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I was reading Mr Brown’s blog, when I saw his entry regarding the similarity between an animation submitted by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for Animania 2007, an animation competition.

Animation in 2007 by NAFA

Animation by Katy Towell in 2005

You don’t have to watch the full animation. Limit yourself to the first 30 seconds will do. What will be popping in your mind?

Blatant rip off. Ok. Some may use a more mild word. The team from NAFA is “inspired” by Katy Towell. Ah.. if so how come no credits or even ask the original author for permission? What disgusted me even more is the fact that the one by NAFA is less graceful, poorer animation, and rubbishy story. The mirror part really destroys the “magical” and “mystical” feel of the original story.

As if that wasn’t enough, NAFA have got another interesting entry to take note of.

Think out of the box

And thinking out of the box is precisely what the animators failed to do. Wait. Can they even think? The whole thing is a blatant rip-off from the game, The Neverhood created by Dreamworks Studio in 1996. I’m lazy to type, so let me put what I want to say into point form.

1) The environment where the protagonist exist in is very similar to that of the game.
2) The music style is similar, if not the same as that of the game.
3) The protagonist is also a rip-off, right down to the small tailing hair on its head, the red shirt, the wriggling of fingers before pushing a button, and the walking animation of the protagonist are exactly the same as that of Klaymen in The Neverhood
4) The thing about moving the door to the other side of the room isn’t creative at all. A better word for it would be “lame”.
5) Are we so creative as to copy a game from 11 years ago?
6) The protagonist looks damn ugly.

Well, what to do. All these are just small insignificant examples of how “creative” some educated Singaporeans can be.

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