The Sky’s the Limit for K-ON!! Plagiarism

Anime uses photographic references for their scenery all the time. It's no surprise and it's very common. Gainax does it a lot in their shows (Gurren Lagann, Kare Kano, Evangelion) and I'm sure every anime has done so at some point. If they were to follow their reference very closely, it is alright as long as those photographs belong to them and most of the time they do.

Oh, c'mon!!! "Plagiarism?!?" Who's gonna sue? God? And as far as that trail scene, I've seen similar scenes all over Germany!

sign that the summer vacation has begun

What exactly do you expect? Should movie crews shooting in a scene in New York gussy up the buildings so they look "original"? Would you rather that clouds looked like some Van Gogh piece? Or perhaps paper cutouts?

Fake serious reaction aside, Artefact is obviously trolling with this one. I don't think even he is jaded enough to actually believe drawing from observation is a bad thing. It is one of the fundamentals of art, afterall.

This is how you're *supposed* to use reference ffs!

Most art is inspired by real things....

Man these guys must be bored as hell.
Why not do something more with your time?
You know like watching other Animes or reading a manga.
Or how about playing a videogame?

wtf?!?! it's a fucking sky what the hell? i wouldn't surprise if they accused u of wearing the same boxxers and such.

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you heard but forgetting where you heard it."

I don't remember who said that but I think it fits here.

I think artefact is running out of ideas if all he can find to post about now is "OMG A DRAWING THAT LOOKS LIKE THE REAL WORLD PLAGIARISM PLAGIARISM!!!!!!1!!!1!!one".

One word reply to this: So?

Is it me or has Sankaku's recent editorial stance towards K-ON suddenly become hostile now that K-ON has been knocked off its lofty perch? lol

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/07/01/top-10-best-spring-2010-anime-most-awaited-of-summer/

I remember it was not too long ago that K-ON was treated more kindly in comparison to Haruhi, which was bashed so Endlessly since last August (pun intended). ;)

So... where're the boobs?

Watch out. Cloud copyright.

Wait, have you read Bakuman?

In one chapter, they say this is okay, as there was a part where they started to plan for their debut manga. They mentioned that they can trace the background from tourist books they found.

So in other words, backgrounds are alright to be traced...

God, they're clouds! Get a life 2ch otaku! @_@

What? Really? Even for this blog, this is ridiculous.

I guess 2ch is the true birthplace of trolls, not USA :)

I thought this meant they had stole the footage from the web and copied it. But the way you describe it is nothing new.

Pretty sure this is the cloud from Cross Game. You know? That one cloud that is on some many episodes.

Few thousand 2ch idiots looking 4 some trouble? Nothing new. They must be pretty bored, let them have their fun xD

And a random formation of condensed water is licensed to bloody whom?

Oh come the fuck on now. You can't claim creative rights to the clouds in the sky.

Someone really needs to learn the difference between plagiarism and referencing.

Is the portrait of Mona Liza plagiarism as well? Because Da Vinci sure copied the face of a girl.

I wonder how they found that photo?

Wow, those otaku sure are something! To go out and find the SAME CLOUDS they used as a reference when making the anime! That must have taken some searching compared to when they do it for streets and landmarks!
;)

Yep at first when I saw anime it was amazing how 'real' some of the details looked from background scenes to characters. Turns out Japan was Simmonizing all along. That is Tracing photo after photo and multiple catalogs for women's clothes. Prior to 1999 or whenever it was they quit making anime with hand drawn cells it may not have been very clear it was being done. But now that its all done by computers details are almost exact as the original real life photos.

So... what?
If they can cut corners on production costs, not causing job losses, staying fresh and (most importantly) out of other people's IP (not getting sued in the process), moar props to them.

I myself once worked on a script to automate certain bits and pieces of graphic design for a game (drawing takes you know ... time).

What, you want 1 mil/ep art like Afro Samurai with the level of "piracy" nowadays :D ?

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I died a little inside.

It seems the actual meaning of plagiarism has been forgotten...

2ch people can be stupid sometimes.

Maybe one needs to get out more if one needs a reference picture to draw clouds.

Only the otaku care about minuet things like that while the rest of us would say, "it's a freakin cloud....". "But at least this cloud doesn't have blond spiked hair and makes up portions of his life because he failed so miserably"

Oh who the fuck cares! Artists use photographic references ALL the time. If they didn't, you'd only have ugly shit like Spongebob and Flapjack. People use references. Get over it. And besides, there are considerable differences from the animation from the original, so it's not like they're simply running them through photoshop filters. Someone is painting over the photo references, and that is something that is done on a daily basis by hundreds of artists around the world.

2ch detectives did it again...

Oh forget that, Jun needs more love.

I don't get why people even bother bringing this up in the first place.

Japanese people copies everything they like. Just see how do they copied european culture into their cartoon.