"misread information"!?  Jesus Sergey.

Jesus Christ, in case anyone was somehow still considering this:

These are the same people who made this - apparently the game with the worst metacritic score ever, a truck racing game which they thought was fine to ship without any ai.

Also, they created some of 'their' artwork from The Walking Dead - info on Reddit

I think now I can confidently say I will never be playing this.

So the game that sounded like a lazy cash in / scam from the start has turned out to be a lazy cash in / scam?

Lol, I've never seen Big Rigs in action. What was the other racer EDGE recently gave a 1 to?

What the fucking... what?  A ghastly, risible mess.  Fucking village Bransons.

Steam are offering refunds to anyone not satisfied, which is pretty good.

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Also out of the 8 pictures they show only 2 are from the Walking Dead...

No offense taken. 
What you are suggesting sounds easy but in actuality it isn't. 
You find the camera (mobile phones aren't ideal), it has no batteries, you get a colleague (who is just as busy as you), you make them pose, you take the shots, you get them into a computer and start messing around with the lighting, you start working them into your scene, then you realise the lighting isn't coming from the direction you want so you have multiple light sources, so you have to reshoot your colleague. Who is now moaning.
You then start to realise that it's actually very hard to draw torn clothes and make them look real, then you realise it's actually harder than you think to mock up torn flesh and wounds. So as you are making several aborted attempts at all of these different issues your boss/client is demanding results. 

It's far easier to google image search zombies and modify them to your needs. 
Duplicate wounds and jig them by reversing or dis-proing them, take torn cloth and blend it in etc...
If that zombies not quite right there are more on the Internet. One will suit. 

Honestly as a illustrator/designer you are expected to churn out art like anyone working in a factory sticking doohickeys on thingamajigs.

Edit
As an aside NO ONE wants to pay for anything any more. Clients/studios won't pay for photography or shoots.
And I worked with a giant client for 10 years. Not once did they do a shoot or pay for stock photography. 
A company that we all know and only some love.

I get the same thing with the websites. I do a quote which I know is fantastically good value and they look at you like you've just told them Double Lollies cost £99 in your sweet shop.

Or rather they just don't reply to the email.

I've just had this with a client, they have a fruit & veg wholesale business, and it looks like we'll be doing their vans (they have around 25 Sprinters/VW's) and they wanted them to look like their existing vehicles. They all look similar but each have a different piece if fruit or veg on them, the first one I started with was going to have an orange, I asked for artwork and they had none, they said "grab something of the 'net", I said no and that they either provide me with images or I buy them in, they said can't I just photograph an orange and use that, I said we'd need to get a photographer in as it would need to be properly lit etc. They finally relented and let me purchase the image rather than using a shit image, an image off the 'net or getting a photographer in.

Do you know how much the image was that started this whole wasting hours with calls and emails and
explanations? £25, that's all, but the customer just doesn't have the slightest fucking idea and just thinks you're trying to rip them off. They are cunts who haven't got the slightest idea and just presume that because you work in the sign/graphics/vehicle livery industry you should be able to produce anything they want at no cost, they actually looked visibly shocked when they knew I was on £25k, I had to point out that it works out that I am only on just over a fiver more than minimum wage, or put another way, from somebody who just drives a van between shops...

Me buying a photo of an orange?

vicinity_of_pie wrote:

@pf What i'm getting at is more why is it acceptable at all? Those questions in my first paragraph weren't rhetorical - I mean, if you wanted to make a nice catchy tune for your game but you don't have the right software/instrument/musician etc. you can't just go find some music you think will fit, cut, edit it, add effects etc. just because it will save time and you'll be able to produce work faster. I mean you could but if the work was recognizable then you'd likely have a few pretty pissed off copyright holders on your case - this is true of other artistic works. I'm surprised it wound you up because quite honestly, I don't think this is common knowledge at all. Again, just trying to understand where the difference lies.

I have no idea why its acceptable over the examples you've given, but thats what needs to be done to get things done.
I suppose it's similar to music type people, getting a base rhythm from a track and wobbling it around to sound like something else and then layering it into music they created, if its recognisable then you have to go and get permission or give a credit. In fact that's what most graphic designers essentially do. Plus its such a prolific field work wise that you could sit down, and create something completely off your own back and I guarantee if someone looked hard enough they could find something similar by someone else.
Any designer worth their salt has a folder full of 'inspiration' i.e. other peoples work to crib off.
You are constantly treading a fine line of copyright infringement. And the old 'recognisability' thing is such a grey area.

It's one of those weird invisible industries, you might not know that many people in it, you might not think it's that important, but wherever you are now, just look around you and everything, literally everything has had some kind of graphic design input, if it's not the thing itself then it's the box it came in or the promotional material that sold it to you.

It wound me up because countless people with no experience or knowledge where calling out some poor soul who probably had 2hrs to produce some images on top of all the other crap he had to do, they probably took the only practicable route open to them, a route that all graphic designers have resorted to, and now the hounds of the internet are on their case.
I'll admit a lot of that frustration was down to being on the receiving end of similar attitudes from clients over the years.

I am not being confrontational here but honestly, what looks like the simplest task, open Photoshop and create a convincing looking wound, with no reference and just the brush tools etc...
Experienced or not with photoshop it's a really hard and time consuming thing to do. Scale that up to convincing looking zombies and you are looking at a few days work.

ruh?

Nice insight into the creative process there.

As an aside, I've never understood what people see in Rockwell paintings. Gimme a Hopper any day. Art, huh.

I sometimes wonder just how many videogames actually have this cover...




yup

g.man