How to get away with plagiarism?

>>3021054
inb4 Choob

by changing it a bunch, and making the character distinctly recognizable.
a cyborg ninja is a very common concept.
you can easily distinguish Genji from Gray Fox, or raiden.

>>3021054
A retard that doesn't know what plagiarism is.
Just another day on /ic/

>>3021054
there's no such thing as art property. Unless you are disney. :) STEAL, KEEP STEALING. DONT STOP STEALING. That is art. You can steal from other artists or you can steal from nature. Either way, you are stealing something. Nobody is original.

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>>3021066
Blizzard is notorious for it though, they built their success on slightly rebranded Warhammer games.

taking heavy inspiration isnt plagiarism

that's how a lot of ripoff games get away with their designs

>>3021054
did this come out before or after genji?

>>3021073
yes sc stole space marines, but star craft is an infinitely better game than warhammer

>>3021073
The only reason they built it on a slightly rebranded version is because they couldn't get the license, fuck you gonna do.

>>3021075
>did this come out before or after genji?
It's from d20 Future Tech, which was published in 2006.

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>>3021080
this is from d20 FT as well

Will Doomfist look like this?

>>3021083
o shit son

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>>3021083
Here's a character design from 1993.

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>>3021083
Pic related for those not familiar with the game.

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>>3021083
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>>3021092
Weapon-limbs-beret-black-man is such an invaluable part of video game history.

>>3021083
Isn't there a guy from mortal kombat that looks like this as well?

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why are all black muscle men half cyborg?

>>3021073
the thing about this type of "plagiarism" is that you can find dozens of examples that make the bottom one look like a copy as well. White haired evil dude with sword is like one of the biggest fantasy tropes ever and he's doing the fucking Skeletor pose. There's a very high chance that no one at Blizzard who worked on the frozen throne ever even saw the bottom illustration.

>>3021098
Jax, yes

>>3021073
hahahaha, another idiot that doesn't know what plagiarism is.

>>3021114
I believe the Elric illustration was made after Frozen Throne, it was potentially even "inspired" by the famous Lich King image, but the character of Arthas itself is a straight rip of Elric's story though.

>>3021109
Well they're not full human anyway.

>>3021054
claim you have "fair use" even when you don't
that's what most the ppl online do

>>3021129
Sick meme my fellow /pol user, let us go fuck our inbred sisters next.

>>3021073
Is it the fact that they are sitting down with a sword?

You are too stupid.

>>3021256
see
>>3021117

>Arthas also offers many similarities withMichael Moorcock's "Elric of Melniboné" character and his rune swordStormbringer. Both are rulers who betray their own land, and both are cursed by their runic blades.

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>>3021083
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>>3021109
Ay yo - whys whitey always be tearin off a bruthah's arms fo? Shiiiiet. Dats raysis.

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>>3021279
What's going on in this thread.

>>3021271
Eh, the design philosophies are different enough to say it's more of an homage. One is connected with cold, the other is connected with chaos or darkness. One is damn near soulless, the other is a more clever evil.

And there are tons of stories about cursed swords and brooding rulers. If anything this is a writing issue.

>>3021083
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>>3021279
Black boxers made this trope a thing.

>>3021279
My guess it has to do with the white man's fear of the black man's innate strength and virility. By making them disabled and reliant on the white man's technology they become less threatening to their creator, and to the readers as well. Most every person in America has run into a young black man, or more likely an entire pack of them, and been scared shitless by their physicality and overt sexuality.

I know this because I think and feel these things. My own media, whether its stories or drawings, never has any black people in it. My ideal world only has white people of European descent, and they all have pink nipples. Does this mean I think black people act and behave in a certain way? No, that's just racist, but I do believe in statistics. For whatever reason, a black man is more likely to mug me on the street than a white one. Say what you will about the reasons, but that is a fact.

>>3021311
>My ideal world only has pink nipples.

I know those feels.

>>3021316
I mean, really. Any other color is fucking gross. I don't like big nipples, either. Fucking nasty.

>>3021311
I understand that as far as fictional stories go.

It's just dumb when people try to white wash a setting that would call for brown dudes.

Same stupid shit if they decided to rewrite the Arthurian legend with Idris Elba as King Arthur.

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>>3021344
Don't worry, it'll be coming soon to a theater near you. Be sure to go see it goy.

>>3021083
Literally Jax.

>>3021369
I'm already mad about Idris being Roland Deschain. The nigga could have had a role in the trilogy, it should have been Josh Brolin.

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>>3021070
only good post here

>>3021145
lol a nigger got triggered

>>3021544

>>>/pol/

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do 3D modeling instead
>steal animu models
>essentially play dressup or recolor 2hu characters
>call it your original donot steals
>$$$
rwby has official nendroids being created by japs

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Jaime is thief

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disgusting tracer

>>3021073
> Arthas-Elric

Arthas is basically Archaon, both in History and design-wise.
Dragons are taken from D&D, a lot of monsters like Gnolls too.
I'm sure 90% of WoW stuff could be tracked back to something older, they just put everything together.
Their original stuff is mostly variation on older tropes of sword & sorcery.

>>3021599
>dragons
>from DnD

wut

>>3021475
Me too, but if I understand it correctly there won't be any Suzannah in this movie, so it's propably the studio virtue signaling before they're called racists or some other stupid shit

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god fuck grinding fundies, I'm done. just going to trace and steal doing paintovers now

>>3021610
Yeah. It's definitely going to be a cinematic-universe thing. I bet they even going to do The Mist again considering the TV show was predictably garbage.

>>3021615
Your work will still be shit unless you eat your fundies, anon.

>>3021617
I already did, the difference is grinding the extra hours so I can draw from imagination, versus paintovers where I save 50% of the work and just have to pick colors and adjust form. Seriously fuck digital art

>>3021615
>>3021619
Fuck yeah!

>>3021619
Then make a few photobashes and get a job anon. Let us see how far you get.

You don't get it, those guys have decades of experience ahead of you. If they see your portfolio, they will see your tricks and will put you back in your place.

>>3021619
>I already did

And no you didn't faggot, keep drawing. Lifestyle, not destination.

>>3021054
Plagiarize everything.

>>3021601
He means the different colors being different dragon species. In WCII dragons were basically chromatic dragons from DnD.

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>>3021601

What >>3021664 says. The fact that Gnome are engineers is taken from Dragonlance, Paladins are a mix of D&D Paladins and Priests of Sigmar. Historical Paladins didn't wear a big book and a bigger hammer and couldn't cast Heal magic, etc.

It isn't like they try to hide their influences, the 8 rare tomes to collect in Dalaran are named after the 8 Schools of Magic of D&D.

They took stuff from a lot of things, I wouldn't call it plagiarazing, it's not like people should be forbidden to use Orcs outside of LotR or as if D&D didn't "borrow" a thousand things too (like Hobbits).

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
"Pablo Picasso"

Plagiarize a bunch of shit at once.

As soon as you mash 2-3 things you ripped off together it's magically creative.

>>3021769
and he stole that saying from Beethoven whom i also think stole that saying from someone else.

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>800 billion company
Steal to your heart's content kids.

Ok so i had a question about "making references"

So I'm developing an original story. Originally, I was inspired by a song, for now let's say that somg was Bon Jovi's Livin on a Prayer.
In my story, the main character has these recurring nightmares, and within them a person is talking. The words they're saying reference a verse in Bon Jovi's song. Let's say I take 2 or 3 lines and pretty much copypaste them. Then maybe in another dream more lines are unveiled, and so on, for a few dreams. Bon jovi isn't actually singing in the story, but the words still make sense in the context of the story.

Could I get sued for doing that?
How does a show like JoJo make so many musical references ( important characters, mind you) and get away with it?

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>>3022279
And the Apple designer even got a knighthood out of that.

>>3023224
>How does a show like JoJo make so many musical references ( important characters, mind you) and get away with it?
They don't. Look at all the times JoJo media is translated/localized for the west.

>>3023224
Not unless you do something like post on the internet saying, 'hey I'm making a web comic with Bon Jovi lyrics in it' and then attempt to profit from via sale, traffic, or subscription.

> how do i get around IP like they do in japan
give it a second, realize how dumb your question is yet?

>>3021054
the only parts that look overly simmilar to me are the delts and the bottom contour of the "visor"

and if genji's the second one, then he's definitely an improvement given how the other one is 90% superhero-jumpsuit.

>>3023224
Araki only gets away with it because he started his manga in the 80's when Japan didn't really give a shit about copyright laws from dirty howaito piggus.

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>>3021054
live in china or steal obscure silhouettes from youtube videos and art accounts fill them out on your own like this http://www.deviantart.com/art/DAC-8-419267349
https://youtu.be/4yKxY0KKrak?t=5m35s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxoNLP_6ok4

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>>3028004
What happend to danimation? I used to look up to this guy and now he does shit like this.

Steal from artists dead

>>3028072
fuck

I meant dead artists

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>>3021054
Genji was originally going to be two characters, and they split him in half because he was way too strong for the game.

>>3028818
I don't give a shit about the bow, but I want that original version to be a fucking Genji costume. That shit's dope.

>>3028826
they should name him genjo or hanji

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>>3021083
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>>3021279

>>3021054
Yup, Arnold Tsang has no imagination whatsoever. But he has technical skill and that's what landed him this job. Also being a weeb