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GIS Syndrome
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A common shortcut that creators use is to collect pictures from Google Image Search and use them as a background. These images are usually run through a filter (almost always some type of blur) on Photoshop, either to lessen focus or to make the image more congruent with the art style. This is often utilized for complex designs (book and video game covers are common examples), or done for intentional stylistic choices, but can be seen as a sign of laziness if the artist comes to depend on it. In some cases, the artist is lazy enough that he picks the first fitting image from the first results page, thus allowing bored fans to guess their search query and find the original images easily. Laziness and ignorance can also get authors in much more serious trouble — for some reason, people tend to think that anything found via GIS is fair game, when of course it's still all covered by copyright law. Note that GIS Syndrome isn't limited to Google Images as lazy creators also use Bing Image Search and DuckDuckGo Image search. No relation to Geographic Information Systems, which aren't used by artists nearly as much, unless artists want to create their own real-world modern-day maps. Not to be confused with a Photo Comic, which uses photographs as the art instead of an embellishment. See also Real-Place Background. Contrast Matte Shot, where real people stand in front of a painted background. Compare Traced Artwork, when a creator copies existing art by hand. For when this intentionally used as a stylistic choice, see Medium Blending. |
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The kaiju collectible card series, Pachimon, have half of them being made using this trope, by painting kaiju artwork on top of existing pictures, especially notable in the series' "World Tour" collection. One of those cards is simply a pair of monsters painted on Mount Rushmore, while another overlaps with Unusually Uninteresting Sight by pasting the painted image of a rampaging monster across a postcard depicting London, so Londoners are simply unfazed at the sight of a fifty-foot monster in the streets. | |
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MS Paint Adventures uses black-and-white (usually pixellated) photos for most background objects. It's used for comic effect since the photo detail contrasts so highly with the stickfigure-esque characters. Sometimes, mostly with landscape from Homestuck Act Four onward, pictures are recolored to match colors. In a few cases this ends up looking odd, to say the least. Also, there's a tendency for such images to be the underlay for additional background illustrations, for example the Land of Wind and Shade (which draws certain features like rivers and mushrooms on top of pictures of landscapes). And of course, much as you'd expect, Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff occasionally does this for Stylistic Suck purposes, often picking the most severely watermarked image possible. |
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8-Bit Theater: Early comics used a combination of original but very low-quality digital art and sprites, but it eventually transitioned to using image-search backgrounds in almost every comic. | |
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The Free Comic Book Day issue of Scott Pilgrim contains a lampshaded example of this. | |
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Legend of Legendary Mighty Knight uses this as part of an Art Shift for one panel- the soup the knight feeds to the dragon tastes so good the next panel shows the dragon's shocked expression superimposed over a GIF of rapidly changing photographs of galaxies. | |
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Evangelion 303: Grummancat is perfectly capable of drawing backgrounds, so this mostly crops up for large-scale backgrounds like the desert and city scenes. | |
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Everyday Heroes does this occasionally. The last panel of this comic is one example. | |
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The original release of RE: Alistair had real photographs for backgrounds; subsequent releases had them replaced by drawn images. Many low-budget or freeware Visual Novels use stock backgrounds, actually, probably because actually drawing one would take time and resources the artists don't have. |
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Sometimes, mostly with landscape from Homestuck Act Four onward, pictures are recolored to match colors. In a few cases this ends up looking odd, to say the least. Also, there's a tendency for such images to be the underlay for additional background illustrations, for example the Land of Wind and Shade (which draws certain features like rivers and mushrooms on top of pictures of landscapes). | |
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Irregular Webcomic!, a LEGO comic, uses (copyright-free or self-taken) photo backgrounds when LEGO isn't enough. | |
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Apparently, the art of Civilization V had been redesigned shortly before release, forcing the developers to rely on this technique for their button graphics, which drew some ridicule from the community. | |
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PAYDAY 2 has one heist taking place inside an FBI headquarters. The medical room has cabinets that act as health kits for the player to heal with. Inside the cabinets are common medicines for colds, stomachaches, and so on. The textures for said medicines are directly ripped from the Kirkland Signature brand without any alterations on the textures. | |
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The "creators" of Limbo of the Lost have apparently used Google Image Search themselves to take various images for use as inventory items. | |
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Androx Demon of Fire, a hilariously terrible (and now cancelled) RPG mocked by Retsupurae in this Kickstarter video series, used a hilariously out of place volcano background from Google Images in part of the lava area. It doesn't work with the top down graphics style in the slightest. | |
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Happens during an event in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver where you have to take Arceus—basically the verse's equivalent to God—to a certain room and he proceeds to recreate the universe from scratch to give you an egg containing one of the cover legendaries for the other Gen IV games. This process is illustrated starting with stock images of space and stars and how the Earth may have looked, up to single-celled organisms and finally civilizations by showing overhead satellite shots or skylines of big cities. As one YouTube commenter put it: "Arceus used Google Image Search!" Likely the cause of a fan-made map of the world from serebii.net ending up on the wall of a house in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. Hilariously, the devs tried to disguise the fact by flipping the pic horizontally. |
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In Mass Effect 3, there were two cases of taking images and modifying them, one being the post-ending epilogue image, and the other being the photograph of Tali's face. | |
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FTL: Faster Than Light uses some NASA photographies for backgrounds. They are properly credited in the readme file. | |
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Asperchu does this for most outdoor scenes. Which still puts it ahead of its inspiration by actually having backgrounds. | |
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A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe uses this for everything but interface elements and the stick figure humans. Same goes for its sequel, Chairman Jack: Emerge. |
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And of course, much as you'd expect, Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff occasionally does this for Stylistic Suck purposes, often picking the most severely watermarked image possible. | |
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The King of Fighters: Kyo manga by Masato Natsumoto makes heavy use of this, even in scenes like Kyo and Iori coming across each other in the street. | |
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The image of Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 from The Angry Video Game Nerd is stitched from variety of sources, including but not limited to Picard's Borg implant, as well as the rocket launcher and the APC vehicle from Red Faction. | |
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CrazyBus features stock photos of buses for its backgrounds. They also look rather ugly, as they had to be compressed to be put on the Sega Genesis. | |
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Same goes for its sequel, Chairman Jack: Emerge. | |
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The latest episode of The Fan started using photos for occasional outdoor backgrounds. The pictures are taken by the author himself, of more or less the actual locations where the scene is supposed to take place. | |
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Candi did this for a while before going back to drawn backgrounds. | |
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Ctrl+Alt+Del, usually for various movie posters hanging on the walls. Game consoles also used to be this, most notably Ethan's Gamecube. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball uses photographs for almost all its backgrounds. The more recurring ones were taken by the crew especially for the show, but others are stock pictures taken from a couple different sources (including Shutter Stock). | |
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Not quite fitting the trope, since it's not an image, but after a Kazakh athlete won a gold medal at a sporting contest in the Middle East, the organizers played the Borat version of her country's national anthem rather than the real one. They blamed a too-cursory Internet search. Also in a similar vein, "Glory to Hong Kong", the song of the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests was played to introduce the Hong Kong team at the 2022 Rugby Sevens in South Korea instead of "March of the Volunteers", China's national anthem. They also blamed a too-cursory internet search. |
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The Weather: Everything from backgrounds, to objects, to characters, are just Google stock-images. The Wham City members are green-screened into the scene, either with their full-bodies or just their faces, and the callers take on immobile clip-art characters with moving faces. | |
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High Guardian Spice frequently uses stock images for assets, like a loaf of bread or a lamppost. | |
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Waterworks uses this occasionally, mainly for inventory items, as well as the backgrounds in a particular character's flashback. | |
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Kang Fu mostly uses compressed stock images for level backgrounds or background objects. | |
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The banner ads for Evony (and others that have followed its example) oft included scantily clad women who never appear in game, chiefly because many of those images were lifted from various other sources, from uncredited artists to copyrighted material. | |
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Ōkami had an infamous example where the cover of the Wii version was pulled from a search engine. If you look carefully at the cover, you will see an IGN watermark. This was, of all things, because they had lost the original image file. | |
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Early episodes of South Park used a lot of stock photos as background elements. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Girls uses this as well with the in-universe justification that Monika, whose ability to reprogram the game world is somewhat limited when it comes to physically creating new places and objects, does often resort to using search engines as a shortcut. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "isp", an Easter egg shows Homestar's weight in sign-up CDs in a generic empty room. On the FeedBurner page, the entry about donating to the Homestar Runner Wiki is accompanied by an edited image of a telethon. |
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Powerup Comics spoofed this in one strip, where the background had a giant iStockphoto watermark. | |
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Lampshaded on Third Rate Gamer, where an image of a castle is labeled "Castle of Google Images". | |
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Zero Punctuation consists of exactly four visual elements: A stubborn refusal to ever change the yellow background, white figures with Floating Limbs, imps, and pictures he took off Google images. One in particular that keeps cropping up is the Thomas Ruff portrait that, according to Word of God, he found by searching for "expressionless man". | |
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Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: For no reason in particular, the top of the Tower of Sin uses Earth's moon as the background despite being in another world. | |
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Used pervasively in Psycholonials. All the backgrounds in the game are real photographs, with heavy pixelation and color filters applied, and only the characters actually drawn. One scene featuring a character traveling outside even uses a Google Maps satellite street map from a real place as the backdrop. | |
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Googlebrains explicitly and proudly uses stock images of quite a few of his characters. | |
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