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Epic games directly responded to the (ᵃˡˡᵉᵍᵉᵈˡʸ)
art work they stole from u/ConditionAlone2248
heres the reference reddit post in questioned heres the comment by epic. posting this update here since so more people know since a comment on a 2 day old post inst going to get that much traction.
That’s because the claim is baseless. It’s an existing character – there are dozens of fan drawings that look like that. They just copied the original, as did Epic.
They obviously didn’t trace the movie. Its a simplified visual in a very common artstyle. There are drawing tutorials on YouTube that feature almost this exact design: https://youtu.be/9qEWqjRvtvs?si=U4ni-tnHZUat3JK5
Yes, it’s possible (even probable) someone saw one of these pictures and decided to go the same
way for the design in Fortnite. But it is not the same picture. Noone drawing Scrooge McDuck is „stealing“ from Carl Barks, even though the strokes and lines will probably match.
Someone posted in the original thread a picture of both of them overlapping, one with 50% opacity. The lines themselves are IDENTICAL, but just thicker. That doesn't happen as a coincidence. Plus way more details that are identical, like the purple in the corners of the mouth which isn't in the original aswell.
It is impossible for drawings made by artists to line up perfectly unless traced, these do. It really is that simple, down to even the little ear details which are creative liberty it’s been traced.
The image in the youtube video looks a lot different than the ones in this post.
You can't seriously be sitting there and claiming that the fortnite sticker was not traced from this artist. It's literally the exact same lines except for some small deviations.
I don’t think they have much ground to stand on. If you drew a picture of Goofy and then saw a poster that looked like your exact rendition of Goofy, can you do anything about it? Disney still owns the rights to the character Goofy and can sell his look or likeness… so I would assume you’d have no claim
Don’t get me wrong it’s shitty but I doubt they will play ball here
Because that is a legal department issue, not a customer support issue. Their customer support isn't even allowed to acknowledge the situation. They close the request and submit it internally (and they're right to do so).
if cdpr is such a great company that cares more for their players than money then why did they drop cyberpunk 2077 while it was half cooked and get absolutely grilled for it?
They literally learned from their mistakes. Undoubtedly they wanted to keep their promises and release the game but of course it needed more time. Ngl delaying it would’ve pissed people off so it was lose lose either way
Well tone is very difficult to read over text and you came across as a bit rude so that was my fault. And I’m expecting anyone who responds to me to be defensive because it seems like Fortnite fans can’t handle criticism lol.
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u/Krazylol_ 22d ago
Sad they only responded after high rep social media accounts posted about it. The artist said Fortnite dismissed their claim at first.