Gaming inspirations

[UrBaN963]

I wasn't totally sure where to put this, or even 100% clear what the topic will become, but I noticed a few things I wanted to share.

I've often wondered about the inspirations artists have, for things they do. For some I'm sure it's a life experience, or a picture they saw or a story they read. Other times, could be 100% made up. Who knows.

Anyway I saw a few things recently which I have, much later, seen elsewhere.

Here are two specific examples.

This is from Star Wars Ep. 4: A New Hope, when Leia sends R2D2 and C3PO in an escape pod with the plans, and they crash on that sand planet.

When R2D2 is captured by the Jawas and loaded aboard that tank vehicle, there are a bunch of droids in various states of disrepair. Anyone remember anything interesting about one of them in particular?

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To me, he looks like the inspiration behind Wall-E. Here they are side by side.
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The next is when they have captured the falcon and are going in to scan it for life forms. They have an equipment box which caught my eye.

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The film, vs what I see as it's modern day counterpart.
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Those are just two.

Have you guys noticed anything like this?

 

[UrBaN963]

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Nobody else notices this stuff?

 

[Ninja'd]

I thought Wall-E ripped off Johnny-5's design.

 

[Readsalot]

135 views and no responses.

Nobody else notices this stuff?

Well, it's kind of interesting, but not really remarkable, imo. It is inevitable that people will either borrow from or pay homage to scenes from movies. It happens most noticeably in comic book movies all the time, where they deliberately include it and call it "Easter Eggs", but Pixar has been doing it for years as well and you also find it in books and art.

It might also have to do with the fact that the production and stage crew sometimes work for the same studios, I suppose.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Have you guys noticed anything like this?

Call of Duty and Medal of Honor has blatantly ripped off war/sci-fi movies.

Wall-E like Star Wars is well, now Disney property. Not to mention that Pixar was part of the LucasFilm computer division.

The Portal crates, that is reaching.

 

[wizardofid]

unless you have actually done 3d modeling, rendering and animation, you are talking though your ass, there is a simpler way to put it.No they don't copy some thing.However similar a model/character animation texture/ may look it's likely it more a coincidence and nothing more unless it call for specific real life models of a hospital scene in a game or movie as an example they will closely follow designs even alter them to some extent.

That said wall-e for example functions looks and operates entirely differently of starwars, because the eyes look the same it must be a copy, actually if you have a much closer look you will find that the robot design is used quite extensively in various arts forms, because star wars did it you are implying that every ones is copying them, which is utterly stupid where do you think the movies got it's ideas from in first place magically appeared out of thin air.

I can say with certainty some one copied the idea from some where else, just because I made a crate and slapped a wood texture on it does it mean I have copied half-life 2 it would be retarded to say the least, as it is such a general purpose object.

What about a space ship corridor like aliens, which had padded walls the idea must have come from some where, the padding serves a specific task in protecting people from getting hurt because NSA used padding in their rockets ships, does it mean alien copied the idea from them ? Every other scifi game set it space has some form padding in it's corridors nothing like alien, but it's there to serve a specific purpose and it is a general purpose object at that so.

Thing is with art production especially with designers, and games, ideas and references has to come from somewhere so you do a lot of research, and pick references that might fit your design theme and copy elements that is useful for example.There is always going to be subconscious art choices as result of some thing you watched, read or whatever the case might be, but rarely do commercial studio's intentionally rip some one off.Besides no one has copyrights on some thing generic as a android eye, the character as a whole would be, but some thing that generic you must be seriously bored to make that assumption....