Explanation, Apology Offered for ASR Fan Art Slip
Tristan Oliver | March 12, 2010
PC Download Release Likely to be Patched
TSSZ News has learned Steve Lycett formally apologized on behalf of a Sumo Digital level artist to DeviantARTist RianaLD for the unintentional use of her fan work in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. This is according to an entry in her online journal.
The information serves two purposes: Not only is it resolution for RianaLD, who was thrust into the spotlight Wednesday evening when her work of Sonia was spotted in-game, it also may be of note to you, particularly if you were planning to purchase ASR from a PC download service such as Steam. It looks likely the Sonia artwork will be removed in that edition, according to her update. The artwork will remain in the Wii edition simply because there’s no way to patch that particular copy.
RianaLD, who will be given a gift from Sega for the trouble, says that her work was mistakenly deemed official and only meant to be a placeholder. The gaffe was actually caught by Sonic Team overseers, but was never completely removed from all the final products:
He (Lycett) explained to me that what happened was that early in the development stages of the game, one of the level artists were making placeholder artwork and searched via Google for official Sonic pictures. Apparently, he thought my picture of Sonia was official.
The artwork was sent to Sonic Team, and they noticed that my picture of Sonia didn’t belong to them. They were told to fix this on all platforms. Somehow they missed it on the Wii version and the “low detail tracks” of the PC version. They’re most likely going to remove the image from the PC version, but the image on the Wii version is stuck in there.
He also explained how they never meant to steal or not give any credit or a thanks.
It all makes sense to me. And SEGA staff members offered a degree of compensation (something “nice” out of their so-called goodie bag). I must admit, this is quite exciting!
It’s unclear what, if anything, will happen to the level artist who committed the slip up.
So, the bottom line is that positive resolution was achieved, and for any potential Steam PC buyers: If you want to own a piece of this, you better buy it fast.
Filed Under Gaming News, Hot Topics, On the Desktop, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Sonic Scene
Oh wait, were still doing this? Well, ok then
^Oh wait, you are that loser who lost your YouTube account filled with slideshows? Well, ok then.
Now we know!
I don’t know about you guys but it’s nice to actually see more than 3 newsposts a day on a site dedicated to news about Sonic.
Lmao if you aren’t intereseted in this then why click the new?
I found this quite interesting,
It’s nice to see developers actually caring about something they didn’t have to care much for.
Everybody can slip up. If they send up some nifty stuff to th artist, I’d be fine; hell, what if you made that type of error?
Well I guess I better run over her face as many times as I can before the update.
@NinmicroSega.
Er, random dumbshiited attack for the lulz? Oh and my accont wasnt filled with slideshows, you know that if you didnt jump to the concluion that everyone on YT created slideshows, dummy.
I could think of a few other google images that probably came up during his search.
Uh, Tristan Oliver, Steam forces updates for all of the games offered through its service. You may “better buy it fast” but it won’t do much good once the patch arrives.
Ah, so it WASN’T in the PS3 version. I thought not. Glad to hear the situation has been resolved so easily, at least. SEGA was lucky…they could’ve wound up with a nasty-tempered fan artist!