{"id":44970,"date":"2012-09-22T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44970"},"modified":"2012-09-24T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T20:06:59","slug":"borderlands-2-box-art-plagiarised-from-popular-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44970-borderlands-2-box-art-plagiarised-from-popular-artist","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 2 box art plagiarised from popular artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British artist Olly Moss has shown evidence that one of Gearbox\u2019s artists plagiarised his art for Borderlands 2.<\/p>\n<p>Moss is a prolific artist in the movie and video game industry, designing posters for high profile films such as The Dark Knight and cover art for games such as Resistance 3.<\/p>\n<p>The accusation came via Twitter, where moss wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;m a huge Gearbox fan so I was really disappointed to see this image inside the Borderlands 2 box,&#8221; following it up with this image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/borderlands-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-44971 alignnone\" title=\"borderlands plagiarised art\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/borderlands-art.jpg\" alt=\"borderlands plagiarised art\" width=\"558\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/borderlands-art.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/borderlands-art-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/borderlands-art-613x1024.jpg 613w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/borderlands-art-149x250.jpg 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of his followers then posted an image of Moss\u2019s prior work, and the evidence of plagiarism is quite damning. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44972 alignnone\" title=\"olly moss plagiarised borderlands art\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art.jpg\" alt=\"olly moss plagiarised borderlands art\" width=\"558\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/olly-moss-plagiarised-art-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moss continued, &#8220;Technically whoever made the image did lift directly from mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also added the go-to guilt trip that he \u201cwasn\u2019t angry, just disappointed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gearbox is one of my favourite developers. Would have jumped at the opportunity to work with them. Oh well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gearbox head Randy Pitchford contacted Moss via Twitter, apologising for the incident and promising \u201cconsequences\u201d for whoever was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re amazing. Inspiration is part of art and you&#8217;ve inspired us. But the bit that was lifted is uncool, so&#8230; consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should be working together to do it right and legit,&#8221; Pitchford added.<\/p>\n<p>To Moss\u2019s credit, he\u2019s remained pretty unfazed about it, replying, &#8220;This whole thing is so far from a big deal. 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