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[Deified Data]

Getting so fucking sick of zombies.

 

[Viola of the Abyss]

This is so sad... :/
Are you sure the original is from the game and not some kind of stock image?

 

[Reiko]

lmao

 

[tsab]

Industry is running out of zombies. Who would've though of that!

 

[Xpliskin]

The WarZwei

Spoiler

made my day lol

 

[V-Lance]

It's called concept art for a reason. Pretty unfortunate for them though that this surfaced.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Reminds of the GTA 5 concept art that used a sports illustrated photo as reference

Other than perhaps the face, that's a totally acceptable use of reference.

 

[Riposte]

zwei would they do this?

 

[DragonSworne]

Jesus, how did anyone even notice that?

I thought it looked strange when I first saw it, but I shrugged it off to me seeing and playing so many zombie related material.

 

[MrOddbird]

How on earth does one notice these?
Well it certainly is an interesting start for the game. Why would they use these screenshots?

 

[Messofanego]

The WarZwei

Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BeekleMatter]

Reminds of the GTA 5 concept art that used a sports illustrated photo as reference

I am fairly sure this was intentional, and they named her as the model for the picture. So I don't think that is really the same thing.

 

[jett]

That is one LaZ artist.

 

[SolarPowered]

What the...

 

[Moxx19]

 

[Sorral]

That concept artists couldn't have drawn the zombies or some figures of people there himself? Geez, talk about being lazy.

 

[balohna]

It's concept art. It's not official art being sold or put on the box or anything like that. This doesn't matter.

 

[bone_and_sinew]

 

[PFD]

GG Bethesda

 

[ezekial45]

Well that's very disappointing.

 

[Whompa]

It's concept art...nobody gives a shit.

You guys have no concept of how fast the turn a rounds are for some of these projects...

 

[MisterC20XX]

I wonder how much time this saved them.

 

[imjust1n]

Bethesda did say big THINGS are coming so I think there are more this is....idk kinda odd for bethesda but we shall see.

 

[Superflat]

Using images for reference like comics is generally okay. In illustration reference is key to getting things to look right, so as long as it's not identical, I can give it a pass. Ideally you'd have a high quality camera, studio lights, and have people around you to do poses and whatnot, but not everyone has that luxury.

The OP image though, looks like a straight up copy/paste job, which is alright to point and laugh at. At least stagger the positions or something. Nothin to get outraged about or anything however, these are concepts.

It's concept art...nobody gives a shit.

You guys have no concept of how fast the turn a rounds are for some of these projects...

Pretty much.

 

[Roubjon]

It's concept art...nobody gives a shit.

You guys have no concept of how fast the turn a rounds are for some of these projects...

Yeah this. Who cares? The guy is conceptualizing. Does he need to draw everything?

 

[Dark Octave]

that tracing like everything by Greg Land

You can see where he tried to go off and be an actual artist because those parts are all fucked up, like the fingers looking like hotdogs.

 

[ari]

- non original game title(The Evil Within = Resident Evil)

That's absolutely reaching to the highest of levels.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

bwahahhaa of all the games.

 

[thetrin]

How Greg Land keeps gainful employment is truly a modern mystery!

He's always on time and easy to work with. That's pretty much it.

The fact that Greg Land has been using porn for his traces makes it even funnier.

 

[dubq]

Well, to be fair, it is concept art. The artist who made it might not have intended for it to be publicly released.

THIS.

This kind of thing is done all of the time in concept art for various design pieces. It's probably a comping image. Aka a low-resolution images used only for illustrative purposes, such as for client presentations or drafts. They cannot be used for any finished project, whether personal or professional.

 

[ironcreed]

Wow, how embarrassing.

 

[Izick]

Well, to be fair, it is concept art. The artist who made it might not have intended for it to be publicly released.

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Didn't this happen before, to another game? Sometimes these things are slapped together to give a general idea what the game is about. Sometimes it's not even intended to be seen by anyone outside the company.

 

[shandy706]

Almost every piece of WarZ's artwork was a straight tracing/copy of The Walking Dead assets.

Inside joke?

I would LOL if so.

 

[Xanadu]

who cares

 

[dubq]

who cares

Probably people who don't understand what "concept art" means.

 

[Dresden]

Not a big deal, but honestly those zombies don't need to be in the pic at all.

 

[Jackpot]

THIS.

This kind of thing is done all of the time in concept art for various design pieces. It's probably a comping image. Aka a low-resolution images used only for illustrative purposes, such as for client presentations or drafts. They cannot be used for any finished project, whether personal or professional.

Except all those are internal uses. You absolutely can not used traced pictures for external advertising like in this case.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Almost every piece of WarZ's artwork was a straight tracing/copy of The Walking Dead assets.

Inside joke?

I would LOL if so.

Well, it's like people say...it takes two to tango.

If it's concept art, it shouldn't be a big deal, no? I don't know the rules about this kind of stuff, I'll admit.

 

[Mendoza]

It's concept art. It's not official art being sold or put on the box or anything like that. This doesn't matter.

I agree someone, but with shit like this you always want to put your best foot forward.

We don't know the origin of this piece of concept art. This could have been additive from someone at Bethesda's PR.

 

[Hystzen]

It was used to advertise the game which is different from inside company concept art. Inside company mock ups you should be safe from tracing but this was used to advertise and give first look at the game to general public so tracing not good idea.

 

[Ronin]

This is non-news.

 

[Replicant]

Damn.

I hope those things are not zombies because I'm kind of over them atm.

 

[spirity]

Off to a good start, Bethesda.

Oh dear, I expected better from you Bethesda =/

GG Bethesda

Ok, I'm confused. Tango is the developer, and Bethesda the publisher. Is the concept art the work of the publisher then? I thought the developer would do that?

 

[Sho Nuff]

This is how a lot of concept artists work tbh.

 

[Madouu]

The cycle is complete

 

[legacyzero]

Did they maybe do it on purpose?? Just for the lulz?

 

[Haunted]

Looks like the rip-offer has become the rip-offee.

 

[Jackpot]

This is non-news.

Internal concept art for pitches and thematic guides are fine, and it is still plagiarism to use it in public assets. Like the difference between me using someone else's work to explain a concept to a student in class and me using someone else's work in an external & circulated writing without giving credit for their text. There is a trend in artists towards becoming more lax over this but that doesn't suddenly make it right. "Other people do it" is not a valid excuse.

 

[Riposte]

Ok, I'm confused. Tango is the developer, and Bethesda the publisher. Is the concept art the work of the publisher then? I thought the developer would do that?

What you are seeing is the beginning of people using Bethesda as a scapegoat of anything bad about The Evil Within or Tango. For another instance of this look at BioWare and EA.

 

[Sirot]

Bungie did the same thing for their Destiny concept art. Not too shocking.