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Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:57 pm
by Rorthron
The thread on the Sabre Wulf cases reminded me of the (cough)
resemblance between Tim Stamper's Sabre Wulf and Underwurlde art and Brian Froud's Dark Crystal work.
Dark Crystal poster, by Brian Froud
Sabre Wulf cover, by Tim Stamper
Underwurlde cover, by Tim Stamper
Re: Ultimate artwork
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:26 pm
by Rorthron
Thete was also this one.
Jack the Giant Killer (1962) movie still
The Staff of Karnath cover, by Tim Stamper
Re: Ultimate artwork
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:12 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
They're not the only ones. There are more examples in other games. The Saboteur artwork is very similar to a 80s ninja film artwork that I don't remember now.
Re: Ultimate artwork
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:34 am
by Rorthron
Did you mean this?
Revenge of the Ninja (1983) movie poster
Saboteur loading screen
Re: Ultimate artwork
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:02 pm
by Ralf
Yes, there was a lot of "unofficial inspiration" while designing game inlays or loading screens in the 80s.
People were more easygoing about copyrights then. Old good times
There was some topic on WOS about it with examples but I can't find it now.
Re: Ultimate artwork
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:17 pm
by Rorthron
I found a couple of WoS threads, but they were quite incomplete and the image links were almost all broken, so I think I'll start a new thread of them here.
The most obvious one is Gryzor.
Predator (1987) movie stills
Rambo movie still
Alien movie still
Gryzor cover
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:25 pm
by Rorthron
I've retitled the thread from "Ultimate art" to "Game art copied from elsewhere", given the subject has broadened.
I've also labelled the images in case the links break in future.
I know this edit is outside the two-hour limit, but I am treating this as a case where you can ask a moderator to make changes.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:50 pm
by Ralf
Okay, if we are not talking about Ultimate only, we can have some more examples now.
Target Renegade loading screen
Cover of How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System, by Joe Lewis
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:11 pm
by RMartins
That guy, as some serious toe issue in is right foot
Back in the day, there was very little art reference, so it was common to get inspiration from movie posters, which were the most common and publiclly available form of art.
Games like Rambo, obviously would use those directly ... but there are a lot more that used Commando (Arnold Schwarzenegger) posters and movie stills from other movies of the same actor.
There weren't that many Connan like body builders back then ... with public photos to server for reference.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:34 pm
by Rorthron
On that note...
Commando (1985) movie poster
Navy Moves cover
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 5:04 pm
by Ralf
And see this stuff from Slovakia:
Phantom F4 II loading screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=24049
Double Impact (1991) movie poster
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:16 pm
by Rorthron
Marvel's The Punisher (1986 1st series, issue 5) / Green Beret cover:
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:37 pm
by Rorthron
Kobyashi Naru cover / The Magnificent (1983),, by Boris Vallejo:
(The Kobyashi Naru picture has been stretched a little.)
The last two came from this site:
http://arcadesushi.com/stolen-images-in-video-games/
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 7:21 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Han Solo?
Rescue cover
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:20 am
by Rorthron
There's a definite resemblance:
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 5:45 pm
by Rorthron
We've already had Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Van Damme. Time for a bit of Seagal:
Above the Law (1988) movie poster
IK+ cover (Hit Squad release)
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 7:35 pm
by Rorthron
I found the next one mentioned on WoS.
Iron Maiden, Killers album cover
Bedlam cover
Funnily enough in that thread Ralf said:
"It would be great to have all these references on new WOS at game records. Threads like this quickly get buried under dozens of other threads and images on the net tend to disappear."
Perhaps this information could be added to ZXDB.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:10 pm
by Ralf
More Arnold:
Slovak game Prva Akcia loading screen:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3907
and Schwarzenegger from Terminator:
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:49 pm
by Wall_Axe
How many games in the 80's featured xenomorph aliens?
R-Type and Gryzor are 2 that spring to mind, any others?
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:42 pm
by Alessandro
Wall_Axe wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:49 pm
How many games in the 80's featured xenomorph aliens?
R-Type and Gryzor are 2 that spring to mind, any others?
Well, the
Alien franchise licensed games of course
Back to topic, I seem to remember that Code Masters were forced to substitute the
Race Against Time inlay featuring Jesse Owens:
(original picture)
with this one:
although the instructions say: "Cover Photo: Jesse Owens, 1936 Munich Olympics, Photograph courtesy of Allsport Photographic Ltd."
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 11:51 am
by Ralf
Does anybody remember what was the inspiration for the little robot from Pssst ?
I remember seeing some photo, probably from some movie, of a robot which looked exactly like the goy from Pssst but can't find it at the moment.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 11:57 am
by MatGubbins
Silent Running
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:22 pm
by Ast A. Moore
Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 11:51 am
a robot which looked exactly like
the goy from Pssst
Oy vey.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 2:20 pm
by Ralf
Silent Running
Thanks! Yes, that's it.
and the movie:
Actually I haven't seen that movie. Guess I'll have to update "to do in my life" list
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:36 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
I've never heard of that film. Just searched some info and it seems quite an interesting sci-fi film.
Curious the way how we can find films to watch!