blackroseivy
March 9th, 2008, 11:22 AM
HEHE!! I am about to submit to US Games - that is, upon my return from Switzerland wherein I should be able to tell them something quite SOLID about my reputation thereupon!!!
I have a really neat-o submission package in the works.
My main story about THEM is THIS:
Paula, who is art director, wrote me back with a VERY UNUSUAL REQUEST INDEED! You see, I had been in touch with her before & I know that she saw that I am professional, & at any rate DO know what I am doing. She invited me to send in quite the BUNCH of images - their ordinary submission specs state very clearly, *4* images & no more! She wants QUITE a FEW!! :T
(I will be sending them as a snail package, all nicely bound & professional looking, along with text to go with.)
The other thing was this:
I had gone to them something like 3 years ago wondering how much it would be to have them just print up the cards (the do that for MUCHO $$$!!). I got back an e-mail from STUART KAPLAN HIMSELF (chairman & founder of LONG standing!!), asking me about the concept! I was at the time, however, asking questions having to do with copyright & fair use. + the fact that I had them done on the computer as cyber-images at all of 72 dpi - :( - & I was most of the way through the deck BEFORE finding out that that is NOT publishable!! - & the upshot of THAT was, I didn't hear from him again.
BUT:
Since then, I have had universal word that anything I do as a DRAWING is "fair use", from all the publishers I contacted & from my lawyer sister, as well! So, NO problems with THAT at all. & the images are coming out FABULOUS, much more cohesive, as pencil drawings, which funnily enough was the way I wanted to go in the 1st place. Only thing about it is, now I have to work from my own rather crude line-drawings rather than the photos themselves - & as things turned out, I might as well have just proceeded with the photos in the original images instead, & saved myself some work!! :smileroll Ah well, I'm managing...
Hope that folks are interested!! :D
I have a really neat-o submission package in the works.
My main story about THEM is THIS:
Paula, who is art director, wrote me back with a VERY UNUSUAL REQUEST INDEED! You see, I had been in touch with her before & I know that she saw that I am professional, & at any rate DO know what I am doing. She invited me to send in quite the BUNCH of images - their ordinary submission specs state very clearly, *4* images & no more! She wants QUITE a FEW!! :T
(I will be sending them as a snail package, all nicely bound & professional looking, along with text to go with.)
The other thing was this:
I had gone to them something like 3 years ago wondering how much it would be to have them just print up the cards (the do that for MUCHO $$$!!). I got back an e-mail from STUART KAPLAN HIMSELF (chairman & founder of LONG standing!!), asking me about the concept! I was at the time, however, asking questions having to do with copyright & fair use. + the fact that I had them done on the computer as cyber-images at all of 72 dpi - :( - & I was most of the way through the deck BEFORE finding out that that is NOT publishable!! - & the upshot of THAT was, I didn't hear from him again.
BUT:
Since then, I have had universal word that anything I do as a DRAWING is "fair use", from all the publishers I contacted & from my lawyer sister, as well! So, NO problems with THAT at all. & the images are coming out FABULOUS, much more cohesive, as pencil drawings, which funnily enough was the way I wanted to go in the 1st place. Only thing about it is, now I have to work from my own rather crude line-drawings rather than the photos themselves - & as things turned out, I might as well have just proceeded with the photos in the original images instead, & saved myself some work!! :smileroll Ah well, I'm managing...
Hope that folks are interested!! :D
