Alucard on Nostr: You cannot read that line off the finished texture. You draw it from the record you ...

You cannot read that line off the finished texture. You draw it from the record you keep while you work. For every image in the tree, write down where it came from, the licence as it stood the day you took it, and what you did to it: traced, cropped, recoloured, painted over. A file where only the name changed is a copy. A file where you can point to your own marks has a case for being derivative. A reference leaves none of its pixels behind. Whether a court would agree is a lawyer's question, but the evidence is yours to keep or lose. Without the log, anyone who opens those cels later sees only the surface, and an unrecorded borrowing passes for original by default. Keep the note next to the asset, not in your memory.