(Observer Network News) Stitch Master.
On the 24th, a microblog by the domestic painter @ medicine pot pot attracted the attention of the game circle. He said that a female character in The Project Shaz, a new work by Japanese game company Tokyo Virtual Theory, has the same design as his previous work, from clothes cuts and shoes to color matching, and even "two infusion bags". Subsequently, he also questioned on Twitter.
With the fermentation of the incident, many netizens found that other designs of the work also had a situation of copying the stacked pictures.
On the 25th, TVT issued an apology letter, saying that the design problem was still in production, and admitted that "the following illustrations were indeed referenced in the development process, and stitching and other techniques were used." However, they did not verify with the illustrator when they released it, mistakenly believing that the design drawing had reached a stage where it could be made public, which led to the storm. TVT apologized to the artists whose rights had been violated.
The action game God Eater is one of the gods in the circle, but recently, its production team has been involved in plagiarism.
In 2019, Toshiyuki Hoi, the producer of God Eater, led his development team to create a company called "Tokyo Virtual Theory", and recently confirmed that two new works are under development, using its self-developed engine "Theory", which is a multiplayer action game "Project Shaz" and a rhythm action game "Project Jabber Wocky".
"Project Shaz" was developed by Toshiyuki Hoai and scripted by Tomokazu Fukushima, who had been in charge of "Hidden Dragon", and the game was supervised by Kennaga Nakasai, the supervisor of Hacker Space-Time G.U.
However, after the release of the model, the shape of one of the female characters has a lot of overlap with the work of the domestic painter @ medicine pot pot.
On the 24th, @medicine pot pot After seeing the character modeling, he immediately posted a blog questioning "what does the fifth character mean" and released his previous works.
The picture below is the original work of the medicine pot pot ↓
Later, he posted again and asked: "Why is the clothes cut, even two infusion bags the same?" Shoes, color matching, seams and mending are what you created? ”
On the same day, he asked the producers on Twitter why they had copied themselves.
Some netizens posted a stacked picture on the game discussion platform NGA, saying that the shape of "Project Shaz" is the same as the character shape of the pot and pan, arms, face and even infusion bags.
There are also enthusiastic netizens drawing circles to compare ↓
As for the yellow decoration on the head of the character and the skirt on the lower body, it is also stacked with other network picture materials.
It has also been found that other designs also have the phenomenon of overlapping drawings...
There are also characters stacked with live photos ↓
On the 25th, TVT published an apology letter on its official website.
The person in charge, Baojing, said that the character design suspected of plagiarism was still in production, and they did not verify with the illustrator when they released it to the public, mistakenly believing that the design drawing had reached the stage where it could be made public, which caused the storm and apologized to the infringed painter. Hoi said that in the future, a new human design will be adopted.
The following is a letter of apology from TVT.
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