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This is lovely. Glad I got to see it today!
Lead me to this.
And I must say: Amazing. I love this.
I think the idea is great and the more soft tones suit this piece far better than the hard lines the vector used.
The the MLP fandom, the majority of vectors made are 'traced' from a screenshot of the show, but they're not made to be able to say "Hey guys look, this is mine, I came up with this and I'm so cool!", they are in fact made so that they can be used as resources, spread around and re-used. I used quotations over the word traced up there because the word tracing implies a direct copy, like putting a piece of paper over a drawing and tracing through it. When we do vectors from the show we aren't copying exactly. We're adding in missing details, fixing animation errors, anything we can to do the work that the animators just can't to make that particular character's pose or the scenery stand out and given attention.
When we 'trace' something, we do it only to complement the original and to sometimes give it a different style which appeals to other people.
Then of course you have vectors which are not traced in the slightest. If you look at the work by *ZuTheSkunk, there is no tracing involved there at all but all of his work is vector.
Others (including me) make quick little sketches on paper which are missing a lot of the details and then vector over them, making a unique pose, character, object or whatever the thing is but in the show's style.
Also the actual show is made in Flash, from vectors.
If it isn't traced and is done completely by yourself, I don't find it as bad. I have no issue with people using vectors to help them draw better (as long as they aren't tracing the vectors). I just don't believe they belong on an art site that was made to show art you did 100% by yourself and one that is against most traces (but when you call them 'vectors', it's suddenly okay???) and don't think it's fair that original pieces get buried underneath vector work.
So... yes it is more or less a trace, but it also isn't. It helps to understand the medium before making a judgement.