Playstation Japan Promo Uses Animation Traced From Multiple Artists

[-Peabody-]

Here is the original tweet from IanJQ.




I thought it was in poor taste that they heavily traced some animation for one of their promo videos but apparently it wasn't just from the Steven Universe Movie.





The original video: Edit: The original has since been made private but others have uploaded it on Youtube.

 

[ryu_highabusa]

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[Zippo]

I don't understand how they think they can do this and not get caught.

 

[Deleted member 8196]

Yoink

 

[Papercuts]

Ooof. The pulls from multiple sources too, pretty open and shut case there.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

I was wondering about that FLCL part.

 

[Kemono]

How do these artists think this'll turn out if their bosses catches wind of this? Someone at sony japan is going to get fired.

 

[RockmanBN]

You made this? I made this.

 

[Gundam]

Wow that's really fucking shitty

 

[Gartooth]

Wow, extremely bad with all the different examples being found.

 

[Timewarp]

Whoever was hired to do these animations is screwwwwed beyond belief. Why would you copy so heavily when contracted by a large company? The internet police will always catch this stuff.

 

[Rassilon]

naughty tracers

 

[Syriel]

I don't understand how they think they can do this and not get caught.

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How do these artists think this'll turn out if their bosses catches wind of this? Someone at sony japan is going to get fired.

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Most likely answer?

It was outsourced to the lowest bidder and not done in house.

 

[Mory Dunz]

I don't understand how they think they can do this and not get caught.

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right
people can pinpoint animation segments from media they watch easily

 

[Deleted member 45414]

Someone fucked themselves over

 

[SinCityAssassin]

The middle tweet there doesn't show a comparison.

 

[-Peabody-]

The middle tweet there doesn't show a comparison.

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Fixed. I changed it originally because I thought it clogged up the post too much.

 

[MondoMega]

This frame-by-frame comparison really makes the trace clear. All of these examples are extremely blatant; and it really makes me wonder how much of that promo is actually original animation.

Someone is certainly losing their job over this.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

They traced over a naruto fan animation practice sequence.

 

[RestEerie]

RIP to that trailer intern...

 

[Modest_Modsoul]

The trailer ought to be taken down.

But some probably already download it for posterity.

 

[Deleted member 2254]

Had they ripped off one semi-unknown animation chances are they could have gotten away with it, but they ripped off like everything, including a major IP's recently released movie. I mean, wow.

 

[xEik]

Someone thought: "If the ending of Stars Align got away with it, so can I." :P

 

[texhnolyze]

Most likely answer?

It was outsourced to the lowest bidder and not done in house.

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The one that approved them is still Sony. You probably didn't imply this, but they simply can't just act innocence for this.

 

[Strings]

Welp, whoever they hired to do that for them is about to land in some well-deserved trouble.

 

[Valcrist]

It seems like people think that Sony wanted this done, which I seriously doubt.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

discover your next favorite promo

 

[Deleted member 8852]

What is this shit.

 

[xEik]

In before someone says that the music sounds like the ending of Kare Kano. ;)
About the tracing, that's bad and if the excuse is you are doing it as a homage, be more open/honest about it.

 

[Deleted member 873]

🤢

 

[Rotobit]

It's one thing to copy major movie sequences, it's another to go after fan projects where the victim doesn't really have a platform to call it out. Real gross.

 

[Khanimus]

There's homage, and then there's theft.

Yeah, someone is getting fired.

 

[Richter1887]

Somebody is getting in huge trouble later today.

 

[Deleted member 21003]

That is pretty blatant. Gross.

 

[stormfire]

 

[Princess Bubblegum]

Wow, really curious who worked on this.

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Can't see the details since this person apparently has me blocked for Lucifer knows what. 🤷

 

[panda-zebra]

The Limbo of the Lost of trailers.

 

[GTAce]

Jeez, not cool at all.

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lol

 

[HellofaMouse]

my guess, is that people who grew up in an era without internet, think that they can get away with plagiarism

 

[amoy]

Description names Kevin Bao as director for this? But no studio. Welp, somebody done fucked up.

 

[Valcrist]

I still get surprised when people do shit like this, knowing the detective power of the internet.

 

[radiotoxic]

The Limbo of the Lost of trailers.

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hahahaha, holy shit!
ROFL

 

[ClayModel]

Tsk tsk Sony.

 

[gachapin]

The link of the animation director in the description got 404

http://cnct.work/artist/kevin-bao/

 

[SinCityAssassin]

 

[-Peabody-]

So is there even one original shot in the entire video? Jesus

 

[Naga]

Goddamn, those examples are pretty blatant. Seems like we're getting new ones too.

 

[Lunchbox]

This will be talked about.

 

[DeadmansTheory]

 

[Papertoonz]

well it looks like sony noticed as they took the video down