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* special note: the Fallout Vault dude/girl is only for demonstration purposes (to showcase my art style and sprite quality)

Solid-Head wrote: Out of curiosity, would you do the same with coding or scripting ?

Accensus wrote:

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EDIT: I have talked to Nash and the issue has been resolved. I have received a full refund despite only asking for half, given that the full spritesheet was delivered on time. I do appreciate the gesture. What happens in the future with other people is up to Nash. Do not base your decisions entirely on the single experience described in the rest of the post, as it may not be 100% accurate due to possible misunderstandings, but do keep it in mind.

Original post:
I wasn't sure whether or not to make this post, but I'm afraid I should.

Back in April/May I commissioned Nash to make a double-resolution mugshot. I received the files sometime in late June. So far so good. However, there were some issues with the graphics such as some frames looking off in-game due to the hair being obviously copy-pasted and scaled up (bilinear filter gave it away) or other frames not being as good as I had hoped for, but thankfully had only fairly minor issues. I reported all of those issues and did get feedback from Nash stating that he'll take care of them eventually and that he had something else going on. It's October now. The fixes never came. I am glad that a friend of mine volunteered to fix them because I had not used that mugshot for months due to those issues.

All in all, I paid $120 for this. After discussing this with friends, I've slowly come to realize that I got stiffed hard, given the quality of the end result and mainly the fact that Nash bailed on me. Pretty much all of them had one thing to say: "bro you got ripped off." An interesting thing I learned is that this isn't the first time he's done this. However, this is second-hand information and as such should be taken with a grain of salt, but given the circumstances and the fact the these people do not know each other or share friends, I am not outright discarding the possibility of this being true.

Would I commission Nash again? No. Would I recommend him? Inclined to say no, unless he changes his ways and maybe adjusts his pricing a little. Don't get me wrong, I don't think everything should be dirt cheap, but the quality, in my personal opinion, is not worth the $75 base price. There are other artists in this community who'd do a much better job for the price that I paid. I just wish I knew them at the time.

As for why I'm posting this now (and at all) instead of back then, two reasons: A) out of courtesy because I've known Nash for a while and B) I was hoping I'd get the fixes delivered eventually. I now believe turning a blind eye to all this would only enable such behaviour in the future.