Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… but not in the world of corporate copyright. New Chinese fantasy drama Douluo Continent came under fire after its premiere last week when viewers noticed that some shots in the drama’s magical opening credits, created by third party company Visual Impact Digital Production, looked quite similar to shots in the magical opening credits for the His Dark Materials TV show…
You can watch the Douluo Continent credit sequence here:
And here’s the opening credits for the first season of His Dark Materials, designed by Clarissa Donlevy at Elastic…
As you may notice, the first four shots of each intro appear, at least to this pedestrian eye, to be identical. Viewers also noticed that the credit sequence, um, borrowed some CG animation of a character named Jhin from the League of Legends computer game.
Visual Impact Digital Production issued an apology via...
You can watch the Douluo Continent credit sequence here:
And here’s the opening credits for the first season of His Dark Materials, designed by Clarissa Donlevy at Elastic…
As you may notice, the first four shots of each intro appear, at least to this pedestrian eye, to be identical. Viewers also noticed that the credit sequence, um, borrowed some CG animation of a character named Jhin from the League of Legends computer game.
Visual Impact Digital Production issued an apology via...
- 2/12/2021
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
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