1000 hours in paint

totally not the huge deal some are making it out to be.

to the guy who said he could do better than the cover artist; wtf do you mean? are you incapable of making mistakes?

someone somewhere will laugh about this, change it and nobody will care by tomorrow.

Did this guy lift it from the IGN site? That right there is strike 1 and he should be fired for that reason alone. Who the fuck lifts a web image for mass print usage? Dumbass. But the fact that he missed an entirely different logo . Did they simply ask the office secretary to "Photoshop it out?". There's no reason to even fucking open Photoshop aside from color correction, assuming it's a different printer handling the output of this box art than the previous one, which should take all of 32 seconds. But still, didn't they have the original source work?

psycho_terror: This is actually a pretty huge deal, and trust me, I'd love to take his fucking place and show him how it's done. I'm a graphic designer four years removed from college, and I work for a fucking newspaper...this guy screams amateur straight out of college. It's not like he had to redo the artwork on his own, it was merely a matter of placing an existing file in a Wii template and sending the fucker to press. Doesn't get much simpler than that, but instead this guy fucked up and Wii Okami owners get a flawed piece of packaging.

i feel sorry for them.. only because; imagine how many people are going to bust their balls over this.

kinda pathetic really

Wow thats intense

Hah. What a scrub.

I wonder if IGN could sue Capcom for this? It would be ridiculous, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised...

I bet that at one point someone at Capcom saved IGN images and got them mixed in with others..then accidently sent those to the artist.

@eques-ardor.. Nice work mon. 10/10

Also, I hear IGN logos make for great scooby snax!

To agree with robotplague, my wife is a graphic designer. There have been many times where she'd tell me about how some company would ask her to do a piece, but either not provide the images or give her ones that she can't use (too small, low resolution, etc). A lot of the stuff she does is for internal distribution, so sometimes she can go out and grab some similar images off the Internet. But, she always makes she removes anything like a watermark.

Something that is for distribution among the masses, she has to go through her bosses to purchase stock art from appropriate sites. And depending on the company she's doing work for, they may budget for stock art purchases for internal pieces.

It's hard to imagine that Capcom couldn't provide artwork for the designer. Really sounds like someone was too lazy to contact Capcom for proper artwork, or Capcom just didn't care.