Several of the animations of the trailer for The Game Awards 2019 have been stolen, although it is not the fault of Grasshopper Manufacture, but of an intermediary.
The new No More Heroes 3 trailer that was presented during The Game Awards 2019 was soon going viral … but not for the reasons that Suda 51 and company expected. A few hours after the gala, an animation studio, Studio Plumeau, denounced through social networks that this trailer plagiarized without their consent some effects that they had created in an original way and without leaving third parties there by 2013. “The biggest of the surprises last night at The Game Awards 2019 was to see our animations in the No More Heroes 3 trailer. Who did the bill go through for this? ”, they wrote from the studio at first.
The debate and the witch hunt online was not begged, with some users pointing to Grasshopper Manufacture and others to Studio Plumeau himself, who demanded evidence and even accused that his animation seemed an asset more than anyone can download in After Effects (these are the sparks and sparkles that come out next to the game logo, at the end of the trailer). "This had already happened to us, but not at this scale," commented the study's Twitter account. However, the fault does not seem to come from one or the other. Studio Plumeau has echoed in these last hours that the developer contacted them to explain the misunderstanding and assured them that they had acquired these effects through Envato, a website that sells graphics, videos, audios and ultimately, all kinds of solutions Creative for designers. After contacting the store, the seller was tracked, who was trading without permission with animations from many other creators and who already seems to have been banned and denounced.
What do we know about the game?
This controversy should not tarnish the appearance of No More Heros 3 at the event, which he attended with a very complete trailer about the story. The game, which has already "finished 50%," will arrive exclusively for Nintendo Switch throughout 2020 and will feature several tributes to the originals, such as motion controls in memory of Wii deliveries. Suda 51 said in an interview that his reference for this chapter is being Rocky 3, the Stallone movie, because just like it happened to Rocky in it, Travis is starting to age and must face opponents “at the level of Thanos” while He fights against his own age and against the idea of retirement. For us, never do it.
Also the user responsible was not Denis Kozionov (aka Denis Kozyon) he was already banned from @envato back in 2015 for copyright infringements.
– Studio Plumeau (@StudioPlumeau) December 14, 2019
