Ex-Bungie artist plagiarizes art for marathon (Up: Bungie confirm, offer to do right by the original artist)

To say I'm not surprised is to say nothing. Is it really that hard for such "talanted" studio to draw fucking triangles and squares themselves and arange them in different ways? They couldn't even be bothered to change numbers and stuff. Ugh, what a bunch of creative impotents and plagiarizers ✋:messenger_weary:
 
Let Bungie burn.

Man, it must be some rough days for Sony with the Insomniac hack, Jade Reymond leaving another studio again with nothing to show, Firewalk's Concord going into flames, Bungie being the scam artists they have been for a decade plus that aren't worthy the 3+ billion they were bought for.
 
I cant believe Bungie does this intentionally, as they get cought enough. That either means they do it constantly and they got cought only these times, which is something I don't think is happening.

That only leaves incompetency.
 
Should've waited till the game was released and sold. The suit for damages could've made him a lot of money.

A shit corpo like Bungie doesn't deserve the fair warning like he did here.
 
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Fire the art director immediately.
He doesn't deserve any kind of compensation.
And if management was happy with how the game looked, hire the original artist as the art director, at least they have done something that is in the game already.
 
Hideous Snake said:
This is fucked up if it turns out to be true..
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Good lord, Seems like higher ups might have been laundering the funds for this game if the art department is STILL pulling this kinda stuff.
 
SJRB said:



Seems the game's entire visual identity is lifted from someone else's portfolio. What the fuck.
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If you didn't know the artist and someone told you these were concept designs for Marathon after seeing the game, you would 100% believe them.

It's actually insane how the entire games art-style is this persons portfolio.

Sure, you can't copyright art-styles, but the fact that the ART DIRECTOR of Bungie followed her and the game was revealed to have that art-style, gets you thinking a little bit.
 
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Griffon said:
Should've waited till the game was released and sold. The suit for damages could've made him a lot of money.

A shit corpo like Bungie doesn't deserve the fair warning like he did here.
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He was very smart.. saw the writings on the wall and thought "welp better cash out now" 😅
 
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I actually didn't know that this wasn't their first time until I saw couple of posts here. What a fucking pathetic of a company that

No shame. Even indie and smaller companies didn't do that..
 
Z O N E said:
If you didn't know the artist and someone told you these were concept designs for Marathon after seeing the game, you would 100% believe them.

It's actually insane how the entire games art-style is this persons portfolio.

Sure, you can't copyright art-styles, but the fact that the ART DIRECTOR of Bungie followed her and the game was revealed to have that art-style, gets you thinking a little bit.
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They didnt just use his style, they literally used his images, with his names and logos.

And this couldnt have been a mistake or placeholder, some of these were fully animated.

He did well in cashing out now, I would be surprised if this trash is even released at this point.
 
No wonder most talented graphic designers with a good eye seldom want to work or be associated with AAA studios when they opt for this kind of behaviour frequently. I had no idea this wasn't a first for Bungie. They just fell into the shit bucket and shares space with the likes of Gearbox and Ubisoft in my book.

SirTerry-T said:
The Designers Republic should sue both of them.
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Sir Terry got good taste.
 
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BennyBlanco said:




Bungie are such hacks. I feel bad for this guy. I hope Marty Odonell buys him a lawyer.
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"in 10 years i have never made a consistent income from this work and i am tired of designers from huge companies moodboarding and parasitising my designs while i struggle to make a living."
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The only reason these big corporate studios get away with this is because their legal teams can cover their asses and beat smaller and less known artists without much hassle. Have to give credit to the guy, I dig the designs. Wasn't aware I was actually praising it indirectly through positive impressions about the game's visual aesthetics.
 
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I feel sorry for this guy. I hope either Bungies pays him well or some lawyer sues their asses for free.
 
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Dusktildawn48 said:
The craziest part is that the original artists username actually appears in some of the stolen artwork in the game.
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SJRB said:
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That's the biggest lol of this debacle. I can imagine their art department must really be inept to not even thoroughly assess the art assets they deliberately plagiarized. There must be barely any talent on that team that they resorted to this option.
 
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Bungie is just the worst developer we have.
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Insane.
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I actually agree with this. The only way to do right by the original artist is to backpay them whatever they are paying the art director for Marathon however long that person has been working on it. So, I don't know how much that person is making but we are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars at least.
 
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SJRB said:



Seems the game's entire visual identity is lifted from someone else's portfolio. What the fuck.
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"I've never seen anything so blatant." is a bit weird to say after Palworld being basically an unlicensed Pokemon spinoff game. Actually stealing some logos and the general color palette is not much better, but imho still a lesser steal as slightly redesigning dozens of characters and copying the entire visual appearance of the entire "new" IP. Imho.
When she says it happened before also, barely making a living, I wonder why she isn't working at any game developer, when she seems to be talented enough to be source of "inspiration" and original enough to come up with new ideas... i would laugh my ass off if some other artist comes out showing that they did something similar even earlier. Art same as AI art is usually based on something. (just looking at what is there in the tweet I would think of Wipeout as a somewhat similar design language)
 
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Where's the plagiarism? There must be hundreds of other arts from hundreds of other artists with the same style. Heck, probably the one claiming theft has done the same to the others.
 
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ricardo_sousa11 said:
They didnt just use his style, they literally used his images, with his names and logos.

And this couldnt have been a mistake or placeholder, some of these were fully animated.

He did well in cashing out now, I would be surprised if this trash is even released at this point.
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Oh, I know. I'm just pointing out that the entire games art-style is this girls entire portfolio. Even when I looked at her entire portfolio, I thought I was looking at Marathon concept designs for a moment. Lol
 
QLQ said:
Where's the plagiarism? There must be hundreds of other arts from hundreds of other artists with the same style. Heck, probably the one claiming theft has done the same to the others.
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Sony and Bungie will make it out of this alive mate, relax.
 
How creatively bankrupt do you have to be to design your game's entire art style around someone else's work? RIP Bungie.
 
Why doesn't it surprise me that a studio that devotes its entire existence to incomprehensible live-service slop becomes a black hole of artistry and creativity forced to steal it from others.
 
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