A big new commercial for PlayStation Japan, pitched as a music video featuring all the platform’s big holiday games, has a lot of cool animation throughout. Pity, then, that loads of it is copied—down to the smallest detail—from other people’s work.
Here’s the trailer in question:
Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of OK K.O.! (who has also worked on Steven Universe and Adventure Time) noticed some of the similarities earlier today, like this sequence:
It appears that @PlayStation_jp made a promo that swiped some of @porigoshi's animation from Steven Universe The Movie. This looks to be more of a direct trace than an homage:
(Steven Universe: The Movie first, @PlayStation Promo second) pic.twitter.com/k8Ru2IjION
— ianjq (@ianjq) December 4, 2019
Animator Oleg Kositsyn found another, where one of his pieces of animation was almost directly copied by the commercial:
My part of the great stolen playstation video pic.twitter.com/weV9jR1Oh9
— bbwb anim (@brdbrwthbeer) December 4, 2019
And here’s an even more damning record, a video put together by Okama Sorteos showing just how much of the trailer is lifted from other artist’s work:
PlayStation Japan has since removed the trailer from its YouTube page.
Queue “We’re still investigating this, but any wrongdoing from our side is not intentional. It might be that one of our artists or freelancers got inspired by sources that they liked.”
Kinda sorta maybe?
https://twitter.com/EallinAnimation/status/1202273300862447617
Good find, I was curious about the specifics.
Talk about professional suicide, he’s closed down all his social media accounts and done an online runner.
(Seems he’s been accused of plagiarism in the past too)
This is SO blatant, like holy shit there’s no way to spin it without them coming out looking even worse.
It’s pretty much frame for frame. Same placement and everything. It’s incredibly damning
Lol, holy shit, I wonder who they used for this?!
A fraud, clearly…
Clearly….
There’s been a lot of this out of Asia at the moment.
But it’s still completely legal and fine with everybody to copy dances and gestures for emotes in games.