Your views on the co-creators

[Yabuturtle]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Some people are more creative-minded than commercial-minded. It's clear now in retrospect that Kevin was the "capitalist" and Pete was the "artist".

I see both sides of it. And I will say that anyone who gets involved in a commercial endeavor should expect certain things upfront. On the other hand, me personally, if I put a lot of work into creating a character or story, and then other people "messed with" it, I'd be furious, regardless of money. It's no longer "mine", at that point, it's been stolen and vandalized. And especially if there were aspects of the story or a particular character that were deeply personal, for one reason or another... nobody else would be able to execute it "correctly", because the personal aspect of it would be gone, the "Why" would be gone. And someone could justify it by saying, "No, it's just a new *version* of your character", to which I'd reply, "No, you're absolutely wrong, it's not the same character/story AT ALL because there were specific reasons I had for doing this, that, or the other, and now, it's broken, because the people who changed it didn't understand WHY certain things were important, and arrogantly pasted *their* nonsense on top of what I had done as if it wouldn't matter. So no, it's a completely different story/character now." I'd be pissed, honestly.

But yeah, that's the kind of thing a person needs to decide before they take the check. I agree. I *don't* agree that making arbitrary changes for the sheer "Why Not?" of it is harmless. Some people don't care how their art is represented and others really, really do. I've always created art for personal reasons, so while I wouldn't be opposed to getting paid for writing something, I'd never want anyone else to screw with what I'd done. Everyone's different. But they should be respected regardless of what side they fall on; it's their work.

I wouldn't care as long as people enjoyed it, which is what a great artist should do. Besides didn't he give permission to use the characters for the toys and animation. Didn't playmates and the tv producers asked them permission for it? What did he expect to happen? For them to stay totally the same? Art changes, just like everything else. Besides it's not like those new versions totally replace his versions. Ideas can't be destroyed. No matter how many different versions of the Turtles there are, the original turtles are still there that people can enjoy. People think that other versions of their characters somehow taint or destroy their own versions. They don't. So really I don't know why they get so worked up over something frivolous like that. The original will always be there no many different versions of TMNT there are.