Fan Art Image Theft
by Elizabeth Harper 
Mar 3rd 2006 at 10:30AM
You may
recognize this image as one of the winners of
the recent one year anniversary contest held for European Warcraft players. However, have you seen this image, art for the Korean MMO Shaiya? They do look awfully similar, and the markings on our supposed
Night Elf's face do look rather poorly done, on second glance. The original artist's homepage contains more work for Shaiya, including a note saying that the series of six
images took two months to complete. Ouch - all this for a video card?
This was originally reported to and acknowledged by Blizzard in this thread, which won't do you much good unless you speak German.
Filed under: News items, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
R.O.B. Mar 3rd 2006 11:58AM
Ha... It seems that the link to the Shaiya image has been broken from being clicked so many times...
I never really thought about this before, but the WoW contest-winning image does look very fake. You can tell that someone simply MSPainted the markings on. I wonder why no one recognized this before? Jeez, even I could blend the markings in better than that, and I suck at MSPaint...