Alex Chow
May 17th, 2009, 08:51 PM
Well, obviously, my thread isn't specifically targeting The Simpsons but I was just wondering how people feel about this topic.
How concerned are you artists when you feel something you're creating and mid-way in the process, you realize it looks strangely familiar with another person's artwork? Are there different degrees where similarity is dismissable and when it is enough to be considered plagiarism or condemned by viewers (imagine somebody going "THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF *insert show, game, or whatever here*")?
This is noticable when it's something simple like one character in a scene. The character's pose may have been conceived by myself but, unintentionally, it looks like a certain game cover after thinking it through. Are similar character poses significant enough, in your opinion, to have something changed or dumped, especially if it has already appeared in a popular media release? This is one example I'm asking about only because I'm finding it very hard to not have "one character in a scene" look like something already out in the market.
Then we can branch this off to character designs, compositions, colour choices, environment, style, and many other things. Which do you believe would be an immediate alarm in your head? Combinations of the above? Does the popularity of the artwork in which yours look similar to matter in the decision making?
I asked my friend about this and he told me that it's not something one should be actively worried about since internet kind of made it hard for anybody to be truly original but I would like more input on this before I green-light this topic. I want to adjust my "alarm", so to speak.
How concerned are you artists when you feel something you're creating and mid-way in the process, you realize it looks strangely familiar with another person's artwork? Are there different degrees where similarity is dismissable and when it is enough to be considered plagiarism or condemned by viewers (imagine somebody going "THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF *insert show, game, or whatever here*")?
This is noticable when it's something simple like one character in a scene. The character's pose may have been conceived by myself but, unintentionally, it looks like a certain game cover after thinking it through. Are similar character poses significant enough, in your opinion, to have something changed or dumped, especially if it has already appeared in a popular media release? This is one example I'm asking about only because I'm finding it very hard to not have "one character in a scene" look like something already out in the market.
Then we can branch this off to character designs, compositions, colour choices, environment, style, and many other things. Which do you believe would be an immediate alarm in your head? Combinations of the above? Does the popularity of the artwork in which yours look similar to matter in the decision making?
I asked my friend about this and he told me that it's not something one should be actively worried about since internet kind of made it hard for anybody to be truly original but I would like more input on this before I green-light this topic. I want to adjust my "alarm", so to speak.