Forum Topic: Swim The Swan - Art Thief. Proof!

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Posted at: 11/14/07 04:53 PM

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Originally, I accused Swim the Swan of stealing from several flash artists, including bluestone, hans van harken, skyishi, and many more. He stole graphics from Halo related games and movies that were either done or work in progresses, for his flop game "Flash Halo".

Sadly, I did not have ANY to ENOUGH proof. But some new discoveries not only lead me to believe he stole them once again. But I found PROOF embedded WITHIN THE SWF!

Suspicions Arise:
When I first accused Swim of stealing from the person BlueStone, he said he never heard of him.

"Look you stupid ass, we are both using art from a copyrighted game, I have never heard of this shit or bluestone b4, but his game certainly does kind of not really a little maybe resemble my work."

Topic Here for Proof, just scroll down.

At first I thought it was nothing, but then when I browse the NG Alpha for his Flash Halo game, look what I find:
"Who or what inspired you to begin your production?
Halo 2 was my biggest inspiration for this project. Another thing that inspired me was another Halo flash game currently in progress by a guy named bluestone. You can find out all about it here: 343gs.com"

Alpha Link for Proof

But, no one believed me. So I gave up.

Recently, when I noticed he stole more things, I decided to take a peak into his .SWF to get a better look before I jump to conclusions. And lo and behold, the fool leaves THE ORIGINAL PICTURES he took from Hans Van Harken, Skyishi, and Bluestone to trace in his library (you can decompile it for proof.)

HERE ARE PICTURES OF THE LIBRARY, THE EXACT SCREENSHOT HE USED, YOU CAN SEE HIM LOGGED IN AS PROOF (in the first proof screen). AND A SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON OF HIS MODEL AND THE ORIGINAL SCREENSHOT!:

Proof Screen One (Shows Him Logged in STEALING):
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Proof Screen Two (Directly from .Swf as well):

Swim The Swan - Art Thief. Proof!

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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:03 PM

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Ban Him!


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Limon

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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:03 PM

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what r u gonna do call the internet police?


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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:05 PM

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At 11/14/07 05:03 PM, Limon wrote: what r u gonna do call the internet police?

Ya

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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:08 PM

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Wow, you've got a lot of evidence. You must have like a wicka-mad vendetta against him. And I can't believed I offered to help him out with that game.

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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:14 PM

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Your definition of stealing is dumb... for my movie Machete I took screenshots from Tommorrows nobodies characters and traced em... same with paladin and wadolf.. i personally see no harm in it as long as youre making your own symbols and shit...

And for something like halo, ehh its not like master chief is yours anyway.. this seems like a lot of huff and puff over something dumb.

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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:15 PM

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This has the makings of a South Park episode...

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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:17 PM

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Yes, this was certainly a pretty useless thread, why not concentrate on the actual game instead of bullshitting each other in the forums?

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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:25 PM

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Wahah!

Rabble rabble, lets get him!

I've got a great idea. Lets steal HIS stolen art, thus creating a whole new stolen set of art that has been re-stolen. Then, we can pass THAT around and re-steal it amongst the community until we all forget how to draw anything at all and then it really wouldn't be stealing anymore because it'd be the only thing floating around!! Kinda like an STD, only art, y'know? Having your own style is over-rated anyway. Sucks to original artwork and originality! We need to all just start using the same art and doing collabs about video games and stuff!! YEAH!! Spin-offs and recycled jokes. Man, I love recycled jokes. Just look at MY TOONS!! Srsly...

Yeah, so, lets just get on that ASAP.

Oh....wait....


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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:36 PM

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At 11/14/07 05:14 PM, Luis wrote: Your definition of stealing is dumb... for my movie Machete I took screenshots from Tommorrows nobodies characters and traced em...

lol, thief


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Posted at: 11/14/07 05:41 PM

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At 11/14/07 05:36 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:
At 11/14/07 05:14 PM, Luis wrote: Your definition of stealing is dumb... for my movie Machete I took screenshots from Tommorrows nobodies characters and traced em...
lol, thief

yea this thread is a fail.

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