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| Posted By: Anaphiel | Date: 9/16/04 7:52 a.m. |
| In Response To: Re: just now getting around to posting this (Yossarian) : Oh man those are six kinds of sweet. Do you plan on making any available for
: I would love to see the Rubicon end screen in such a setup.... I'd like to see that Rubicon end screen as a poster myself. Thanks everyone for all of the comments. It was pretty cool to see the posters actually in print like that, and very cool for Claude to spring to have them framed. They look very, well, professional that way. That's one of the things I like about working in print: seeing something go from your computer screen to a finished physical product that usually looks a million times better than you would have thought. I can see a few problems with selling posters though. First is the copyright issue. Assuming I left out the Craig Mullins pieces and just stuck to my own original work, I still don't own the rights to the characters, images, logos, settings etc. Bungie/MS do. They might be cool about granting me limited permission to do some posters (they've always been generous in the past with regards to T-Shirts etc., and in the case of something like Red vs. Blue they're EXTRAORDINARILY generous, or at least smart enough to see it as free marketing for their property), but I would have to get explicit permission to do any Marathon-related stuff for sale. Second is the price: big posters aren't cheap. My shop charges $9.00US per square foot, meaning that a 2'x3' poster like the ones in the picture would cost $54US. Even a smaller (18"x24") poster would be $27. And that's un-mounted, un-framed, just ink on paper. I can do 11"x17" prints for less than a dollar, but the quality isn't the same. Also, that price assumes I don't mark it up and make a little profit on the side ;-) Third is the hassle whenever money gets involved. I don't know how people would pay me. I don't know that everyone who ordered a poster WOULD pay me. I'd probably have to set up some kind of pre-pay system, have to accommodate people with no credit cards, people from outside the US, etc., and I don't know how to do all of that even if I wanted all of the work. Not to say I wouldn't be open to it at some point, but right now I think it's more likely I'd do a poster for sale at various sizes to commemorate some special occasion (assuming I could get permission) rather than offering posters of all of my stuff for sale. BTW, has anyone here bought the Trocadero CD from the Red vs Blue site? Trocadero is Nico's (grasshopper on this board) band, and he does the music for RvB. The CD was designed by Heather deCristofaro (one of the mods at the RvB forums) and myself, and it looks only slightly better than it sounds ;-) /shameless plug | |
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