rylla
The Magician card is to die for! Cheetah is my favorite animal on the world and its expression is very well captured.
I'm not talking about the symbols but the composition and proportion of the artwork. It's done in a different medium, much smoother, and includes decorative details. But the Hermit card is not only "twice the same symbolic animal" which wouldn't make me angry - nearly every deck has a wheel on trump X, so what? Serious tarot artists re-interpret the same symbols in different style.
But here the case is different. Look at some of her other cards. She uses the same compositions like Kim Krans, only calls the cards by different name. So the fawn is no longer Page of Pentacles but the Fool. Still, it's stylistically very close.
If I had to judge whether this is plagiarism nor not, which would involve a much more serious analysis, I wouldn't look at the choice of non-traditional symbols but at HOW they are depicted.
And IMO there's hardly a doubt that these cards were "inspired" by Kim Krans' original work.
I wouldn't feel angry if she had mentioned that somewhere. But this feels like taking a ride on a hugely successful concept.
Sorry, I can't come to any other conclusion.
Btw, both the Badger's Forest and the Shadowscapes use foxes as symbols. In the Badger's Forest deck, they're the Cups symbol animal: intuitive, secretive. In the Shadowscapes, they appear on the Wands cards: their red colour, exuberance, cleverness, quickness.
So there are very different ways to interpret animals.
I'll have another look at this deck and be back with a more serious opinion.
Um - PLEASE edit your campaign. The words "Rider-Weight" are hurting my brain.... and I suspect may well put many off, as the spelling suggests you don't know your tarot... (If you hadn't posted as a member here that is exactly what I would have thought, and I would have passed it by.)