Monkey Toys by Constantin Malkov

very cool. very natural looking. the background is just a bit 'busy' and detracts a bit from the main focus, but still, very nicely done!

I love monkeys. Nice work.

Good stuff Constantin..I like the monkeys but they would be creepy in a dark room..

If I understand what your saying then these monkeys are really old real life toys.
Then that makes Constantins picture all the more impressive not only for how closely they resemble them. But also for the type of detail going into the scene as well as a tribute to the toymaker.

Possibly your mistaking the scene to be a picture of those toys. I am fairly certain that he modeled them in a 3D program. As almost all of the other elements in the scene have FF produced textures on them. In which case he would have been referring to the copyright of the rendered scene.

If Constantin decided to sell 3d versions of the monkeys then I think you might have a case as to them resembling the monkees too much. But I am not sure of the details of that part of the law that type of point might fall under trademark.

True, I was only making a comment to

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I don't know who is the first author and was it based on a real toy or it's a artist's fantasy.

to let the artist know, that they are real wood toys. I'm also sure that Constantine model these in C4D and it's a good job and nice picture.