Beware: CaptainRaidriar/sybilch

https://artists-beware.livejournal.com/1011530.html

 WHO: CaptainRaidriar  

WHERE: Furaffinity

WHAT: Digital Artwork

WHEN: 07/02/2018 — 08/29/2018

EXPLAIN: 

I would like to report the user CaptainRaidriar on Furaffinity for plagiarizing another artist's commission. I ordered a commission from her back in July where she worked on it for a few weeks. I was satisfied with the finished product and gave my approval to upload the piece. Just recently I have been told by someone that it was a plagiarized piece in which she traced someone else's piece. It then became clear just how she ripped me off and broke copyright of copying someone else's work. Instead of being over dramatic I brought the issue up with her directly, calling her out on the commission. She believes she had done nothing wrong and that I was just complaining to get a free piece of artwork. I overlayed the two and it is very clear that the lines meet up perfectly. She claims that she used the YCH by the artist as reference and it was just coincidence that the line met up.    She has just recently removed the piece from her gallery because of heavy backlash from several users, but I have thrown it into a dropbox with comparison to the two pieces and included a DA link where it hasn't been removed. The artwork she traced is uploaded a month before, and the YCH before then.

  ~ NSFW Warning ~ 

Raidriar’s Piece:b https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvdwzag1hk9cr08/CaptainRaidriar Piece.png?dl=0

-DA Upload: https://www.deviantart.com/captainraidriar/art/Keepin-Warm-756501830  

-FA Upload: She has removed it.

Original Piece: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27665635/

Traced Overlay: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zur21m3oge7n5fa/Traced Overlay.jpg?dl=0

After discussing the piece with her she only offered a $25 refund and to redo the piece or a maximum of a $31 refund. I paid $65 for the commission so I wouldn't even receive half so I declined. She claims she will also not refund me because the piece is finished.

Proof of the commission agreement, payment, and partial refund can be found below. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7wmxtg4cjoxi2mq/AAAlE_8os3Jg3DUZDuznYAi2a?dl=0

Update 1/14/22

I did some digging and wasn't to hard to find that Raidriar had an alt account on FA and a new (active) account on twitter going by the name of Sybilich. She had the link to the alterative FA account on her DA which goes by the old name CaptainRaidriar.

As seen here below this is her DA with a screenshot of her advertising this alterative account on FA.

-www.dropbox.com/s/ok1pgdrja8yc…

And a screenshot on that account has her active twitter as well.

-www.dropbox.com/s/iuoug43b2vak…

-www.dropbox.com/s/l6f2cvhbu6tg…

Due to this evidence I can confidently say that Sybilich is CaptainRaidriar's alt account and will be updating the beware accordingly.