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BYOAC - your one-stop shop for free artwork
Kier:
I wish I knew of this site when I built my monstrosity of a cabinet back in the sidewinder hack days. God awful. 1 day I will fix it all but have really moved more onto original games now for the most part.
But back to the point at hand. I am not sure what can really be done other than locking attachment downloads until a certain # of posts. Or dont post the final attachments and have people have PM to get them, although I am sure a lot of great artwork would get lost that way as peoples interest come and go on site.
I will say its nice when people acknowledge your work, and respect its rights. I am currently finishing a Crystal Castles redraw of the CP and I really dread putting it out there, as someone will take it and sell it on EBAY. Crazy isnt it. I am not looking to make money on it, but damn if I want some dumb arse to make money on it, lol.
pbj:
It's happened to me a few times, but it's always been stuff I did for myself and shared with others. I figure I'm better off for having the artwork and, hey, maybe they'll make a higher quality copy available cheap. It is funny how impossible it can be for some to say "thanks, dude!" or "I started selling these on e-bay and would like to give you one free."
Some day.... some day....
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on October 17, 2015, 03:47:06 pm ---Well said, Cheffo. All of it.
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Give me a few weeks -- I'll be a ruthless, obnoxious bastard again.
opt2not:
--- Quote from: JDFan on October 17, 2015, 11:33:00 am ---
--- Quote from: ChanceKJ on October 17, 2015, 05:53:50 am ---Why does this really matter Opt? You seem intent on jumping into this and fighting an internet battle here:
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Did you ever think it might matter to him more because he is trying to make some $$ selling original artwork ?? Figure everyone of those users that use existing work is one less paying customer for him and rather than lower his prices to compete, he'd rather not have the existing work available for free, so that his work could be charged more in line with his expectations of what it is worth and he wouldn't have to deal with so many "YOU WANT HOW MUCH FOR JUST SOME ARTWORK" -- the more art that is out there to download for free or next to it, the less he can charge before the customers complain about the cost - so understandable that it would be upsetting to someone that is trying to make some $ selling his work.
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That's not it at all. As of recently, I am no longer making artwork for BYOAC members.
I don't want to make a big stink about this, but I offered my services to help out the community, at the same time of making a little hobby spending cash. But the community isn't the same, and I don't feel like offering my art-skills to this new generation of members. Too much trouble, too much ignorance, too many ego's.
My main beef is the influx of new member who make accounts here to reap the free-art benefits without contributing anything back. That's the basis of it. The rest of the hate comes from the attitudes around how artwork and artists are regarded in general... which is an age-old battle that I don't think I can do anything about. Hence, I'm opting out of creating new artwork for the random members, and going to concentrate on doing artwork for my friends and I. I'm still going to finish up the ones I have on task right now. After that, it's me time.
yotsuya:
Well said.
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