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[Draugoth]

Senior 3D Artist @Rafaknight_rk is accusing SEGA of using his Amy Model for Sonic Origins Plus without crediting him. The situation sparked some salty drama in the Sonic community.
Here's a comparassion

 

[RoboFu]

So he made the model for sega in the past and is mad because they didn't give him credit for a new game? if so thats dumb. Its not his .. he made it for them.

 

[Draugoth]

So he made the model for sega in the past and is made because they didn;t give him credit? if so thats dumb. Its not his .. he made it for them.

Pretty much

 

[the_master]

Sega most probably owns the model to use ad they want

 

[lh032]

Yuji Naka second account.

 

[Kilau]

They made an Amy model… Sega was trying to protect their identity.

 

[Saber]

What an idiot.
So what? Amy model is Sega property.

 

[Buggy Loop]

What a dumb ass

He just ruined his name for future hiring over the obvious fact that whatever you work on at a company, they own it. It's like that for pretty much everyone.

 

[diffusionx]

This is why everyone, including Sega, needs to avoid Sonic fans at all costs.

 

[Griffon]

What a dumb ass

He just ruined his name for future hiring over the obvious fact that whatever you work on at a company, they own it. It's like that for pretty much everyone.

He should've kept the matter private and offer them a way to solve this discreetly (by putting his name on the credits of the new game).
But drama-queen gotta take everything public immediately. He just fucked up his career over nothing.

 

[TGO]

Guy makes a model while working with them that's based on Sega's design.
Ask why he doesn't get credit..

 

[kiphalfton]

So he made the model for sega in the past and is mad because they didn't give him credit for a new game? if so thats dumb. Its not his .. he made it for them.

Yeah... that's how it works at every other company (i.e. for instance the companies I've worked for have essentially put a clause in my employment agreement saying that any inventions, ideas, etc. that are subject to copyright laws that I come up with while employed with the company belong to the company).

 

[Umbasaborne]

Boo fucking hoo

 

[Umbasaborne]

Guy makes a model while working with them that's based on Sega's design.
Ask why he doesn't get credit..

Just another vulture desperate for someone to feel bad for them on twitter because their parents didn’t love them enough

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

I'm confused, not telling who's right but.... It's a copyrighted character owned by SEGA, so... they could just reply to the guy, did you have our authorization to create this asset of our character ? If yes, then they can just reply "it's our property anyway", I don't know if artist contract mention the fact that his name must be credited forever.

Anyway, that's probably another copyrights/ethics headache question.

So he made the model for sega in the past and is mad because they didn't give him credit for a new game? if so thats dumb. Its not his .. he made it for them.

This exactly.

 

[LRKD]

It sucks not to be credited, for a model you clearly made for them. Yeah he should be fully aware it's quite standard they may only credit you once, and then continue to reuse it forever without even a mention. However I think we should all sympathize a little bit, if they can credit the pizza delivery men in credits why can't they credit the artists? I don't care if it isn't industry standard, the standards should change. But even more of a problem is Sega claiming it was internally made as an original model specifically for this game.

 

[RoboFu]

It sucks not to be credited, for a model you clearly made for them. Yeah he should be fully aware it's quite standard they may only credit you once, and then continue to reuse it forever without even a mention. However I think we should all sympathize a little bit, if they can credit the pizza delivery men in credits why can't they credit the artists? I don't care if it isn't industry standard, the standards should change. But even more of a problem is Sega claiming it was internally made as an original model specifically for this game.

He was not apart of the project and such information rarely gets kept.

 

[SmokedMeat]

His model is essentially a Sonic with bangs and eyelashes. Not like this is some wholly original idea he came up with.

 

[IAmRei]

as long as i know, amy is sega's property. yeah i know it's still suck, but that's also i think, should be mentioned in the contract as well usually.

 

[DeVeAn]

I drew a picture of PAC man in 5th grade. Namco owes me money it looks just like mine!

 

[Puscifer]

This is why everyone, including Sega, needs to avoid Sonic fans at all costs.

Sonic literally wouldn't have found it's grounding again without paying the origins guys to make the games they've been incapable of doing since adventure 2

 

[justiceiro]

I swear, these artist work for pennies as long as you satisfies theirs egos. No wonder most of them end up penniless.

 

[Hudo]

Twitter was a mistake.

 

[MP!]

the mistake was being a sonic/amy fan in the first place