Last week Bungie blew the doorways clear off its convoluted and mysterious lore by releasing a cutscene that spelled out precisely what The Traveler—that massive white moon central to the collection’ storyline—was, and the place it had come from.
For Destiny followers that should have been extraordinarily satisfying, nevertheless it was one thing else for artist Julian Faylona, aka ELEMENTJ21, who seen that a part of the official video certain appeared like a chunk of their very own Destiny fan artwork that they first printed on-line in 2020.
“I simply realized Bungie took inspiration from my piece for this week’s cutscene”, they tweeted final week. “Certainly took me without warning once I watched the cutscene”. As you may see under, the similarities between Faylona’s piece (inexperienced, on the appropriate) and the artwork in Bungie’s trailer (black, left) present that the phrase “inspiration” is getting used very generously:
In response, Bungie instructed PC Gamer over the weekend that they “are planning to compensate and credit score them for his or her work.”
“We found that an exterior vendor that helped to create this cutscene mistakenly used this artwork as a reference, assuming it was official Bungie art work. We are at present ready to listen to again from the artist to take the required steps to treatment this case.”
While these “firm lifts fan artwork” tales can typically be acrimonious—and rightly so, given they’re typically outright theft—on this specific case Faylona has been surprisingly chill about the entire thing.
“To be trustworthy, I’m genuinely excited and completely happy that the piece I made 2 years in the past—which, even again then, I totally acknowledged is predicated on the Destiny franchise—made it into the cutscene,” they stated to PC Gamer in an announcement. “It was completely surprising and utterly caught me without warning. So a lot in order that I wished to make a shoutout about it.”
