Comments on: WoT Medal Inspired by Deviantart

By: Urie van Kerr

Urie van Kerr — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:21:37 +0000

I hope the “artist” who did this for WoT is ashamed of themselves, their morals are lacking and they fake their creativity.

By: seroster

seroster — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:15:16 +0000

Oh okay, yeah.

I bet if we scaled down the original image to the same resolution as the medal, it would look the same.

By: Dreadmoth

Dreadmoth — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:27:26 +0000

Yeah, I just overlaid the medal image onto the artist’s picture to show how the outline and many of the details match up almost perfectly (aside from the ‘snake’ and some of the detail lines around that area).

Maybe a gif with a fade transition would have worked better.

By: zapatista

zapatista — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:28:11 +0000

Totally agree with you if you keep it to their department. But if some idiots connect nationality to it then i feel strong urge to react.

By: zapatista

zapatista — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:26:55 +0000

It would be same as calling people from austrian germans or people from netherlands germans. they perhaps share the same ancestors but are different nations nowadays.

because only massive lack of intelligence would be needed to continue playing game made by people (company, country) you hate so much. as siemka player you can be a good addition to WT community.

and yet you still share the same slavic roots and genes so you got more in common with them bastard russians than you would like to admit to yourself.

By: ExoNut

ExoNut — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:50:50 +0000

Call the Putin I don’t give a fuck

By: perkele

perkele — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:02:38 +0000

There is, luckily, laws allowing artists to use copyrighted art as inspiration. As long as enough effort is put into making both art pieces critically different, you’re fine. Like taking a picture and heavily reworking it to insert it into a medal. You can see where the inspiration comes from, but there is no denying an artist’s rendition of a mythical creature in a pseudo realist manner is inherently different from the image of a medal depicting said mythical creature rendered in a metalic texture. Even if it’s obvious the first piece of artwork was used as a base for the second.

By: PhobosX

PhobosX — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:41:04 +0000

ad.1 “Belo-russians” you get it?
ad.2 because I can.
ad.3 and who the fck you are to give me orders you pesant?

By: seroster

seroster — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:30:31 +0000

Wow, nice photoshop job. Notice how the text in that picture is mirrored and the wolf head is more detailed than the rest? That’s because it’s not a zoomed in copy of the medal’s image. Someone zoomed it in and flipped it, then photoshopped the original artist’s wolf’s head on top.

This is what the medal actually looks like zoomed in.

http://i.imgur.com/tHTKPkb.png

Now, all that being said? I agree that this is more than “inspired by” and I sure hope the artist got asked/paid.

By: Klint_Izwudd

Klint_Izwudd — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:18:53 +0000

WOT isn’t a fucking political party. You can disapprove of their art department breaking the law and play a game.