Marathon cinematic short director, Alberto Mielgo, speaks up about the AI questions and the plagiarism scandal tied to the game, calling the situation a genuine mistake that’s been blown out of proportion.
… it was very quickly pointed out that half of the art department leadership follows ANTIREAL [The artist who was plagiarized from] on social media and that her profile looks like a concept art sheet for the game because of how much inspiration is derived from it.
It would be a lot more understandable if it was a single asset. I think the whole story speaks volumes to the amount of people who signed off on these decisions and points to it not being an accident.
https://esportsinsider.com/bungie-marathon-controversy
It would be a lot more understandable if it was a single asset. I think the whole story speaks volumes to the amount of people who signed off on these decisions and points to it not being an accident.
Well, I stand corrected, I hadn’t been in the loop as to how deep this really ran.
They probably would have saved a ton of money and bad PR by just paying ANTIREAL for this work.