Fan Art Image Theft

You may recognize this image as one of the winners of the recent one year anniversary contest held for European Warcraft players. However, have you seen this image, art for the Korean MMO Shaiya? They do look awfully similar, and the markings on our supposed Night Elf's face do look rather poorly done, on second glance. The original artist's homepage contains more work for Shaiya, including a note saying that the series of six images took two months to complete. Ouch - all this for a video card?

This was originally reported to and acknowledged by Blizzard in this thread, which won't do you much good unless you speak German.