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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1470 on: March 21, 2010, 02:41:44 am
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1471 on: March 21, 2010, 02:42:54 am
Has anyone played Digital: A Love Story yet? I myself was not even born in 1988, but I think nerds everywhere will be able to appreciate it.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1472 on: March 21, 2010, 01:30:10 pm
http://community.livejournal.com/bleachness/446299.html

 :lol:  :n:

He starts ripping from Bleach fanart, and it just becomes mindblowingly rediculous.

"My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all Manga" - All manga meaning Bleach.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1473 on: March 21, 2010, 02:25:43 pm
also if you find it read his DeviantArt chat with some fan who is telling him politely to do more studying.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1474 on: March 21, 2010, 05:08:52 pm
http://community.livejournal.com/bleachness/446299.html

 :lol:  :n:

He starts ripping from Bleach fanart, and it just becomes mindblowingly rediculous.

"My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all Manga" - All manga meaning Bleach.

To be able to overlay the images of completely different works and have the lines fit together perfectly is also something common to all Manga. ALL OF IT!
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1475 on: March 21, 2010, 05:42:19 pm
to be honest I don't think much of it is tracing, just copying. Is that less bad?

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1476 on: March 21, 2010, 06:32:35 pm
he might as well trace, it's like copying but quicker. unless we're talking about the copying for personal purposes where you're actually studying the orginal drawing, like a master copy or something.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1477 on: March 21, 2010, 08:14:01 pm
to be honest I don't think much of it is tracing, just copying. Is that less bad?

Yep, if it's tracing then lines would've generally went together .. more perfectly.

But it's just as bad. Actually it's almost worse - there's some inherent honesty about tracing, there's, after all, direct evidence about the plagiarism embedded in the very lines.

Copying by eye, though, can be excused with 'being inspired by' whatever you blatantly copied. It's sneaky and ugly. I dislike it because it takes something obviously bad and tries to write it off as gray-zone. ):
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1478 on: March 22, 2010, 11:47:30 am
To be able to overlay the images of completely different works and have the lines fit together perfectly is also something common to all Manga. ALL OF IT!

Well, I think there is some truth to this. That goes for Superhero comics as well, since there are so many generic symbols, silhouettes and gestures that are ingrained in the minds of artists working within these fields. Take the classic Jack Kirby pose of a hero dashing towards the viewer for example. How many times have those same lines been repeated over the years by various artists?

Either way, there was this basketball manga a couple of years back that got caught swiping huge chunks of another basketball manga, namely Slam Dunk, which in turn had ironically enough been swiping NBA photos for years. The way I see it this kid is just keeping up with the good ol' Japanese spirit of churning out comic pages at any cost, and making a buck out of it. Good for him!

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #1479 on: March 22, 2010, 02:39:01 pm
Swiping is an art as old as comic books themselves. Simmon's examples are particularly hilarious in their total lack of subtlety and foresight.

http://comipress.com/article/2007/07/09/2267
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/956