What is the minimum amount of changes you have to make to an existing concept to get away with lifting it wholesale?

You can hardly say N Gin is original either, since he's basically just an Igor/Frankenstein mix, with a little bit of the Phantom thrown in there for good measure.

I can sort of see the Cubone thing, even though it didn't invent wearing a skull over your face.
The other one is a bit of a stretch though.

I don't think I ever appreciated how good the designs in Crash Bandicoot are. The difference in quality is stark when you line it up next to the knock off.

Most games interpreted them as either empty bullet holes or full-on bullets lodged into his chest but original art by Charles Zemballas seen here really makes them seem like sockets or vents. Personally, I like the bullets the best since it paints a picture that someone tried to kill him because he is an abomination. And beause he is an abomination, he never removed them.

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The streamlining, mostly. The jacket being one continuous shape helps a lot. The stylization of the hair is also superior and the design has a clearer shape to it. I say slap on some gloves and attach the missile and it's the perfect N. Gin.

>What is the minimum amount of changes you have to make to an existing concept to get away with lifting it wholesale?

NONE. Borrowing ideas is good, stealing is better. Steal as much as you want from whatever source you want. This isn't about blindly defending a coon or a cartoon you fucks deem ugly for laffs and sport. No, the only art that is bad is the ones that are not made. Draw Jim West with a pen and a pad. Just tryin' to draw just for fun.

The inorganic eye on the metal half and the big expressive eye on the organic half reads better than the big dilated eye on the inorganic half and a normal eye on the organic half. I know what it was going for (a lot of cartooning in the 90s went for that kind of look), but it overcompensated.

it doesnt matter if ideas are 'stolen,' if they didnt know how to flesh them out it wouldn't work as intended.

>it's literally the same design
It's not. The left looks like an evil genius that has tried to upgrade himself. The right is a lot more maniacal and reckless. Like there's already obvious differences
>Boxman wears a jacket and tie
>N. Gin has a frock covered in bullet holes
>Boxman's enhancements completely replace that part of his face
>N. Gin's life support system looks more like a grafted plate
And then there's other, more subtle differences. Like for example, many versions of N. Gin have the plate go over his hair a bit, sometimes even looking like it's pushing it down/over instead of that look just being how it naturally parts. That's a complete difference from the shaved look of Boxman that clearly has the hair completely separate from the robotic bits.

I'm not going to say it's better because I don't care in that regard, but I am going to say you're clearly an ass and would probably call Batman and Superman the same design just cause they both wear capes

Wow, I've played these games all my life and I have never noticed that. That's a cool touch.

they said it's an homage

based Boxman

Maybe the artist didn't want to 'flesh them out' whatever that may mean. What deep character did N.Gin have anyway? Nothing. He was boss somewhere at the end of the game, and you skipped all the cutscenes anyway because you wanted to play the fuckin game.

If Ian wanted to make Boxman a gay icon, voiced by motherfuckin Jim Cummings then let him have it, honestly.

Ask this question to Steven Universe fans, they'll get triggered cause most of their show is taking "homage" to a shit ton of other things.

Hell it would be easier to ask what is actually original from that show.

Greg's non-rockstar persona.

Isn't he more of an amalgamation of N.Gin, Eggman and Wily rather than just having the basis of one character?

Either way, nothing is original.

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I always saw them as plugs. N. Gin was on heavy life support before his transformation into a cyborg, and since Cortex isn't necessarily a good boss I doubt he would shell out the money for a new lab coat

Because Spyro kind of sucks.

Someone didn't read the manual.

>If Ian wanted to make Boxman a gay icon,

I hate that tossed in Epilogue bullshit that made no damn sense.

His personality is the latter two.