Microsoft has been accused of “ripping off” the form and visual effects of various independent creators for its Xbox Series X debut trailer. The fellowship divulged the entitle and motif of their next-gen console and its controller at The Game Awards 2019.

Microsoft firstly divulged the new console, previously known as Project Scarlett, at E3 2019, where it announced the next-gen system would exhaust in Holiday 2020. Microsoft tantalized information about the console, including some spec details and the news that Halo Infinite would be a propel deed, but followers didn’t get a full divulge until The Game Awards in early December. Those hoping for an interesting, glossy layout may have been disappointed by the end result, because it turns out that the next Xbox game console is just a box. The simple scheme impart immediate comparisons to basic PC fortress, but Microsoft said in the Xbox Series X specs disclose that the specific characteristics permitted the company to “to deliver four times the processing power of Xbox One X in the most quiet and efficient way.”

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Artists on social media have accused the new console’s reveal trailer of mimicking their work. Shortly after the reveal, David O’Reilly, architect of 2017’s Everything, the first recreation to qualify for an Academy Award, shared a analogy between the game’s launch trailer and Xbox’s reveal video. Both piece sweeping terrain fires set to old-timey, theoretical voice-overs from similar-sounding narrators. O’Reilly did indicate that he was attempting to draw attention to the affinity in order to prevent people from presuming he was the one who’d copied Microsoft in the future. O’Reilly’s post has almost 20,000 likes.

Replying to O’Reilly’s message about the comparing a few days later, Nicolas Boritch of visual design name ANTIVJ shared another likenes – this time, a side-by-side look at Microsoft’s trailer and a 2015 VFX short-lived movie called “Dry Lights” from ANTIVJ artist Xavier Chassaing. While each video’s audio is vastly different, both demonstrate shootings of a dark, desert-like landcape populated with ripples of light throb over them. O’Reilly provide answers to Boritch’s tweet, saying “Xavier was cheated! “, and a separate tweet from Boritch( embedded below) has 900 likes.

If the Xbox and “Dry Lights” clips shown appeared in sequence, it would be hard to deny the similarities, but the clips Boritch selected from both videos don’t actually are listed in the dictates shown. Additionally, the Xbox Series X controller and console trailer pieces exclusively a solid, radial lamp pulsing moving outwards. While “Dry Lights” likewise features this visual outcome, the committee is also proves several other light shifts, such as unreliable pulsations of light-headed which are going through the desert’s foliage itself rather than simply illuminating up said foliage. As countless in specific comments of Boritch’s tweet point out, the Xbox trailer undoubtedly has a similar thought to “Dry Lights, ” but it’s hard to call it a terminated ripoff. After all, as Twitter user Friedrich Hartmann points out, the “light front narrative” is a commonly used VFX trope.

The same could probably be said for the similarities between O’Reilly’s Everything trailer and the Xbox Series X discover; while both videos are definitely similar, “motivational, old-timey narration over pretty footage” isn’t the most original perception. Interestingly, though, workplace messaging app company Slack shared back in November a same comparing video between a 2019 Slack ad campaign and a November Microsoft ad, so perhaps the company does have a history of following their inspiration a little too closely. Hopefully, Sony can eschew a similar spat when it shows off the design for the recently announced PlayStation 5.

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Source: David O’Reilly/ Instagram, Nicolas Boritch/ Twitter

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