The most stolen piece of artwork on this planet is the vector of Kiba howling from the Wolf’s Rain opening and it actually drives me insane.
For reference this is the still from the opening:
This cafe in my town has Kiba as its logo. Was in town today so I grabbed a pic. You are absolutely right.
I see this on so much stuff
Like poor Kiba he has become the generic wolf logo
Did it ever occur to y’all that this might predate a late 90’s anime? Like it’s some sort of natural phenomenon? Like, I dunno, a wolf howling to its pack at night?
Did it
occur to
you they still stole an image from an anime? Even if it can happen in real life they still stole that image!
Right, so now I’m gonna look it up and see if there are drawings of that (very iconic) pose dating to before Wolf’s Rain.
And, while the pose and backdrop are the exact same, those two images have different tufts of fur, so at the very least, I think someone did a redraw. Does anyone have photoshop to flip the images and compare them better? I’m on mobile
Huh. It genuinely looks like the bottom image is the mirror flip of another image from Wolf’s Rain, but I still don’t feel like bandying accusations.
Wolf’s Rain came out in 2003 and a vector made from tracing a still from the anime was made shortly after by a fan. Since then the image has be taken and reused thousands of times passed off as a stock image for years and it’s such a poular stock image it has ended up as logos for small businesses and such (which says more about the people who ‘designed’ the graphics more then anything lol). But the style of Wolf’s Rain is pretty specific and if you’ve seen the anime you’ll notice the stylistic traits in the vector. The image isn’t some random wolf howling, it’s Kiba, a vector of Kiba. The vector just got thrown around so much over the years it’s better known as a stock image but it’s an obvious trace when you know the source. It’s literally everywhere if you look up ‘wolf howling’ and it just makes me laugh. Wolf’s Rain wasn’t terribly popular compared to other animes released at the time and is much more of a cult classic, so its funny to see Kiba everywhere even when people aren’t aware. I’ve personally seen him on car decals and a logo on a local restaurant and it’s hilarious.
The vector is traced from a screenshot thats about 4 frames after the screenshot jackal took. The head and tail are up a little farther, but its definitely the same pic.
I recognize it mostly from the anatomically incorrect back legs all the characters have.
Also I’m not accusing them of anything I just think its funny.
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