29Sep/109
MOJO ripping off Parkour Video.
Found a animated project with a print of the exact concept illustration of Parkour Motion Reel. This is the 3rd version ripoff from the MOJO website, http://www.mojo.sg/work_rugbysevens2010.html
and this is the 2nd ripoff video
original page is here. http://www.moinid.com/2009/12/parkour-motion-reel
this is seems to be the original
September 29th, 2010 - 21:56
Using the same medium or technique is not the same as plagiarising. Are you going to make posts about college students using pencil tests supposedly “ripping off” Disney or something as well?
The stories are different, the content is different, the art style is different. The technique used is the same. This is not plagiarism.
October 1st, 2010 - 14:47
Hear, hear.
October 1st, 2010 - 14:54
More importantly….that 2nd “rip off” video is pretty amazing. Those are some pretty fast hand skills. It always impresses me when you realize how much practice and repetition must have gone in to learn a sequence of motions like that. And it’s not a time lapse video like the original but real time. Also the parcour theme is well suited to the technique.
Being cheeky…
Perhaps this a rip off the daft-punk hand dance video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq–Nw
October 5th, 2010 - 18:30
“Are you going to make posts about college students using pencil tests supposedly “ripping off” Disney or something as well?”
No, because animation pencil tests/college work are done for study and learning. The difference here is that Mojo took the idea and used it to get paid. This was work done for Discovery Channel Asia.
“Using the same medium or technique is not the same as plagiarising.”
I get what you’re saying. But let me ask you this; If I started painting in the same technique as Jackson Pollock doesn’t that undermine his work, as well as make me look like a hack? Part of the appeal of Pollock’s work was his technique. I would argue that the appeal of these two videos are the technique in which they are done. No one is going to watch either of these and think about the amazing story telling in these animations, instead they are going to think “Oh hey, its cool how they did that.”
Take into account that one is done by a design studio and the original is done by one person. It is sad to me that a group of creative minds could not develop a more original idea. It may be better executed, but they are most certainly relying on the technique used to make the commercial interesting.
October 9th, 2010 - 01:35
Using the same medium and technique isn’t a rip. Are you saying that because one person used it, crudely, then nobody else is allowed to use it ever again?
So everyone who does computer animation who isn’t the first computer animator is a bloody plagiarist, amiright? Or stop motion animators? Somebody had to invent it. I guess everybody else is just a copycat.
Your Jackson Pollack analogy doesn’t make sense. His technique contributed to his visual style and content. That CAN be plagiarized. But if I used the technique of splatter-painting to make a discernible portrait, no I would not be plagiarizing Pollack.
You are an idiot.
October 9th, 2010 - 05:53
I know its the internet and all, but it is completely possible to have intelligent conversation without name calling. Even if the two parties disagree. Try growing up, thanks.
November 1st, 2010 - 20:54
The name designpolize is a ripoff.
Stupid name, why didn’t you steal a better one?
December 7th, 2010 - 23:10
i wouldn’t call this plagiarising. It’s the same technique. Donato Sansone wasn’t the first to do this type of thing either. Stop Motion animation incorporating the body and physicality of the artist has been done for decades. The NFB has films with this technique stemming from the 50′s and 60′s. It’s not new or avant garde. Just different form most of the stuff we see everyday in mainstream media.
November 25th, 2011 - 21:46
Not plagiarism. Simply adopting a new technique. In my eyes, for the post to be an act of plagiarism the follow up video would need to follow the same story line, done in the same artistic style. That’s like saying that anyone who makes a flip book is plagiarising because they’re making money off of someone else’s idea.