im not saying im the first to ever use a gun in a logo, but if you see the teaser on my site, logo, animation, you won't see any of the EXACT same elements used anywhere else in the world because i modeled the gun and logo, did the animation, used my own way to come up with an idea that may not be original but the execution is
on the other side, MSP used the snow fall comp from the AE tutorial, the smoke comp from the AE tutorial as well as the camera, lighting and shadow, floor texture from the AE project file, without any attempt to make it their own. the only thing they changed are the words and font. others might not care at all but for a company that is supposed to be one of the best ski film companies in the world, I am going to hold them to a higher standard, and this thread shows that I'm not the only one too.
im not claiming that I or others work is 100% original, but my workflow is a lot different then opening up a premade project file and changing the letters. as someone that buys ski films, it bugs me that they don't put more of an effort into producing the best product they can, especially after they try to block others from trying to do just that