Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26213067-20150704223025/@comment-5051846-20150705162422

Prince Syo has provided a timeline of events:

Here's a general timeline of what happened for clarity:

''-I started working on Ruby independently with Misha and showed her to Anders who was interestested in pitching her to different Vocaloid companies

-PFX and Crypton were both interested (around the time I first posted her first sample on twitter) but ultimately we went with PFX because Anders promised more control over character design whereas Crypton would most likely want to do all art related things on their own terms.

-As Ruby was near complete and changed to a V4 db, Anders suddenly told me that PFX wanted to do their own art to appeal to the EDM audience, which of course disappointed me and Misha because he went back on his word. It sounded like having full control of the design was off the table so I offered to compromise somehow, which Anders said he would talk to PFX about. (He never got back to me about this)

-When Anders said they had completed their art, I asked to see it and out right told him I won't allow Ruby to be released with an image I don't approve of. He shrugged it off and didn't show me, saying that he didn't have PFX's permission to show me.

-A few months later we got contacted by some producers to reveal Ruby at AX and film it. At this point I was pretty suspicious of what was going on with PFX and Anders and their design. I gave Nat's recently completed art for Ruby to Anders. I once again asked to see PFX's art and explicitly told him if it somehow conflicts with the character we have created then there will be major issues. I got the same excuse as earlier, and almost a month later this happened and I finally saw it. I sent Natasha's art to the producers at AX, so that's what I was expecting to be revealed. I was unaware PFX contacted them and sent their own art as well.''

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