Kindred's artistic design is a rip off

FossaFerox·9/24/2015, 2:19:48 AM·9 votes·11,809 views

The similarities between Kindred's theming and original characters created by Chiara Bautista are painfully obvious. It really, really bums me out to see one of my favorite companies rip off one of my favorite artists. I can't look at Kindred and not see Chiara's work showing through. Riot has a team of talented artists and they resort to this? It's just sad...

http://imgur.com/a/8hONl

19 Comments

ExHentai9/24/2015, 3:25:56 AM8 votes

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This game has no original characters.

GreenLore9/24/2015, 10:09:18 AM6 votes

Honestly I doubt there is much of a connection here. Kindreds design comes from merging the concept of lamb&wolf with Yin&Yang and death(originally intended to be life&death).

With the yin and yang comes already the dark/white color scheme that is similar,the masks are also a result of that(possibly combined with princess mononoke reference). Giving wolf a more pet-like role was mainly because they had trouble making a real double-champion.His more mistlike appearance is a result of giving wolf a head,but no body,while giving lamb a body but no visible head,so there is again this yin-yang theme. And honestly the similarities more or less boil down to: White girl with animal motif(and mask) and dark wolf companion.

I feel bad for Chiara that people now think of her artworks as fanart for kindred,but stuff like this happens all the time,I mean 2 people who never met managed to invent "dennis the menace" at the same time https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/10/18/the-odd-case-of-dennis-the-menace/

Mister Mackey9/24/2015, 2:27:33 AM5 votes

And they ripped off LoZ: Twilight Princess. Oh well

Dreamspitter9/24/2015, 8:10:17 AM5 votes

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The similarities between Kindred's theming and original characters created by Chiara Bautista are painfully obvious. It really, really bums me out to see one of my favorite companies rip off one of my favorite artists. I can't look at Kindred and not see Chiara's work showing through. Riot has a team of talented artists and they resort to this? It's just sad...

http://imgur.com/a/8hONl

I don't see much of a resemblance.

That aside, I did know about this artist.

Tell ya what is a rip off...this thread. Because we've all seen it before.

Icestar11869/24/2015, 2:59:42 AM3 votes

While I understand your (and Chiara's) concern, as the art is similar, such a contrast as artistic device is nothing new and a simple Google Image search will prove it. When I am not busy pretending to do homework, I'll find and post some pictures to illustrate my point.