go out of their way to protect a contracted artist if they were wronged by them. Given the response, it's more likely the opposite - they wronged the artist. Unless you can come up with a reason why they wouldn't just cut ties completely with her. There can be an argument made that as a PR issue they didn't want to publicly execute her, but they went beyond just covering up the problem and straight up publicly exonerated her AND re-hired her.
I'm curious, have you worked a corporate job before? It should be very apparent from someone who has that upper management makes stupid "cost saving" decisions all the time that end up affecting the teams below them in ways that actually increase costs when they fuck up. When looking at all the evidence presented and the artist's previous works, I think it's very clear someone managing the art team thought they found an efficient method to save time and money but fucked up. The contracted artists are just doing what they're paid to do, and if she really did fuck up then TCP has no reason to stick their neck out for her and damage their own reputation by taking the fall for her literally scamming them.
