robbritton wrote: ↑June 10th, 2023, 4:20 am I hope they don’t come down too hard on the concept art guy. While I understand and respect the position of secrecy and certainly don’t plan to go against that, that posting has done nothing but make people here much more excited to see the film. In terms of generating hype and excitement, it was brilliant.
Playing devil's advocate here (and robbritton, I'm just using your post as a jumping-off point,
not busting your chops)...
I work on design stuff all the time that I know not to put online. And that's for projects where I haven't been given an NDA or I'm required to be "tented." I've literally had to work in what is essentially a SCIF just to make in-store graphics for big brand companies because leaks give competitors an edge in a cut-throat business. And that's just for somple shelf displays advertising a new product. I would assume that an artist assigned to a project of this nature and financial scope would be explicitly instructed not to share content from the film.
The potential downsides could cause delays, rewrites, budgets over runs as they retool to ensure what goes on the screen is a surprise, and a hell of a lot of second-guessing. And we know that because it happened when information leaked while ATC was being put together. All of that had a definite impact on the final product, and I'm sure no one here wants the same for Firehouse.
That concept artist could have at least password-protected his portfolio. That still wouldn't ameliorate the fact that he should never have posted that content online (
especially with file names that reveal so much). I really don't mean to be a jerk here or pile on the guy, because I'm sure he's not having a good time right now... but the whole thing was pretty careless.
And I say all of that as someone that clamored to see the renderings, asked a member here to share, and wound up finding the images through
one simple trick anyway. I understand the draw. Problem is once this stuff is out in the world, it's hard if not impossible to pull it back and prevent it from falling in the wrong hands. And that could really hurt something a hell of a lot of people care about.