Buggy Loop
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James is preparing a response when the ban lifts
Ex-Bungie artist plagiarizes art for marathon (Up: Bungie confirm, offer to do right by the original artist)
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James is preparing a response when the ban lifts
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Buggy Loop
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bender
What time is it?
saintjules
Member
Unfortunately you'll get his thoughts before GTA VI is out.
bender
What time is it?
Funny enough, Karl Jobst ran the case against him through ChatGPT (or some AI) and it came back saying there was virtually no chance he could lose.
saintjules
Member
This is why you copyright / patent your work.
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
I thought it might just be an artist carrying on, no it's just blatant copy and paste lol.
They couldn't even be bothered for AI to generate images in 'style' of this artist and many others which is a definable style reminding me back to Wipeout, Finals touches, cyberpunk advertising etc.
What have they been doing for 6 years?
They couldn't even be bothered for AI to generate images in 'style' of this artist and many others which is a definable style reminding me back to Wipeout, Finals touches, cyberpunk advertising etc.
What have they been doing for 6 years?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
It's going to be a shit show
LRKD
Member
What are you talking about? Bungie only hires the best blue haired woman/They/Thems/PoC? How dare you draw their hiring practices into question
Hideous Snake
Gold Member
Reach out to him on twitter
cormack12
Gold Member
The main unique, interesting thing about the game wasn't even originally created by Bungie.
Shitposting aside, there needs to be some sort of personal responsibility from artists who are hired and scrape the Internet nicking things. You can't actually expect the studio to cross reference every piece of art etc.
Shitposting aside, there needs to be some sort of personal responsibility from artists who are hired and scrape the Internet nicking things. You can't actually expect the studio to cross reference every piece of art etc.
ZehDon
Member
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Poor guy, not getting a rest even when banned.
Topher
Identifies as young
bender
What time is it?
IAmRei
Member
not being ass, as I'm also logo designer as well...
but... simple geometric like that is so easy to make, and doesn't even know if there is also people made before them,
it's because super simple shape, everyone can do that even without reference, or without even know if other people made it already.
but... simple geometric like that is so easy to make, and doesn't even know if there is also people made before them,
it's because super simple shape, everyone can do that even without reference, or without even know if other people made it already.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
is the alpha feedback ""event" a video or a stream? i can see the comment section being a party
kevboard
Member
I'm sorry what?
this is extremely blatant, literally the same designs even partly in the same order, just in a different orientation.
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
image this, but with A. I.
Killjoy-NL
Member
They said it's a PlayMA. They'll be doing an AMA while streaming internal playtesting.
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Jinzo Prime
Gold Member
ChorizoPicozo
Member
public humiliation.
IAmRei
Member
ah make sense : ))
Killjoy-NL
Member
Tbh and it goes for any game, I couldn't give two shits about who designed the art.
It's between these companies and the artists to solve any legal issues.
But if what the Marathon dev team said is true, they should compensate the artist and credit him for his work.
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MayauMiao
Member
Its a bad PR regardless and shows Bungie simply copy paste whatever artwork they could find and declare it to have a very meaningful symbol to the Marathon lore. Cheap and lazy.
Killjoy-NL
Member
Sure, it definitely is.
But it doesn't concern me as a consumer, is what I meant.
And not just this case, but in general.
Robb
Gold Member
Bungie responded
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darrylgorn
Member
Shouldn't Bungie be suing them for such disgusting art direction?
Barakov
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PonyStation4
Member
It was probably 1 employee doing it, I doubt it's a company wide thing.
StreetsofBeige
Member
From the article. Bungie seems to have a history of ripping off artists.
This isn't the first time Bungie has been accused of using the work of independent artists without permission. Just last year, Bungie admitted fan art was used while designing a Destiny 2 Nerf gun, and promised to compensate and credit the artist. In 2023, Bungie said it would do the same for another artist after an in-game Destiny 2 cutscene featured near-identical similarities to their artwork. And in 2021, Bungie confirmed that fanart of Xivu Arath was "accidentally used" in a trailer for the Witch Queen expansion.
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ChorizoPicozo
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FeralEcho
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Riiiight....a "former" artist...Bungie responded
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"Conducting a thorough review of our in game assets" and "implementing stricter checks to document all artist contributions" ....says company on it's 4th plagiarism offense...
Sure champ, I'm sure next time things will reaaaaally be different.
Bert Big Balls
Gold Member
Sakura
Member
Isn't this like the 4th time they've been caught doing this in as many years?
I don't know if they are outsourcing their work or what, but they seem to have a problem.