Geoworld and plagiarism

[Manatee]

I didn't realize Geoworld is so popular here. What is the appeal? Besides the Guanlong, the models are more or less subpar.

I dislike Geoworld as well, mostly due to their infamous plagiarism and lack of good quality figures; I agree that the Guanlong is better than most, and the new mammals appear to be of decent quality. I would also rather buy CollectAs from a couple years ago than Geoworlds for obscure species.

[Takama]

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[Manatee]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but the Jurassic Hunters Jobaria literally has the exact same coloration as the CollectA model.

[Takama]

Here is the rest of them

[tyrantqueen]

I spotted some

[Takama]

I spotted some

Oh the irony, they ripped off TWO artists to make one product.   They took Sepp's for the figure, and they took this for the card

[Gwangi]

Ouch, that's pretty bad.

Don't forget the Australovenator, forever destined to be depicted with leopard spots.





Becklespinax

[Manatee]

Ouch, that's pretty bad.

Don't forget the Australovenator, forever destined to be depicted with leopard spots.





Becklespinax

I instantly spotted that Becklespinax. "Remove the spikes!"

[tyrantqueen]

That Yangchuanosaurus looks suspiciously like one Mineo Shiraishi's, but I can't put my finger on which one it is.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if every single image was stolen. We just haven't been able to track down which ones they are.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

The size comparison picture is the Dinos of China Mamenchisaurus:

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vs.

[DinoLord]

The Agustinia looks very similar to the Procon model

[Yutyrannus]

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Also:

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[tyrantqueen]

Actually that Acro was directly ripped off of Brett Booth's drawing.

This one: http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_3383/subcat_26847/Acro2New.jpg

[Mauro "Raptor86"]

And do not forget that they copied the protoceratops from deviantart:
http://red-dilopho.deviantart.com/art/Protoceratops-Sculpture-92508230
http://paleo-nerd.blogspot.nl/2013/01/protoceratops-by-geoworld-jurassic.html

[Sim]

Actually that Acro was directly ripped off of Brett Booth's drawing.

This one: http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_3383/subcat_26847/Acro2New.jpg

I think Pachyrhinosaurus is referring to the Acrocanthosaurus in the size comparison.

[tyrantqueen]

Actually that Acro was directly ripped off of Brett Booth's drawing.

This one: http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_3383/subcat_26847/Acro2New.jpg

I think Pachyrhinosaurus is referring to the Acrocanthosaurus in the size comparison.

Yes, of course. My mistake

[ItsTwentyBelow]

I was never interested by these very poor figures. The way they just exploded onto the scene recently, claiming "scientific accuracy", yet produce this junk, has always seemed so...cheap to me.

These many revelations just make me think less of GeoWorld.

That Eustreptospondylus is a horrible mangling of this nice illustration:


You can see the art style is exactly the same, and they even just copy-and-pasted the left leg for use as the right leg too. Just awful.

The Carnotaurus is an almost perfectly identical copy of artwork from a 2-page spread in The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs by David Norman, 1997. Nearly exact.

No thanks, GeoWorld!

[Horridus]

Hello, it's me again. Hey, it's been a while.

I had to comment on this, though. Having had a look through the info card images, all of them seem familiar, and some more than others. Other than the ones already described, there are a few obvious GSP knock-offs (the T. rex for example), and even a few that are nabbed from John Sibbick's work for what I like to call the Normanpedia - i.e. the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, authored by David Norman, from 1985! They illustrations in that book possibly constitute the most ripped-off palaeoart of all time, but even so, it's hard to believe that they're still being copied in 2014. I'd point to the Hypsilophodon for starters.

[DinoLord]

Great to see you back Marc! Now that you mention it, some of these are rather Sibbick-like. But then again, his influence has extended pretty far in paleoart so it's hard to say.