Yeah, alright. I agree. All artists should be dropping their reference photos into reverse google image search. I forget this resource exists too often.
Random images are used for placeholder art all the time in games. You just are supposed to replace them before you ship.
I've only worked on indie games, so I don't know what a AAA studio's process is, but I can see how you might miss something with 1000's of art assets in your game.
That's just an explanation for how an unsourced image makes it into the game. This specific one? Not sure, maybe they googled "dead body" and used one of the first images? I certainly had never seen that image before, and it does look like a movie still.
Again, not excusing it. Just explaining how it might have happened.
The artist who did that should work at Naughty Dog.
Sure, it's possible this was placeholder art. But considering this is a real body of a person (if the artist didn't even check the source for the google image search, that was the first mistake), that no one vetted this later on shows some kind of real fuckup in their asset pipeline. I mean at a AAA level this kind of thing shouldn't slip by. I've worked on agency projects before and any externally-sourced art or photos is generally buttoned up tight because the price for not making sure everything is cleared is a nice lawsuit and sometimes bad press.
On top of that, it's just.... it's a dead body, right there on the screen. It just blows my mind that it got all the way to this point without a project manager saying, "Hey..uh, so about that dead body there..."
I don't understand this joke. Please explain?
I don't understand this joke. Please explain?
The assassination happened on live TV.
Very similar images were posted on the first page of the GAF thread, including one from CNN which was just a different angle.
If you completely ignore international news, maybe you could miss it. But it's not like this was some small event that only got local coverage overseas, especially with the shooter's rant about Syria and Turkish/Russian relations at the time.
I don't understand this joke. Please explain?
https://www.polygon.com/2016/2/24/1...stolen-assassins-creed-black-flag-concept-art
TBF the offending artwork didn't make it into the official game.
They also got heat over stealing an artists' subway map for TLoU
I've never seen this photo in my life or even heard that this happened. And I read a lot of news.
I can't say what their system is because I've never worked at a AAA company. But the point of placeholder art is that it's fast and there's no overhead. Having to do a reverse google image search on every piece of placeholder art and then having your boss vet it would be silly, as only the dev team should ever see it.
Think about the artist's thought process. "I just need to communicate internally that there is a dead body here until we get the final art in. OK, time for google". Anything slower than that would be inefficient.
Yeah, that photograph is amazing.Wait, is that second photo real shot of the crime scene? Could da mistook it for a scene from a Bond movie
I have, couldn't have connected seeing the body in-game to the real life situation though. Still it's pretty damn odd and distasteful to have it in the game. I'd assume it will be removed and Telltale will apologize for the mistake, or whatever it was. Or atleast that's how I would do it.I've never seen this photo in my life or even heard that this happened. And I read a lot of news.
If I take something out of a store and just forget to pay for it it's still stealing.They got heat over using an artist's subway map as placeholder during development and then forgetting to replace it before the game shipped.
The assassination happened on live TV.
Very similar images were posted on the first page of the GAF thread, including one from CNN which was just a different angle.
If you completely ignore international news, maybe you could miss it. But it's not like this was some small event that only got local coverage overseas, especially with the shooter's rant about Syria and Turkish/Russian relations at the time.
A little from column A, a little from column B.Holy fuck please tell me it's a disgruntled employee's sabotage and not just the effect of their superb quality control.
how does this happen
what
"hey we need an image of a bank heist - maybe have a guard knocked out"
"ok chief"
*googles guy shot on the floor*
What an interesting concept.Respectable TV news had not shown the footage anyway, at least in many European countries they show no images of murder victims.
Unless it was sold as stock photo it still doesn't make any sense to put random person's face in your game.It looks like someone stole the picture as a shortcut not realizing the thing was real. The museum lighting makes the real event appear staged in the photo.