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I agree with Jesper here, I think this is just insane that the art directors let this through. Say, for argument’s sake, that Dan is not all mentally with it and just messed up because he is old or whatever. I don’t buy it, but just say that is the case. How does no one at WoTC stop this from going through to PRINT? I can see immediately something is very wrong with this, and I can immediately see that it looks very close to the original The One Ring.
And TOR is not “some card” it’s the most sought after card in the last few years, fetching the highest sale price of any card ever. It’s literally the most expensive and sought after card in the entire game. And they’re not putting this art side-by-side with the original ONCE? There’s not one person who has seen the other card?
Just look at the edges of the ring, it’s clearly very poorly cut out of the image and pasted digitally. It’s super clear to anyone with any digital editing experience that this is a hack job. How does this go to print!!!
@mike perhaps WOTC is overworked and understaffed because they’re going through layoffs while also having to push out 7 sets a year.
Maybe they barely even glanced at the final result because it’s Dan Frasier and they know he does good work. Or maybe it got lost in the shuffle.Yea I think you are right on this. They just trust Dan and no one wants to challenge that perhaps.
Hey I’m out of the loop, could you fill me in?
@Postmortal_Pop @mike
It recently came out that Dan Frasier’s art in The One Ring box toppers poorly copied a previous One Ring artist.
You can see in the left that the ring is blobby and the script hasn’t entirely been blurred outFrasier admitted to copying it in as reference art and then not properly painting over it, and apologized to everyone including the original artist.
WOTC apologized for not catching it, and is now paying the other artist and crediting her work in the digital versionOh wow, I’ve seen memes with better Photoshop than that! Honestly I’m at all shocked, I expect wotc would be compensating artists with reduced floggings instead of money if they could get away with it.
100% the money came with a big legal document attached to it saying “Don’t take any legal action against us or give us any bad publicity”
It is pretty telling when one of Magic’s original artists says he does not trust wotc.
It’s such a weird situation. Like on one hand, these kinds of things don’t happen as a mistake. You can’t accidentally Photoshop another artist’s work and submit it as your own. But at the same time, it seems weird that an accomplished artist would submit such an obvious hack job. With the last time we saw plagiarism (Jason Felix and Crux of Fate) it was with a relatively unknown fanartist, but this is literally the previous art for the same card, which was massively relevant in basically every format it’s legal in. There’s no way someone wouldn’t notice, which makes it even stranger that the art directors did not.
Just a terrible situation, and while I don’t think there’s any excuse for this, there’s still a lot of questions on how this ended up ever going to print in the first place
