>>58363360Because the arguments being made are clearly coming from people who haven't worked an actual job outside of McDonalds before. Either underage or inexperienced, either way they don't have very valuable input.
>>58363365>it requires the stupidity and/or complicity of dozens of people to reach the final pointNo, just one person; the one who gave the reference. Everyone else is just doing a job, it's not that deep. What reason would a freelance artist have to cross reference a source/task given to them OFFICIALLY by TCP? In retrospect it looks obvious, but there's no reason to suspect TCP would give you fanart to redraw as a job.
>>58363370Because the other side of that coin is they not only burn their bridges with that artist, who they obviously value and want to keep working with given their past relationship with her, but also damages their integrity with other artists present and future. Not only that, but they actually cause harm to the career of said artist and give her grounds to seek legal action for defamation which would be an even larger scandal since that'd be made public unless handled privately outside of court which they almost certainly don't want to deal with. If they fuck her over when she did no wrong, it's more likely to blow up in their face in a much more impactful way than just ripping off the bandage and fixing their mistake rightfully.
>>58363394Immersives are different from the regular illustrations because of the animations. So they involve teams larger than just the artist, and most likely those teams are working on the animation before the art is completed. So you're comparing entirely different pipelines. The physical TCG likely has different time requirements as well. Look at every single immersive - you'll see most of them actually lean into the stylization of the artists and are instead more sanitized "official" on-model styled artworks.
