Total Eclipse Boob Tracer Sou Miyata Sacked
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 13, 2012 21:44 JST
- Tags: Artists, Comparison, Copyright, Illustration, Oppai, Photoshop, Plagiarism, Total Eclipse
Sou Miyata, the artist recently busted for tracing no less than three pictures in his official Total Eclipse pin-up, has been sacked – and delving into his past works reveals this was far from his first brush with plagiarism, and not the first time he was caught at it either.
Evidence of plagiarism of the most egregious sort was progressively uncovered after the initial discovery of his “Total Eclipse” montage:
More of his works – it is unclear just how many were the result of plagiarism.
The artist’s employers “age” offered official notice of his sacking only days after his antics were uncovered, through a missive so terse it even omitted the customary grovelling set-piece announcement of a “most regrettable” incident:
We would like to announce that on the 10th of June, our company’s illustrator “Sou Miyata” was dismissed.
Additionally, please be aware that from here on the activities of “Sou Miyata” have no connection with those of our company.
There is as yet no comment from the artist himself, although the usual practice in such cases is for the artist to quietly retire for a period as a gesture of contrition after a suitably grovelling statement of regret.
2ch’s role as judge, jury and executioner in these cases suggests the final verdict lies with them:
“Incredibly cold announcement!”
“Sounds like something written by the yakuza…”
“If they wrote anything more they would just end up creating more and more problems.”
“I think there are loads of these guys out there who just haven’t been caught yet. Especially with more realistic art styles.”
“Aren’t there pose collections on sale in book shops for these artists to use legitimately? He should have just used one of those.”
“This guy couldn’t even copy a pose. He traced existing illustrations completely.”
“I bet this wasn’t just a case of him tracing, but the fact that he could only trace and couldn’t actually draw at all.”
“How did this guy think he could become an illustrator? How did they employ him?”
“If creating works of art was so much of a hassle you’d rather trace, why become an illustrator!”
“I can’t help but think this company is trying to escape responsibility by sacking him so rapidly.”
“You think they really didn’t know? They might have known and just let the situation lie.”
“This is not something you normally get fired for. I pity him.”
“It looks like he had been caught at it before so they had no choice.”
“He got busted for tracing the dakimakura, but there were doubts and he was let off. He got busted tracing an eroge – he apologised in a video with the CEO, vowing never to do it again. He traced those pin-ups – instant dismissal.”
“Three strikes and he’s out, seems reasonable.”
“Honestly, after that video of him apologising it would be unthinkable for them not to sack him, he obviously showed no remorse.”
“He didn’t learn from his mistakes at all. Good riddance.”
“He’s getting off lightly. He could have been subject to disciplinary dismissal, forced to pay restitution, and then banished from the industry.”
“This sort of thing might not really be an issue with grey zones like Pixiv, but with commercial works it is absolutely unacceptable!”
“How do you guys even find all these traces! It’s amazing!”
“For this to happen just before your anime airs, it’s the worst, it really is!”
Thinking it is possible to get away with such plagiarism in the face of 2ch’s ability to uncover it increasingly seems more foolish than the actual act…
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"I bet this wasn’t just a case of him tracing, but the fact that he could only trace and couldn’t actually draw at all"
this....all this!
That guy would come again with new alias name.
Photoshop WIN !!!
That guy should just go to China. I'm sure he would fit right in there.
All important question, did the man trace the cat or did the cat trace the man?
The cat lovers are up in arms. They'll rebel and terrorize if it's not ruled in their favour.
the question is how old is that picture of a cat. Oodoru Daisousasen or "Bayside Shakedown" in the west TV series is 15 years old and movies are at the top of boxoffices in Japan.
Maybe the cat saw the re-run and is a big fan that´s why it made that face.
A: "OMG that cat just traced his face!"
B: "No, he traced the cat's face."
it looks alike! You traced it!
Trace on!
My body is the blade of my sword.
Unlimited Trace Works!
I don´t understand this. He created obviously different girls, only poses are the same. What´s wrong about this. In art painters use same poseses & it´s alright & normal, but if somebodody use it in anime, then peeople are mad. Ridiculous, he is innocent & good artist, but thanks to stupid & evil people he´s paying for it greatly. That´s not fair!!
Same poses =/= Tracing
Think of it as this way:
-If he only "saw" the original pic and draws based on what he "saw", than that's passable, No matter what you do with this way, you won't end up with 100% same lines.
-But he "copy pasted" all the lines literally.
It's the lines that matter here not the pose.
Who says you can't end up with 100% same lines?
Draw something.
Now draw it again on a separate piece of paper.
Overlap the two.
Your lines aren't the same.
Draw something.
Now draw it again a couple of million times.
Are there really no two versions that look exactly the same?
If not, do it again some million times and if needed till infinity. There will be two versions that are identical.
I've got to wonder if some of the commenters here are blind.
He copied another person's work line for line. It's not simply the same pose.
@Mere Agreed. The commenters here don't seem to understand that this guy was tracing. He was basically stealing other artists work.
naw, it's just one person (chen-04) with multiple accounts. even sancom isn't this stupid.
I only have two accounts. Chen-04 and Chen-03. But Chen-03 wasn't really an account. At that time (2008) anons could just name themselves whatever and I chose Chen-03.
Who cares as long as it is fapable!
Good Riddance
I'm glad he got sacked...We don't need plagiarizing pieces of shit like him.
I know, seriously. There's shitty copiers like him all over deviantart. I used to draw also, but when I learned that the majority of the artistic community out there are made up of a bunch of dirty tracers, I lost interest in art altogether. I hope this piece of shit starves.
too true, what is worse, some so called legitimate art studios do it too.
just a bunch of pirates there too.
Reiq and cutepet do that. i have seen pieces from reiq that resemble works i have seen years before from artists in HF, and Cutepet copies quite often from webcomics i saw between 2000=2005
Other peoples behaviour made you lose interest in art? Then you probably never had any interest in art to begin with..
You're talking to active deviantart members there, go figure.
Artists care.
True artists don't care. Only people that failed to become artists whine. Mostly because they failed. I mean... if the traced version gains more popularity you really have to wonder what your original did wrong.
Whoa...
The tracers posing themselves as 'artists' at DeviantArt actually has a chance of taking jobs at big hentai companies. lol
What a shame..
I don't even dare to revise someone's work, he is really desperate on doing those..
Or laziness is such the work was done by the team and the result was mediocre, and only signed below.
As already remarked one of the most anticipated is another clone.
It was not just poses but overall characters are very similar.
After still complains of Chinese bad clones, what a shame!
...Nothing you've said makes any fucking sense.
Did you even read the article?
Yes!!! the artist works in manga series and artworks in Tech Gian magazine and a series of well-known visual novel game Mu luv and will be turned into anime.(What is expected soon)
http://muv-luv-te-anime.com/
His drawing style and very similar to its competitors.
too similar(seems coincidental?)
Several Japanese artists complaining of shoddy Chinese copies of their work and now a Japanese is accused of do the same.
If more than explained in this way then you are not understood then who does not FUCKING SENSE are you!!
Ha the Sharingan isn't so useful after all.
Copying poses is worse than copying a character apparently...
I have to wonder.. how many ways can you draw two girls with there faces together that would no considered to be plagiarizing? The human body only has so many varying poses.. So guess you better not be an animator in this day and age because the pose has already been done by someone else after the hundreds of years of animation.
So true there is no such thing as infinite potential eventually there is an overlap between two faces, hair, pose, ect.
Frankly I could never see it; You'll have to be REAL hardcore otakus to pull out to similar poses :P
GodMan said
So true there is no such thing as infinite potential eventually there is an overlap between two faces, hair, pose, ect.
too true, if you are a mediocre artist, because if you are not, that argument is pure bullshit.
Or you could just run some program looking through some databases.
http://iqdb.org/
Indeed. How many different (nice) character designs can you make until it overlaps with another and is considered plagiarizing?
With that said, considering the whole body is 100% identical almost even to the shading, it was overboard.
Still, it looks nice.
if you are a true artists you don't have to worry about such stupid things as saying there is a limited amount of poses to draw/
bewtween the number of different viewpoints (infinite), character designs (infinite), and poses (nearly infinite), limiting yourself in anyone of these categories will ensure a short career as a mangaka/ illustrator/ animator.
Same pose and out right copying are two different things.
The girls even have similar facial expressions. If he had put a brush in that one girl's hand, given the on lying on her stomach a book or something, kick a leg up or just moved on hand he would have been fine.
I think we should Give him Proper credit :D
He's not JUST a plagiarist!!!
He's also a Photoshop Master!!!
if photoshop master actually meant anything, half of 2ch /4ch would be employed
but the characters are different
But, he was tracing them nonetheless.
only the right one seem fully traced the left one has a different pose on the finger and the lower girl is in a bikini