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Why do you think this isn't what happened? She's a great artist who clearly doesn't need to copy anything; and immersives are different from normal arts because they require a whole external team outside of the artists themselves to bring to life. So it makes sense from an organizational perspective to have the exact framing of the artwork at hand so that the teams can work in parallel instead of being bottlenecked by each other. Coupled with the fact that TPC gains absolutely nothing by sticking their neck out for a contracted artist - if anything they would benefit greatly and have more than legally sound ground to terminate their relationship with said artist and even sue for reputational damages they caused the company. Instead they doubled down and hired her for the redraws. They were hesitant to dive deeper into the statement of what happened until specifically the heat started getting hard on the artist herself, so they obviously felt they had to elaborate more out of obligation so put a second statement out when they didn't need to if it was truly the artist's fault.

Stop thinking from the perspective of a teenager on twitter who's never worked a job before and start thinking from the perspective of a corporation that has revenue to protect.