Fabled No Game no Life artist Yuu Kamiya is the latest high profile figure to face some fairly convincing accusations of tracing the work of random illustrators plucked from the bowels of the Internet – which has sadly enough been proven to be a rather commonplace act despite the risks.
The allegations surface by way of Twitter, and come with some fairly numerous comparison images:
So far there is no impact on the artist, his publisher or the franchise itself, but this may yet soon change it seems.
Okay.
Some of the pictures do look they’ve been inspired but as far as exact copies? No. There’s suttle differences between the use of characters, colors and hair or hand expressions. The most part i’ve seen in similarity is with the legs.
Their more like reference pictures than anything else.
Finite number of poses. Every pose possible has been seen and done – Unless someone comes up with a new way to bend a human body.
用中文来说这个完全是拓图（Extension）啊，作为参考（reference）来画的话，根本不可能每条线条都和原图严丝合缝。似乎很多绘画者连画雷同动作都很忌讳的。他怎么能这个样子。- -b
He could have varied the poses at least a *little*.
Was he unable to find a more interesting flavor of the pose he ‘referenced’? It’s all simple 3d shapes (for the proficient artist), after all. Shapes that anyone with a certain skill level can rotate in space with ease. But none of that was done. Not even a simple camera/viewpoint shift up or down was done.
Just because it’s a fact that all art is rooted in copying what is seen (and the more incorrectly it’s done the more ‘stylized’ it is, even if it’s a bad stylization) doesn’t change the fact that art should also be about communication and conveying the artists personal view of the world with the world.
Reaching pretty hard here