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...
ExHentai8 votes
Naruto
Naruto
Articuno
Hulk
My Little Pony
Gargoyles
Naruto
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
300
Bowser
The Lion King
Naruto
Assassin's Creed
Batman
Dragonball
Naruto
little red riding hood
This game has no original characters.
Nichiyoubi1 votesnaruto and Dragonball and many other names you listed didn't invent those archetypes :D it's not like anybody has the copyright on ninjas and mermaids - I think it's interesting to see where the inspiration came from. I doubt it would appeal to players if every champion had an entirely new concept (like Bard maybe?) you just need familiar associations here and there to understand what a champion embodies
GreenLore5 votesI doubt that ExHentai was serious about his post,considering that he listed Hecarim as "my little pony"
Nichiyoubi1 votesthat may be ;) actually that post just made me want to share my opinion on this topic in general, even if it's a joke :>
GreenLore6 votesHonestly 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 Mackey5 votesAnd they ripped off LoZ: Twilight Princess. Oh well
Dreamspitter5 votesThe 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...
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.
TheHobbits3 votesAhri the Nine Tail Fox? How could they just rip off another cultures mythical being like that? Gj Rito
Icestar11863 votesWhile 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.
Rebonack3 votesBecause the juxtaposition of predator/prey, yin/yang, dark/light, male/female hasn't ever shown up in character design before.
Digielf3 votesand blizzcrank copied spongebot
Archon X2 votes[deleted]
Thrill Moentral1 votes''this is the first time that someone has drawn a girl with a wolf'' Now, I totally agree with you that's it's not the first time someone draws something like this and they shouldn't think that they got stolen, but wasn't everything else you said maybe just a little overboard?
Amélie Cauchemar2 voteshttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a3/17/0f/a3170f103b5234adc09c04af91e200e5.jpg
Guess your artist ripped off princess Monoke. GGWP.
Catastrop2 votesBecause Stars and Death have so much in common.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesI would've said this was inspired by/ripped off Princess Mononoke first.
Embertine1 votesOne is a celestial wolf, the other a girl with a bunny mask. They are not the same thing.
Fletcher Night1 votesI just think it is kinda strange Lamb has bunny ears in her splash Makes this feel more legit
