Last week, Bungie dispelled that complex and mysterious lore by releasing cutscenes. It explained exactly what the Traveler, the big white moon central to the storyline of the series, was and where it came from.
for destiny Fans must have been very happy, but for them it was something else Artist Julian Failona aka ELEMENTJ21who noticed that some of the official videos indeed look like part of yourself destiny fan art They are First published online in 2020.
“I just realized that Bungie is taking inspiration from my work for this week’s cutscene,” they tweeted last week. “It certainly surprised me when I saw the cutscene.” As you can see below, the similarities between Faylona’s work (green, right) and his Bungie trailer art (black, left) are “inspirational.” It shows that the word “ration” is being used very liberally.
In response, Bungie said: PC gamer They announced over the weekend that they would “compensate and celebrate their work.”
“We have discovered that an outside vendor who helped create this cutscene erroneously used this art as a reference to be official Bungie artwork. We are waiting to hear from the artist to take action.”
These “companies publishing fan art” talk can often be acrimonious, but it’s not surprising given how often it’s outright theft.—In this particular case, Fayrona was surprisingly calm about everything.
“Honestly, I’m really excited and happy that a piece I made two years ago (I fully acknowledged at the time that it was based on the Destiny franchise) was adapted into a cutscene. ” they said PC gamer in the statement. “It was totally unexpected and completely surprising. I wanted to scream about it.”
