Film director slams Resident Evil Village for allegedly stealing monster designs Dark Sky Films \/ CapcomA movie director slammed Capcom for Resident Evil Village\u2019s monster design after a side-by-side comparison of creatures showed striking resemblances to one another. Richard Raaphorst directed Frankenstein\u2019s Army in 2013. The film featured dozens of grotesquely imagined monsters who were maimed and then put back together with mechanical parts. Well Capcom\u2019s new entry in their Resident Evil franchise has monsters in the same theme, but people noticed that a few of the characters were too similar to the other. This got the attention of the director who was surprised to see his film being an apparent inspiration for one of the biggest video game releases in 2021. Making a mini thread of how weirdly similar some of the monster designs are in @RE_Games Resident evil: Village & @RichRaaphorst’s Frankenstein’s Army (2013) \u26a0\ufe0f!Creature Design Spoilers Ahead!\u26a0\ufe0f RE:VIII On the Left, Frankenstein’s Army on the Right. pic.twitter.com\/RH06esjBCa \u2014 CloneKorp \u2013 live weekdays @TWITCH! (@CloneKorp) May 9, 2021 \u201cIn 2013 I directed my film Frankenstein\u2019s Army,\u201d Raaphorst said on a LinkedIn post. \u201cIt\u2019s a crazy monster movie filled with my own creature designs, one of which has been used \u2013 completely without authorization or credit in the newest Resident Evil game.\u201d A Twitter thread by user \u2018CloneKorp\u2019 showed the designs from RE: VIII on one side and those from Frankenstein\u2019s Army on the other. Read more: Corpse Husband thirsts for Resident Evil Village\u2019s Lady Dimitrescu: \u201cIt\u2019s the hips for me\u201d – The biggest similarities came from Strum, aka Propeller Head, who has three blades from an aircraft imposed on where their face would be. Oh dude, this is worse then I thought. First I felt angry, then proud, but now I see this, I feel sad. \u2014 Richard Raaphorst (@RichRaaphorst) May 10, 2021 In the movie and the game\u2019s boss fight, there are moments when the creature\u2019s head engine lights on fire. This is another similarity in design that\u2019s caught the attention of people around the net. \u201cOh dude, this is worse than I thought. First I felt angry, then proud, but now I see this, I feel sad,\u201d Raaphorst said after seeing CloneKorp\u2019s thread. The filmmaker told PCGamer that he isn\u2019t seeking legal action against Capcom for their monsters in Resident Evil Village. He did say if he was a source of inspiration, that he wished Capcom would have told him beforehand about the creature designs and credited him for his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Film director slams Resident Evil Village for allegedly stealing monster designs Dark Sky Films \/ CapcomA movie director slammed Capcom for Resident Evil Village\u2019s monster design after a side-by-side comparison of creatures showed striking resemblances to one another. Richard Raaphorst directed Frankenstein\u2019s Army in 2013. The film featured dozens of grotesquely imagined monsters who were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}