Usually when a watermark crops up in an image it's because someone wouldn't pay for the material. In Capcom's case, they had the rights to the artwork, shown here:
but inexplicably used stuff that carried IGN's watermark. Confusion, calamity and catastrophe follow. Kotaku has the most coherent coverage.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in (Roto13 was the first.)
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Capcom: The Great Okami Watermark Fiasco
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nice... my submission wasn't original but it made it to your site. sweet
Yay, I contributed!
"kotaku has the most coherent coverage." Really? How bad can the other coverage be. That site is about as easy to read as a Myspace page.
Capcom didn't have the original image anymore. Clover, the design studio that originally made Okami, was closed last year. In fact, a lot of different collateral had to be pieced together for the Wii release. Much of the game had to be rewritten, too. Much was lost and had to be reconstructed.
We should be glad they managed to release this at all, in playable form.
Just another example of how bad american game box art is. Do they even use graphic designers for box art? They broke the first rule you learn in a photoshop class: dont print images from the web.
"Capcom didn't have the original image anymore. Clover, the design studio that originally made Okami, was closed last year. In fact, a lot of different collateral had to be pieced together for the Wii release. Much of the game had to be rewritten, too. Much was lost and had to be reconstructed."
I find that hard to believe. Yeah, Clover was disbanded, but that doesn't mean Capcom can't keep track of their own intellectual property. Hell, there's even an official Okami artbook they could have taken images from.
Unrelated comment but... I think i found a blog ripping this one off.
go back a few older posts to where you see GQ and spiderman 2 http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-03-21T13%3A02%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=8
and then go to this blog
http://photoshopd.blogspot.com/
which appears to be no longer updating, but has the same posts/content word for word as posted by a different blogger.
They should have moved that gradient mask a little higher.
What's even worse is that there's a Photoshop Disasters watermark on the box!
They must have ripped off their own artwork using your blog and some sort of time machine!
LOL at anonymous above me
"Clover, the design studio that originally made Okami, was closed last year."
Yeah, but I find it hard to believe that Capcom didn't request assets from Clover when they found out Clover was closing. I work for a marketing company and we provide assets at the customer's request all the time. If they didn't bother to ask then this disaster is on them.
The artworker probably googled it as a placeholder image whilst waiting to get the proper version from Capcom. Then maybe they got called onto another jobor the artworker forgot, or an older version of the artwork was accidently the one made print ready and no-one noticed. This sort of stuff happens in design agencies all the time.
It should have been proofed properly, but I can see how it would have slipped by. No-one will loose their job because it would have gone under so many people's noses that someone should have noticed. Strongly worded department memo's, ahoy!
At least it gives us something to laugh about here. Bwhahahaha!
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http://www.angelglam.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/20/giselebundchen20090702.jpg
what about gisele legs? Aren't the a little bit strange? Especially her left knee, a little bit smaller than expected!!
... I saw this Ad on italian Vanity Fair of this week...
Valentina
http://www.angelglam.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/20/giselebundchen20090702.jpg
what about gisele legs? Aren't the a little bit strange? Especially her left knee, a little bit smaller than expected!!
... I saw this Ad on italian Vanity Fair of this week...
(i tryed to post it on photoshop disaster but it was not working...)
http://www.hipgirlie.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/gisele001.jpg
sorry, this is correct link
I'm a photoshop disaster...
http://bp0.blogger.com/_qOKBPxVKnm0/RvGADnx7mxI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/gSbz2_iRVAc/s1600-h/gisele-Ipanema-ad1.jpg
anyway if you like gisele you apreciated all those images.
sorry i was not spamming, just a little bit tired today. :(
I cant believe that is true. IGN is not a place to find high resolution images. High resolution okami arts can be find in a lot of other sites, without watermarks. I dont know how anybody at kotaku, even in the comments, have not noticed this before. Its hardly to believe, I will say again, because I never found high resolution on ign to be enough to be printable in a cover. Sorry the bad english.
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You can doubt me as much as you want, but I'm not pulling this out of my arse, guys. It's something that was being discussed on IGN's Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast recently.
If IGN says it's true, I think it's safe to assume that it's indeed true.
So how do you explain why they didn't just use the artbook?
You most definitely wouldn't use a scan from a book for a professional cover such as this. As has been said, I think its far more likely that it was put in there as a placeholder while someone relocated the file, or whatever.
Either way, Okami is a really fantastic game. One of my all time favorites.
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Capcom is now offering replacement covers for the one with the IGN watermark.
http://blog.capcom.com/archives/1154
konami didn't give us a damn thing to build this box , yes they gave us the hi res wolf, but everything else was so lo res we needed to find some other place for art....I did the box but it went thru about 50 other people before it gets printed..i covered it, but when t goes thru changes it got uncovered...the world will never know...
It's not even a Konami game. You're a pretty terrible liar.
capcom, konami, i do so many titles, i get confused..
That, and you're a lying moron.
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