
I don’t think they’ve been around the block before with overlays.

Because animators definitely copy off screenshots of other movies to make The Lion King and is perfectly legit referencing. Dur.
It all boils down to how you use your resources. Whether it’s referencing to see how lines are laid on your subject so you can draw your subject on model in different poses, or bad habit referencing which is basically copying line for line and calling the finished copy yours.

A group dedicated to mostly lion king recolor FCs LOL
There’s like, only one or two originally drawn characters that aren’t Nala or Simba recolors.
A purple Simba or blue Kiara is not an original character. You’re just recoloring for recoloring sake and giving it a background that’s just as uncreative as the recolored character. You’re not putting effort into the character to make different personality traits that stand apart from the rest of the cast.
My favorite one is the “Artist” is not a job LOL
Without art we wouldn’t have movies, cartoons, shows, commercials, Magazines, newspapers etc etc etc
I did some comparison between the two and OHMFG she did go full circle. I took the colors from both characters and put them side by side to see the difference and it’s 1-10% between the HSV sliders. The top colors are Sarfi’s, the bottom colors belong to Basa.
Basa source (x)