Or if you do do a preview img with just the art, clip pieces, watermark the entire thing, put a solid fully opaque shop logo over a portion of it, something.

Because they'll take the art from the preview image and vectorize it for knockoffs, like here. Harder to do that to an image already on a shirt/blanket/patch than a clean jpg.

I've stopped posting non-sample renders of merch art for this exact reason tho....

In addition to the takedowns, u may want to ask ur manufacturer to ensure that they do not distribute or resell ur designs, else u will go elsewhere. And if u use a middleman, ensure they have a likewise understanding with their manu...

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Me telling myself the disintegrating snake adds to the overall effect /j

Funny thing to learn is that the white transfer foil is 5491262x more fragile than every metallic colorrrr so IT'S BEEN A PAIN SINCE THATS THE PREDOMINANT COLOR BUT. pretty

IT'S NOT PERFECT BUT IT'S MINEEE

AIEEEEE

Now, each species gets tweaks like squishiness and speed, but also the only overwritten event is a "I'm ready to grow and I grow into a..." Function. That way I can customize that to events or randomization!

Familiar species were already inheriting from a base familiar object, but I added a "familiar baby/child/adult" to set from inherited variables like age of growth.