A very strange journey of Geist (Patreon)

A while back I said I wanted to redesign a horse OC of mine. So a few days ago I was looking at references from the Spirit movie because I wanted to practice the style. And I come across these screencap pieces and I recognize them as my OCs, Geist and Falling Snow. Sure enough, the commentary named them as such.

I dig deeper and theres more screencap art/edits if her. There's like a whole story and a series of these movie edits of Geist on these adventures and drama I've never created for her. But it's been credited to me by name and I'm like "whoa what?" And some pieces have stated I was making a fan movie and Im german and Im like "WAIT WHAT?"

I can't find the source of these edits or who made them. But a lot of the Spirit Community all seem to think I made a fan movie. Some thought it was real and Geist was scrapped canon.

My name is credited because actual art thats mine has been stolen and posted on other sites and my name is still attached.

It's been weird. And a little upsetting. Someone stole my character and art and became popular. It makes me wonder how old these screencap edits are. How long has Geist had this secret life? 😂

I've been debating on making some kind of announcement in the community. I don't want people to claim these edits are mine. But I also don't want people to yell that I'm fake. On DevArt I was harassed constantly for stealing or being unoriginal. Now Geist is popular because she was stolen? There's some twisted irony here!

After seeing those edits I drew her again and it made me appreciate the old design I made for her. Followed by that are some of the pieces I found on pinterest and instagram. And then I had to find my original pieces because I was having a moment where I was like "I did create her, right? RIGHT?" 😂