[PR] Elmore Productions

[Morrus]

The Elmore Character Clip Art & Color Customizing Studio

For years many people have enjoyed coloring Larry Elmore's artwork; gamers
often dream of having Elmore draw their favorite fantasy character; and
small game companies wished that they could afford Elmore artwork for their
next game supplement - with this new product, Elmore Productions, Inc. is
about to make all those thousands of people very happy. The Elmore Character
Clip Art and Color Customizing StudioT is both D20 OGL and Clip Art for all
to use -as long as they give Larry Elmore proper credit on their web site,
in their game product, or if they decide to just use it for their own
personal use.

This Box set contains a 96 page perfect bound book containing 200+ original
black & white line art drawings, and one CD-ROM. To download a 4meg PDF of
all the illustrations that appear in the Clip Art book chick
htt://www.larryelmore.com/Doenloadfiles/ELM-8400.pdf

6 great reasons why you must purchase this product:
. 200+ original black & white line art drawings by Larry Elmore.
. Character profiles include; Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Gomes, Halflings,
Half-orcs, and Half-elves.
. Comes with a 96 page book allows everyone to start coloring immediately.
. All pictures are backed up on a CD as 266 dpi Tiff files.
. Color, clip, and print your favorite character portrait directly to your
character sheet.
. The CD is formatted for Macintosh and PC.


ON SALE AUGUST 8, 2002

For more information drop by our website at
htt://www.larryelmore.com/PROMO.ELM-8400.html

Elmore Productions, Inc. . 1314 Sunbeam Rd. . Leitchfield, KY 42754 .
www.larryelmore.com


____________________________


Thanx,
Ken Whitman
Business Manager
Elmore Productions, Inc.

Ph: 262-745-4774
kenwhitman@hotmail.com

www.larryelmore.com

 

[Cergorach]

Now this is a very kewl idea! I hope it works out for Mr. Elmore and that many more will follow...

But one small detail, both on the site as in the email the link to the 4MB preview doesn't work...

[edit]
Ack! So it does work, just no with Mozilla Build 2002072104...

btw. strangeway to spell download ;-)
[edit]

 

[Napftor]

I just tried it at Elmore's site and it worked. Better try again, Cergorach!

 

[Conaill]

Unfortunately, all of us playing low-charisma PC's are out of luck. Heck, even his orcs are pretty good looking!

 

[Conaill]

Interesting idea, but I do have to wonder how successful this will be for him from a financial point of view. I mean, the free pdf already covers all the drawings in the book, and is OGL/Clip Art itself.

Sure, if you plunk down your $20, you get a nice hardcopy book, plus high-res versions of the portraits on a CD. But what will be the ratio of people that will use the free pdf, versus those that pay money for the high-res version?

Either way, I guess he'll get his name on half of the charactersheets in the country. And it'll buy him a lot of goodwill from gamers everywhere.

Muchas gracias, senor Elmore!

 

[XCorvis]

That's pretty sweet - too bad most of the OGC stuff is just head shots for character portraits.

He's got line drawings of some of his classic stuff in there too, for personal use. Fun to color, if nothing else.

 

[Mark]

Looks pretty cool, indeed!

Xcor - Drop me an Email, please.

 

[Klaus]

I just hope this doesn't bode ill to illustrators. Many smaller publishers might be inclined to use artwork by a big name like Elmore instead of hiring an artist to do exclusive material, which might close many doors to aspiring artists.

 

[hellbender]

I just hope this doesn't bode ill to illustrators. Many smaller publishers might be inclined to use artwork by a big name like Elmore instead of hiring an artist to do exclusive material, which might close many doors to aspiring artists.

I have seen this concern crop up on a list for industry illustrators. But if you think about it, if everyone used Elmore's art in their product, the wide variety of art would be gone, thus rendering d20 products rather bland. There is too great of a range of great artists out there to threaten many with this product. Some companies, like Mongoose, have a great range of art in a variety of styles that make their products interesting to look at as well. Check out the Fey Magic book, nice range there. Elmore is a great artist and I admire much of his work, but he isn't going to threaten the art market.

hellbender

 

[2WS-Steve]

Personally I wouldn't want the art in my printed product to be same as the art in a slew of other printed products. Also, the 266 dpi is just as bit low for a book.

It'd be pretty useful for fan materials and perhaps pdf products though; I'm not sure how much of the art in pdf products gets well paid anyway.