Separated at Birth? Or lightboxing?

[roseembolism]

Courtesy of rpg.net, we have two pictures: On the right, dante from Devil May Cry, and on the left, a picture from the new Hunter supplement from White Wolf.

What's amazing is not only that that this is so utterly blatent, but that the artist obviously thought nobody would notice what he'd done with a popular video game character. Maybe he had a right to do so (I for one couldn't tell Dante of DMC from Dante of Clerks), but he underestimated the eye for detail of the readers.

Fortunately, based on the response, some artist is not going to be working for White Wolf any more. Hopefully he'll have similar trouble in the rest of the rpg hobby.

Comments

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Did I? I honestly don't remember that conversation. In any case, it wouldn't be right in either case.

Now, if it were something like a medieval or even Victorian public domain art piece, there might be a case to be made, but not from anything that would still be under copyright.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

ars brevis, wife's memory longa

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

Burn!

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

*pout* If I'm going to be mocked on my livejournal, I'll give it up. And take a long vacation. To Alaska.