Looking for old clip art collection PDF

[d20fool]

I suppouse this thread should be combined with MSD's. Back in the early days of RPGnow.com there was a clip art collection with thumbnailsof common items, like sheilds, helmets, potion bottles, etc. I've bought a lot of PDFs (too many!) but I didn't but that one. Now it seems to be gone, the webmaster is NO help at all, and I don't know it's name or publisher. Does anyone know which product I'm talking about? If so, could you give me some info about it? Better yet, is there anyone who actually purchased it?

Thank you,

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

If we're talking about the same product, I believe it was called Publisher's Assistant Clip Art, or a very similar name, and it was listed under Politically Incorrect Games (PIG). I had it in my Wish List for the longest time, and when I decided to go buy it, I found it had been taken off RPGNow.com by the publisher.

I emailed PIG about the product asking why it wasn't on RPGNow.com anymore, and their reply was that they had removed it because it wasn't leaving much profit ("even for a PDF product", was their comment). Personally I cannot understand how that can be, since the product is already done (granted, I don't know about RPGNow.com's fees to the publishers, if any), but the fact remains that that is why they removed it.

A pity, though. I thought it was very useful, what with all those generic items and such that anyone can use again and again. I wish they would put it back up.

 

[The Sigil]

If we're talking about the same product, I believe it was called Publisher's Assistant Clip Art, or a very similar name, and it was listed under Politically Incorrect Games (PIG). I had it in my Wish List for the longest time, and when I decided to go buy it, I found it had been taken off RPGNow.com by the publisher.

I emailed PIG about the product asking why it wasn't on RPGNow.com anymore, and their reply was that they had removed it because it wasn't leaving much profit ("even for a PDF product", was their comment). Personally I cannot understand how that can be, since the product is already done (granted, I don't know about RPGNow.com's fees to the publishers, if any), but the fact remains that that is why they removed it.

A pity, though. I thought it was very useful, what with all those generic items and such that anyone can use again and again. I wish they would put it back up.

Just for closure, here's the link (now "not validated for sale") to the product... I bought it under the name "Stephen Cook Clip Art Collection."

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1987

--The Sigil

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

Yep, that's the one. Like I said, it sucks they pulled it from RPGNow.com. I would love to buy this. I think it was a great generic collection.

 

[Fester]

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1987

You can still grab the demo, though It has plenty of useful stuff in it.

[edit: it seems they've now removed the demo also. Glad I grabbed it when I did ]

 

[rpghost]

I don't know for sure, just a guess... but my guess is he's paying royalties to the artist on each sale. He's got to pay RPGnow 20-25% for each sale as well. After doing all the accounting and support work and paying everyone involved, maybe he felt it just wasn't worth his time.

James

 

[Kiln Publications]

So what everyone is saying is if someone put out a clip art collection of misc items and objects for let's say 75 for $5.00 royalty free you guys would buy it? What if all of the art of 80% was B/W line art??

 

[Fester]

So what everyone is saying is if someone put out a clip art collection of misc items and objects for let's say 75 for $5.00 royalty free you guys would buy it? What if all of the art of 80% was B/W line art??

Yep.

From my own point of view, there are two criteria.

1) The license must allow for businesses to use the art royalty free in their products - websites, pdfs, even published material.

2) 100% Black and white line art would be excatly what I'd want (color comes with overheads), but it must be of a good standard. This type of stuff is usually fluff - filler art that is pleasant on the eye and helps break up the text, so it plays an important role.

So clipart of weapons, armor, coins, jewellry, piles of loot, furniture (desk and chair, cot, etc), a hand holding a lamp, candle etc, ink and quill, scrolls, potion bottles, wands, clothes, bottles of wine, tankards of ale, barrells, crates, chests, doors, windows, rope, backpacks, adventuring equipment etc... etc... etc... would all be good stuff. I'd certainly pay $5 for this. If you produced a number of these, I'd be be happy to buy those too, if the images were of sufficient quality.

Why don't you post an example or two of what you had in mind and get some feedback? At least that way you'd know whether our expectations matched your own.

 

[Kiln Publications]

Yep.

From my own point of view, there are two criteria.

1) The license must allow for businesses to use the art royalty free in their products - websites, pdfs, even published material.


2) 100% Black and white line art would be excatly what I'd want (color comes with overheads), but it must be of a good standard. This type of stuff is usually fluff - filler art that is pleasant on the eye and helps break up the text, so it plays an important role



So clipart of weapons, armor, coins, jewellry, piles of loot, furniture (desk and chair, cot, etc), a hand holding a lamp, candle etc, ink and quill, scrolls, potion bottles, wands, clothes, bottles of wine, tankards of ale, barrells, crates, chests, doors, windows, rope, backpacks, adventuring equipment etc... etc... etc... would all be good stuff. I'd certainly pay $5 for this. If you produced a number of these, I'd be be happy to buy those too, if the images were of sufficient quality.

Why don't you post an example or two of what you had in mind and get some feedback? At least that way you'd know whether our expectations matched your own.

(1) EXACTLY that is what makes clip art clip art!!!
(2) Well it would definitely be black and white line art with some shading done by stipple (dots).
(3) I will probably within the next week, I am currently finishing up our first newsletter and putting out a free pdf this weekend.

 

[The Sigil]

(1) EXACTLY that is what makes clip art clip art!!!
(2) Well it would definitely be black and white line art with some shading done by stipple (dots).
(3) I will probably within the next week, I am currently finishing up our first newsletter and putting out a free pdf this weekend.

Well, color me as another publisher who will plunk down $5 a set for as many sets as you want to put out there.

I personally do prefer more "people doing stuff" images than just "coins, tankards," etc., but that's just me. I like people in my art.

--The Sigil