Traced Art

[Noblood]

I have no idea what game this is but it only piqued my interest only for the fact that its promotional art contains elements that are clearly traced. The girl's pose featured in the cover art of the game is traced from a cover art of a different game, Bayonetta 2.

The artwork in question:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/wJ8YP6

The original traced art in question:
https://imgur.com/a/DyapgbG

Here is the artist profile at Artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/alessiogrecoart/profile

I mean really? The guy says he teaches but here he is just taking the easy route and traces stuff without really trying to create anything new with the character's pose.

I am just finding this amusing and wanted to entertain myself further.

[mhaeric]

Eh, if you overlay them the angles are clearly different. It's very likely an inspiration but a claim of being traced doesn't hold up.

[Raelic]

Clearly it's not original. I don't really think it's malicious or stealing though.

[mhaeric]

Here's the inspiration for the castlevania-like character. Still not traced, though.
https://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/612039-Castlevania-Dave-Rapoza.jpg

[The Killer]

its an action pose, whats the problem?

[Noblood]

Originally posted by The Killer:

its an action pose, whats the problem?

You generally don't want people's first thought of your artwork is "Oh hey, I've seen this before" I guess

[Raelic]

Originally posted by Noblood:

Originally posted by The Killer:

its an action pose, whats the problem?

You generally don't want people's first thought of your artwork is "Oh hey, I've seen this before" I guess

Disagreed.

[Noblood]

Originally posted by Raelic:

Originally posted by Noblood:

You generally don't want people's first thought of your artwork is "Oh hey, I've seen this before" I guess

Disagreed.

Okay. At least I know I am not planning on hiring the guy as a freelancer if he isn't going to produce "new" art

[bobFromReboot]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man? Do you get this mad when two songs use the same chord progression? The human body can only be viewed from so many angles and in so many poses...

[Noblood]

Originally posted by bobFromReboot:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man? Do you get this mad when two songs use the same chord progression? The human body can only be viewed from so many angles and in so many poses...

who is getting mad other than you? May I ask why are you mad about it? lol

where do you live where you see the pose in question in your everyday daily life? It isn't like a generic pose. It is a pose that I clearly remember from which game from which character.

Tracing and imitating art for learning, improving and getting critique purposes is fine but this guy knows what he is doing and he says he is a teacher to boot. I can't help but to be amused by this.

[Rikard]

Originally posted by Noblood:

Originally posted by bobFromReboot:

Tracing and imitating art for learning, improving and getting critique purposes is fine but this guy knows what he is doing and he says he is a teacher to boot. I can't help but to be amused by this.

"Good artists imitate, great artists steal" :)

He clearly has clearly spent a lot of time on his picture. To use other pictures as inspiration/tracing/whatever you want to call it it totally normal. In fact there's plenty of galleries with people doing poses so you can copy them or trace/whatever. A lot of actual official art work is painted like this.

In fact: Do you think he is claiming he HASN'T used that picture as reference?

Good spot, but I don't think this is shocking in any way, this is totally something a lot of artists do to save time.

You don't have to invent the wheel over and over and to do everything from scratch might be pointless if the plan is to focus on something else, like making a nice looking picture in a short time to keep the price down.

[Bellpepper]

look the man used a reference for his 3 dollar game, it's like the third picture that pulls up when you look up" Bayonetta pose" it's not a trace and he didn't 'steal' from some unknown artist.

[Noblood]

Originally posted by Bellpepper:

look the man used a reference for his 3 dollar game, it's like the third picture that pulls up when you look up" Bayonetta pose" it's not a trace and he didn't 'steal' from some unknown artist

The artist is a hired freelancer. I doubt he is the same guy that made the game.

What difference does it make if the traced art is from an unknown or known artist?

Maybe because the game is a 3 dollar game, the freelancer artist decided to half ass the job I guess.

[Raelic]

Originally posted by Noblood:

Originally posted by Bellpepper:

look the man used a reference for his 3 dollar game, it's like the third picture that pulls up when you look up" Bayonetta pose" it's not a trace and he didn't 'steal' from some unknown artist

The artist is a hired freelancer. I doubt he is the same guy that made the game.

What difference does it make if the traced art is from an unknown or known artist?

Maybe because the game is a 3 dollar game, the freelancer artist decided to half ass the job I guess.

Looks like a full ass to me.

[Noblood]

Originally posted by Raelic:

Looks like a full ass to me.

Can’t disagree on that

[ButtahNips]

Imagine being this pedantic. Lmao, find something better to do with your time.