"Lost" smoke monster: someone else's idea?
oO0oh.. controversial!
Question: is it at all possible that the 'Lost' smoke monster is "inspired" by the Yuyu cloud?
Answer: no.
A pretty common question I get is whether or not my Yuyu cloud design was inspired by (or ripped off) the monster from Lost. The answer is no but the fact is.. the two are identical.
I've always put it down to a bizarre coincidence. Here are the two for you to see together. Thanks to whoever owns the YouTube submission:
'Lost' episodes compilation featuring smoke monster.
'The Yuyu'.
I've always felt terrible that I need to defend myself, so today I did a little research on the dates. Here's what I found:
OK so earlier today I was so certain that I had created the Yuyu cloud a whole MONTH before season1, ep24 went to air, that this blog article looked completely different. However, thanks to someone with better eyes than me (coughRATIOcough) , it turns out the difference in date is about 11 months... and it's not in my favour.
The smoke monster from Lost was aired 11 months before the Yuyu was released.. therefore all you've got is my word I guess. I've still never seen an episode of Lost and I did spend days coming up with the design.
After I'd released 'the Yuyu', my workmate Bernard Derriman told me that in Lost, there was a monster identical to the Yuyu cloud. I was devastated at the time, but never thought it could be so similar. It wasn't until today that I actually went to YouTube and sought it out.
A brief look at the dates and I was so elated to be a whole month ahead of Lost, that I posted a triumphant article here and put the story on Digg.com (could Lost be inspired by the Yuyu??).
Sorry to anyone who dugg the story.. I buried it as inaccurate.
*shuts up - goes back to work on Waterlollies*
Question: is it at all possible that the 'Lost' smoke monster is "inspired" by the Yuyu cloud?
Answer: no.
A pretty common question I get is whether or not my Yuyu cloud design was inspired by (or ripped off) the monster from Lost. The answer is no but the fact is.. the two are identical.
I've always put it down to a bizarre coincidence. Here are the two for you to see together. Thanks to whoever owns the YouTube submission:
'Lost' episodes compilation featuring smoke monster.
'The Yuyu'.
I've always felt terrible that I need to defend myself, so today I did a little research on the dates. Here's what I found:
- 'The Yuyu'. Created almost entirely during the months of March, April 2006 using Flash 8 on my computer. Movie released on my website May 1st, 2006. Released on Newgrounds.com on May 3rd, 2006 (source)
- Smoke monster first appears in 'Lost', series 1, episode 24 (Exodus 2).. aired in the US on May 25, 2005 (source)
OK so earlier today I was so certain that I had created the Yuyu cloud a whole MONTH before season1, ep24 went to air, that this blog article looked completely different. However, thanks to someone with better eyes than me (coughRATIOcough) , it turns out the difference in date is about 11 months... and it's not in my favour.
The smoke monster from Lost was aired 11 months before the Yuyu was released.. therefore all you've got is my word I guess. I've still never seen an episode of Lost and I did spend days coming up with the design.
After I'd released 'the Yuyu', my workmate Bernard Derriman told me that in Lost, there was a monster identical to the Yuyu cloud. I was devastated at the time, but never thought it could be so similar. It wasn't until today that I actually went to YouTube and sought it out.
A brief look at the dates and I was so elated to be a whole month ahead of Lost, that I posted a triumphant article here and put the story on Digg.com (could Lost be inspired by the Yuyu??).
Uh, no Phillips. The answer is no.
Sorry to anyone who dugg the story.. I buried it as inaccurate.
*shuts up - goes back to work on Waterlollies*
13 Comments:
Um, Adam...
Yu-yu was 2006....
Sorry.
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I'm such a dick =D
Just want to tell you that the idea is out there in the 1980's movie "abyss". Instead of black cloud you have water. Lost may have received that idea from that movie???
It's like that car I me and nodron once designed for our silly "bean" movie.
3 years later I see the Mr Bean cartoon on TV with the EXACT same design.
Inspired? offcourse not, it just seems the first car design that pops into someone's head when you mention "bean".
Did you know the syndrome of austism was discovered by two scientists, in 1943? Only one was in allied America while the other was in Nazi Germany. And they both used the word "autism" to describe the syndrom. No contact whatsoever, and yet they both discover some rare anomaly at the same time, while bieng miles appart.
According to wikipedia, the term autism was first coined in 1911 as a mental disorder but never properly classified. Both doctors during WWII did make similar classifications and used the term, but since the term had been published 30 years prior the coincidence isn't as striking (not as though they both invented the term).
You're right, with discovered I kind of meant first-mayor-published-article.
I just got that out of an article I read tough. I'm no expert :)
I seem to remember that it's not entirely uncommon for totally new inventions to come about in two different places across the world at the same time!!
Just a bizarre coincidence.
It's kinda cool - as if all our creative energies are somehow connected...
No one doesn't believe you, that shape and form for the character has been used in several comics, videogames, movies. Don't worry about it :)
No one doesn't believe you, that shape and form for the character has been used in several comics, videogames, movies. Don't worry about it :)
Yeah but is "lost" smoke monster made of tiny shadow people?(Seriously is it?)
hope not :P
Well, I say it's not who did it first, it's who did it better, so you win ;)
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