These near perfect proportion matches are far from perfect. It is heavily inspired but thats about it. I am no pro modeller and use blender for editting vehicle models for my hobby game and I could match the proportions to this near perfection in about 30 minutes.
Yeah. It would probably have been more work to take a Pokemon model and modify it to this extent compared to making it from scratch. Some of the designs in Palworld definitely took heavy Pokemon inspirations to the point of almost being a rip-off, but so far the evidence for actual asset theft is not convincing at all.
But even those are not that similar. Tail length, head size, leg length, distance between front legs, ears etc. I have my doubts in this mysterious anonymous “expert”. I may not be a senior character designer, but I also work in 3d content production. I don’t agree with their claims.
This needs way more context and evidence. Right now. this is not a “revelation” but a statement by an unknown person, without providing any actual comparisons of the 3d models so people could judge for themselves. If there is something to it, it should be easy enough to prove.
Thank you. Have to say, I’m not convinced after watching these. Aside from similar body types, there are differences everywhere. Like in the last video, the Palworld model has a concave back, thinner differently shaped legs and a smaller head. It’s a cartoony quadruped of similar but not identical proportions and that’s about it. To prove ripped models, you’d have to show significant sections where the vertices are identical.
If these people robbed the most litigious company in the video game space, I bet it works itself out. Pretty sure Nintendo lawyers have got this under control without any help from XxTwitterSlueth420xX. If there is a case, there is a case.
Corporate fanboys prosecuting the case on social media is some of the saddest shit. Seeing this forum full of communists, anarchists and evangelical pirates get exercised to protect the sanctity of corporate intellectual property is fucking killing me.
The guy admitted to scaling the models to fit, because had a bee in his bonnet about how palworld “glorifies animal abuse”
There’s an interesting conversation to have about where exactly the line between plagarisim and inspiration is, but it’s unlikely palworld devs used stolen assets
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This needs a lot more examples and proper sourcing.
I wanted to upload the actual files but we have to settle for Xitter because Lemmy doesn’t allow mp4
https://twitter.com/covingtown/status/1749462735291859423/video/1
Fucking yikes.
What’s the source of this?
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A random guy online is upset. This is indeed a shocking revelation.
I’m annoyed on the internet, now. This just went from a shocking revelation to an act of war.
These near perfect proportion matches are far from perfect. It is heavily inspired but thats about it. I am no pro modeller and use blender for editting vehicle models for my hobby game and I could match the proportions to this near perfection in about 30 minutes.
The polygons aren’t even remotely similar
Yeah. It would probably have been more work to take a Pokemon model and modify it to this extent compared to making it from scratch. Some of the designs in Palworld definitely took heavy Pokemon inspirations to the point of almost being a rip-off, but so far the evidence for actual asset theft is not convincing at all.
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But even those are not that similar. Tail length, head size, leg length, distance between front legs, ears etc. I have my doubts in this mysterious anonymous “expert”. I may not be a senior character designer, but I also work in 3d content production. I don’t agree with their claims.
Do they actually match???
This needs way more context and evidence. Right now. this is not a “revelation” but a statement by an unknown person, without providing any actual comparisons of the 3d models so people could judge for themselves. If there is something to it, it should be easy enough to prove.
I was going to upload the 3D models but it wouldn’t let me upload MP4 files. Here’s the tweet where you can view the evidence
https://twitter.com/covingtown/status/1749462735291859423/video/1
Thank you. Have to say, I’m not convinced after watching these. Aside from similar body types, there are differences everywhere. Like in the last video, the Palworld model has a concave back, thinner differently shaped legs and a smaller head. It’s a cartoony quadruped of similar but not identical proportions and that’s about it. To prove ripped models, you’d have to show significant sections where the vertices are identical.
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If these people robbed the most litigious company in the video game space, I bet it works itself out. Pretty sure Nintendo lawyers have got this under control without any help from XxTwitterSlueth420xX. If there is a case, there is a case.
Corporate fanboys prosecuting the case on social media is some of the saddest shit. Seeing this forum full of communists, anarchists and evangelical pirates get exercised to protect the sanctity of corporate intellectual property is fucking killing me.
https://twitter.com/ttvPalmer/status/1749992787016053102?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1749992787016053102|twgr^3130f54957e7e6f0216df310c8591d367aab403c|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegamer.com%2Fpalworld-pals-not-stolen-pokemon-models%2F
The guy admitted to scaling the models to fit, because had a bee in his bonnet about how palworld “glorifies animal abuse”
There’s an interesting conversation to have about where exactly the line between plagarisim and inspiration is, but it’s unlikely palworld devs used stolen assets
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https://twitter.com/byofrog/status/1749603138875589081
https://twitter.com/byofrog/status/1749258386552639596
https://twitter.com/byofrog/status/1750178974360068102?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1750178974360068102|twgr^0310580c001f4e14a18ab03a1ebf75ba34bda
Dunno what to tell ya, the xweets are real but yeah no real evidence either way
Im sure time will tell, if there’s a case to be made we know Nintendo won’t shirk at taking it forward
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