What Do Artists Get Paid?

[Cergorach]

Re: art

scarred lands... its just me but every time i read it i see "scared lands"

I take this to mean that you do not like their art? Why might i ask? I personally really like their art. It's all appropriate, all picture the story that the text was telling...

 

[jmucchiello]

Re: art

A good title gets me much more than good art.

I suppose I have no hope of him buying my PDF then. LOL Perhaps he'll have sympathy for a fellow Joe.

Joe Mucchiello
Throwing Dice Games
http://www.throwingdice.com

 

[jgbrowning]

scarred lands

i think the scarred lands has good art. What i was trying to say was that since i looke at titles more than the art, everytime i see a scarred lands book my brain parses it as "scared" lands. its really just a personal problem as i've never heard anyone else mention it.

FCTF i would be interested in buying, just from what the people on this board have said about it, but im just not very interested in superhero role-playing. its the way i feel about judge dread, looks solid, but im just not interrested.

as to your book of enchantment joe, i tend to not buy books that provide "new" stuff. I really like what the core books have and as a person who is mostly a DM, new material is more work for me in maintaining balance. thats why i dont use the various splat books put out. I buy some of them, read them all, but rarely use them. I prefer books about world building, which there are few of in 3E.

thanks for listening, and keep putting out good stuff!

joe b.

 

[jmucchiello]

Re: scarred lands

as to your book of enchantment joe, i tend to not buy books that provide "new" stuff.

I was joking, Joe. Thanks for explaining why you wouldn't buy that particular item though. Did I point out that it does have 10 pages of NPCs with backgrounds and plots and items of that nature as well as heavy crunch in the other pages?

I prefer books about world building, which there are few of in 3E.

Sort of working on it. So perhaps there hope.

Joe Mucchiello
Slowly and steadily seeking out gamers, one at a time.
Throwing Dice Games
http://www.throwingdice.com

 

[RangerWickett]

Well, for the sake of filling jgbrowning in, I'll explain the title of Nat20's supers book. Four-Color to Fantasy.

Old comics used a fairly poor-quality type of printing, using only four colors of ink - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. By mixing any two of those colors, you can get a nice, bright palette, which is why so many old comics have very bright, flat colors. You'll also see a lot of computer art programs let you work in a mode called CMYK, which is just a higher-quality version of the old four-color printing method.

The term four-color, in comics circles, has come to be associated with old-fashioned, pulpy comics from the 30s and 40s. These comics were fairly simple and very intense, probably most recognizable by Superman. So, that covers the Four-Color part of the title.

Fantasy, well . . . fantasy is, for one thing, alliterative with four-color. Second, by saying four-color to fantasy, we're implying the great breadth of the product. Our superpowers book can be used for any setting or genre, from urban, 20th-century superheroes, to mystical, medieval fantasy settings. We could've made it 'Four-color to Fantasy, Stone Age to Space Opera', but that would've gotten a little long.

Basically, though, the title is meant to get across that it is completely adaptable, and useful for any gamer. Sadly, it seems, not as many people know what Four-Color means as we had thought.

 

[jgbrowning]

well..

well i do now senor rangerwickett, and thanks for explaining it. always nice to know more than you did a second ago (though ive found i've started forgeting things in the same proportion)

joe, didn't know about the npcs, etc. have to reconsider

joe b.

 

[commando cody]

let's face it if you are trying to make a living doing game illustrations, you are going to be hungry most of the time...... most illustrators in the real world get a price range of 40 to 75 dollars an hour, depending on the job......so getting anywhere from 25 to 40 dollars for an illustration from a game company is more like something you want to do, and it isn't really going to support you as a full time job....... especially when you figure that a good illustration is going to take some time to design, pencil, and ink and possibly scan and get it ready for print, so you assume that getting paid something like forty bucks for an illustration taking up to five to ten hours of work, is something illustrators want to do ........ they aren't doing it to get rich, very few artists end up getting to make their entire living off of illustration, especially with everybody with a copy of photoshop or painter claims to be an artist nowdays........ just one of my two cents.........thanks
thomas floyd/illustrator
www.thomasfloyd.com

 

[uv23]

Basically, though, the title is meant to get across that it is completely adaptable, and useful for any gamer. Sadly, it seems, not as many people know what Four-Color means as we had thought.

No flame intended, but when you have to explain the title of a core product in such detail, its generally not a good thing. I had some assumptions about the title but always thought it was convoluted and inaccessible nonetheless.

Oh and for the guy who always reads "scared lands" when he sees "scarred lands", you are not alone.

 

[wheeljack]

Oh and for the guy who always reads "scared lands" when he sees "scarred lands", you are not alone.

I will third that statement.
And second the notion that a Title has something to do with getting my interest in a book.

*sound of train derailing*
Back to your regularly schedule program

 

[jgbrowning]

thanks

i'm not alone!

maybe we should start a support group.

"Do you feel embarresed everytime you enter the gaming store and the rest of the guys are oogling the avalanche covers and you look at it and see "Ragnarok! Tales of the Norse Gods" and think, "geeze the norse gods have been so overdone, these guys must never have played 2E?" only then to really see the cover and shudder with fear? Don't worry anymore, brother, we have a group of like-minded men who read words before looking at pictures!"

joe b.

ps. (honestly this time i'm done hijacking this thread, thanks fer listening)