Final week Bungie blew the doorways clear off its convoluted and mysterious lore by releasing a cutscene that spelled out precisely what The Traveler—that large white moon central to the collection’ storyline—was, and the place it had come from.
For Future followers that should have been extraordinarily satisfying, however it was one thing else for artist Julian Faylona, aka ELEMENTJ21, who seen that a part of the official video certain seemed like a bit of their very own Future fan artwork that they first revealed on-line in 2020.
“I simply realized Bungie took inspiration from my piece for this week’s cutscene”, they tweeted final week. “Definitely took me unexpectedly after I watched the cutscene”. As you possibly can see beneath, the similarities between Faylona’s piece (inexperienced, on the proper) and the artwork in Bungie’s trailer (black, left) present that the phrase “inspiration” is getting used very generously:
In response, Bungie advised 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’re at present ready to listen to again from the artist to take the required steps to treatment this example.”
Whereas these “firm lifts fan artwork” tales can typically be acrimonious—and rightly so, given they’re typically outright theft—on this explicit case Faylona has been surprisingly chill about the entire thing.
“To be sincere, I’m genuinely excited and comfortable that the piece I made 2 years in the past—which, even again then, I absolutely acknowledged relies on the Future franchise—made it into the cutscene,” they stated to PC Gamer in an announcement. “It was completely sudden and fully caught me unexpectedly. A lot in order that I wished to make a shoutout about it.”
