Call of Duty’s new floofy dog skin tainted by plagiarism accusation

polygon.com:

Activision’s latest update for Call of Duty: Warzone will bring the Terminator — both Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 and Robert Patrick’s T-1000 — to the battle royale-style shooter. Also coming to season 4 of Warzone is everyone’s favorite giant floofy dog breed, the Samoyed, thanks to a new skin for Call of Duty operator Kim Tae Young.

Scoring headshots as a Samoyed should be cause for celebration, but an artist says that the “Loyal Samoyed” skin for Call of Duty: Warzone was plagiarized, and based on a concept they created independently more than two years ago. Following that allegation, it appears that Call of Duty: Warzone developer Raven Software has removed images referencing the Loyal Samoyed cosmetic from its website. (The original version of Raven’s blog about Warzone season 4 included two images of the Samoyed. The current version has replaced those images.)

Concept artist Sail Lin uploaded artwork of their character, “Samoye Medical,” to the website ArtStation in December 2019. On Friday, the artist took to Twitter, saying that Activision and Raven Software plagiarized that piece of work without contacting them and without compensation.

I have to explain this matter, COD Vanguard Samoye skin plagiarism.https://t.co/ltHTSNhEtf <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/CallofDutyVanguard?src=hash&ref_src=» https: www.polygon.com>#CallofDutyVanguard

<a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/COD?src=hash&ref_src=» https: www.polygon.com>#COD <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vanguard?src=hash&ref_src=» https: www.polygon.com>#Vanguard <a href=«https://twitter.com/Activision?ref_src=» https: www.polygon.com>@Activision pic.twitter.com/OD2M4WNUms

“Even though I am also a COD player, I am very disappointed to see my work