As a big fan of both Smash Bros and furries, I have a group of furry characters I've designed movesets for if they were in a fake Smash Bros style game. The pictures I want to post are a series of the characters, their moves, in game icons (character select, percentage counter, etc), and alternate colors.

This is my problem. The icons and colors are traces of the characters. I read the rules and saw traces are not allowed, but I was not taking credit for the artwork in any way, only the choice of colors on the alt skins. I had planned to post the original post as a parent post, but the trace rule has me worried. Would this idea be ok and how would I go about doing it?

a trace is probably fine as long as it’s high quality...especially considering you’re tracing screenshots from a game (presumably) and not another artist’s work. A link to your work vs. the original would be helpful as well.

Dyrone said:
a trace is probably fine as long as it’s high quality...especially considering you’re tracing screenshots from a game (presumably) and not another artist’s work. A link to your work vs. the original would be helpful as well.

The game is fake. The trace is of the artist's work for the sake of making recolors. That's why I'm so hesitant. It's an edit, but they specifically said not to do what I want to.

I hadn't done this yet, but I was thinking about making 8bit sprites of the characters... but I'm not a good enough artist myself to make new images of the characters for the icons.

Oh, I thought you were taking screens of Smash Bros and tracing them.

So this artist specifically told you not to do it or just as a blanket statement? You could always ask the artist to see if your work specifically is acceptable to them.

No one has said anything to me cus its something I've been doing on my own time, but now I want to share it.

I'll probably just make the 8bit versions of the characters, but I might still get backlash from it..? I'm hesitant of asking because I'm sure I wont get responses.

Just friendly reminder that this website is mainly for storing furry artwork. We do have community features of course, but the posts themselves should be mostly about that and follow currently in place guidelines. Giving it a read should give you at least general idea if something is good thing to upload: https://e621.net/wiki/show/uploading_guidelines

Stuff like bases are already deleted when seen, where someone buys really cheaply made generic lineart and colors it themselves. At that point it's not anymore about the artwork itself, but just same artwork is being used over and over again just to fill in buyers own colors into it. Even if coloring regularly made lineart, these are considered as edits where only usually best one is kept if multiple are uploaded and they are handled with guidelines for edits specifically.

If I'm reading this correctly, it's somewhat hard to get grasp on what you are specifically asking as you haven't linked much examples, but feels like you are using some fan made smash bros like game which has artwork made in itself to be able to customize characters colors? At that point the answer for upload would be definitive no, that would be againts so many guidelines starting from screencaps to edits.

As for 8-bit versions, keep in mind minimum resolution (200x200) and general quality (that it looks more like proper pixel artwork rather than really tiny ms paint doodle).

Lol yeah, I'm not being very clear. I'll try to restart.

This game does NOT exist. What I want to do is show some furry characters I've taken a liking to and make smash bros style move sets based off of their character. The pictures I want to upload show the character's move info, the character's alternate colors, as well as the character in the percentage/damage counter you see on the bottom of the screen during a match.

My problem is how I got the pictures of the characters. I traced a picture of the character in order to be able to recolor them and put them in the icons (damage counter, etc). I in no way intend to take credit; in fact I planned to linking the original picture as a parent picture and link the site for the owner of the character. But the rules said no tracing, but I was unsure the context. The 8bit idea was a theory on how to show the alternate colors/icons without the traces.

If you like, I can send you an example of one of the character's pictures to show what I mean.

We do not allow traces of other people's art, period. What you're doing is tracing other people's art and then using those traces to create game mock ups. That would not be acceptable.

Ok. Thank you!