I just watched someone literally end their career by fucking over a capstone group at my university.
I don't know how to say this any nicer; but if you try to rip models from online and pass it off as your work- I will have you know that we WILL find the original artist's work and match it.
Especially if you're trying to pass the art test for getting into a capstone game studio. Your. Work. Gets. Reviewed.
If OUR GAME gets PULLED OFF STEAM because YOU USED STOLEN CONTENT, on the off chance that it wasn't caught when you were onboarded, we will make sure you never work in the rest of the industry. You don't get to screw over your hard working classmates and underclassmen THAT ARE TRYING TO GRADUATE because you're a greedy fucking shit.
This was a Master's student... A GAME DEV MASTER'S STUDENT.
Those of us in the Bachelor's below them, and in the Game Art BSc department (we don't have a Game Art Masters program) are both disgusted and genuinely offended. Makes the rest of us look fucking bad. If a master student is doing this, what the fuck is the industry gonna think of the rest of our group?
I have no words to describe how pissed off I am.
Deep breaths, deep breaths...
Literally fuck my blood pressure, my dude.