Is it safe to use renderhub and renderosity assets

bumbiee.soft

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Some assets on sites like renderhub are created based on famous character in games or celebrities. Is it safe to use them in a visual novel gamem, Or I need to obtain a license or permission for original author or the person.
 

Doorknob22

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I'm not a lawyer but I'd recommend against using real people's likeness in your renders. Here are some considerations.

1. The law is against you. You are not allowed to use another person's likeness, especially for porn when you can't honestly claim you're just parodying them.

2. No one is likely to ever found out that you did use someone's image. The internet is huge and people have other problems on their head than looking for random people doing their porn images.

3. Even if a celeb did find out you have rendered their image fucking dogs, the reasonable response would be to ignore it and let it drown in the overall internet noise, for fear of invoking the , i.e. if they do come after you, everyone will see the images of which they'll otherwise be oblivious to.

4. Finally is the human factor: people are unpredictable. It might be unlikely for the celeb to find out you have used her image and not very wise to come after you, but you might get unlucky and really piss someone off, a person who will come after you regardless of the damage it may do to them. Do you with to take that risk? Your call.

So: the wisest way to use celeb figures is for your personal "amusement" only. The second wisest is to share them anonymously, without associating them with anything related to profit (thus tying them to you). Finally, you can take a risk and try to make money and hope everything will be all right. It might turn out fine and it might turn out very very bad.

Good luck!
 

bumbiee.soft

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well I don't want to use celebrities or game models, but it is hard for me to find out whether the model is copied from an actual person or game character. I generally check the comments and they don't even mention that. I was about to buying one and i just found out that in the last second so removed items from my cart.

I totally agree with you about the moral point of it.

Thank you very much
 

Doorknob22

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well I don't want to use celebrities or game models, but it is hard for me to find out whether the model is copied from an actual person or game character. I generally check the comments and they don't even mention that. I was about to buying one and i just found out that in the last second so removed items from my cart.

I totally agree with you about the moral point of it.

Thank you very much
Use for reference.
 
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bumbiee.soft

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Use for reference.
Unfortunately, a model that i was using was in the thread so i deleted something around 20 renders (that cost me to lose two weeks and money). now, I am checking both AI and the thread to become ensure about not using any character that look likes a celebrity or game character. Also I am not going to use renderosity and renderhub as they are many characters there based on real people. Also find out that a few creators on daz3d are doing the same thing, take HID3D characters as an example.

May I ask for a favor? for following characters I checked both AI and thread. I didn't find anything. So, I thing they are safe to be used. and they are in a good quality (the one that I expect) Can you let me know how do you think about them:

Rozy HD for Genesis 8 Female
CB Eliza HD For Genesis 8 and 8.1 Female
Clementine HD for Genesis 8.1 Female

I am in short of budget and time, so I need to be sure about that. Also I am looking for any suggestion for good looking character what I am missing is:

  • a doctor character in her 30, who has a nice looking and kind face (not that sexy)
  • a dominant mayor character again in her 30, she will be included in fedom scenes. so she needs to look like a very serious one. and a bit curvy and voluptuous
 

TessaXYZ

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Why are you just using characters out of the box? Morph them a bit, make them your own, and you'll never have to worry about this even if the asset is supposedly based on a real person.
 

bumbiee.soft

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Why are you just using characters out of the box? Morph them a bit, make them your own, and you'll never have to worry about this even if the asset is supposedly based on a real person.
By morph do you mean body or face morph, and to be honest when I morph them they don't look like good anymore. I tried to use character creator to morph them too again it was a failure
 

TessaXYZ

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By morph do you mean body or face morph, and to be honest when I morph them they don't look like good anymore. I tried to use character creator to morph them too again it was a failure
Both. Just takes practice to figure out what looks good.
 
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