Marcion
(Marcion)
June 15, 2008, 1:31pm
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I was scrolling through Google News today and found an interesting news story.
Make sure to check out the picture of the tomato that they are using. It’s a cropped Blender Image.
I found it hilarious how they thought it was an actual picture of a tomato. Go Blender, and go Enrico Cerica:
Sammaron
(Sammaron)
June 15, 2008, 2:10pm
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hehe that’s kinda neat. i didn’t notice untill looked up close, the hair is pretty bad, but the tomatoes are great
Hobo_Joe
(Hobo Joe)
June 15, 2008, 2:11pm
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Aha! Awesome!
That’s a big compliment to the artist that they thought it was real.
Joel_nl
(Joel_nl)
June 15, 2008, 2:49pm
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not cropped… scaled
but yeah, pretty cool i wonder if they knew it was CG or not.
nice find
I assume they’re running that with Enrico’s permission, but if they aren’t, then somebody ought to let him know about it.
Shatter
(Shatter)
June 15, 2008, 7:15pm
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hehe, that would be a surprise
BigBlend
(BigBlend)
June 16, 2008, 1:25am
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Which can be found here in google search.
PapaSmurf
(PapaSmurf)
June 16, 2008, 5:57am
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art imitates reality…in this case, art becomes reality.
roofoo
(roofoo)
June 16, 2008, 7:28pm
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Am I missing something? Those two pictures are obviously different. The news article has a photo of red and green tomatoes…
Mmph
(Mmph!)
June 16, 2008, 7:36pm
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those are 2 completely different images.
Friday13
(Friday13)
June 16, 2008, 7:42pm
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Well, that was (not-so-) fast.
mattebb
(mattebb)
June 16, 2008, 7:46pm
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Yep, looks like they swapped it out and stole yet another image from google image search instead: http://home.howstuffworks.com/tomatoes.htm
Pretty pathetic.
Hi Guys,
Funny story !
I sent them a email to inform them that the image was a CG artist work and that they can’t use it without the author’s permission. I expected at least a polite answer with some apologises but nothing ! Anyway they got my message as they replaced the image.
Thanks for pointing this, we should protect our works when they are used for commercial purposes.
Did you know that something similar appent to @ndy , http://www.artificial3d.com/blog/2008/02/a-striking-similarity/
If this company had to replace the image, this would be harder for sure
Lumpycow
(Lumpycow)
June 18, 2008, 2:20pm
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Not necessarily weird… I just didn’t want to start a new thread… BBB used for advertising already XD
http://portableapps.com/news/2008-06-07_-_vlc_media_player_portable_0.8.6h
nfollmer
(nfollmer)
June 18, 2008, 2:23pm
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Ah, VLC is a great player so why not play a great animation on it? hehe
Marcion
(Marcion)
June 19, 2008, 8:30am
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Glad you got in touch with them and they removed the image enricoceric. Too bad they just grabbed someone else’s image instead of walking to a market and snapping some themselves.