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Eww... 1000+ entries? Yeah, kinda some rough voting in this latest contest.
These are the designs I've submitted for the second Friendship is Magic contest at welovefine.com. If you kept track, I did in fact get a runner up spot with the "Dumb Fabric" shirt last time (which has been a top seller for a while). Thanks to everyone that voted! But I guess I need your help again. It's hard to stand out in a sea of 1000 designs, but hopefully people will at least stop for 1 second and not automatically hit 1 while they're on a hot streak.
Want to help me out again? Here are links that go to the shirts themselves, just make sure to let the page fully load, or it may not work correctly:
https://www.welovefine.com/vote.php.....id_submit=1745 (Angel Bunny)
https://www.welovefine.com/vote.php.....id_submit=1663 (Rarity)
https://www.welovefine.com/vote.php.....id_submit=1441 (Twilight)
Thanks for all your support! And I sure do hope those links work!
These are the designs I've submitted for the second Friendship is Magic contest at welovefine.com. If you kept track, I did in fact get a runner up spot with the "Dumb Fabric" shirt last time (which has been a top seller for a while). Thanks to everyone that voted! But I guess I need your help again. It's hard to stand out in a sea of 1000 designs, but hopefully people will at least stop for 1 second and not automatically hit 1 while they're on a hot streak.
Want to help me out again? Here are links that go to the shirts themselves, just make sure to let the page fully load, or it may not work correctly:
https://www.welovefine.com/vote.php.....id_submit=1745 (Angel Bunny)
https://www.welovefine.com/vote.php.....id_submit=1663 (Rarity)
https://www.welovefine.com/vote.php.....id_submit=1441 (Twilight)
Thanks for all your support! And I sure do hope those links work!
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You're certainly not allowed to take (or draw) a picture of pikachu and slap it on an LOL IRONIC shirt. Nintendo would have your ass in lawsuits in minutes.
So explain to me how it's at all legal to sell these, on any site, at all.
I don't know where to begin on how messed up that is :/
and the original artist gets shafted? Huh
well THAT'S both incredibly weird, and shitty for the artist. I assumed this was more along the lines of threadless and sites like that where the artist gets a cut of the profits from the shirt, and was pretty pissed off that MOST of the shirts are little more than screenshot ponies with words photoshopped above or below them.
That really how this works? The crap they're selling on 'welovefine' that's pretty permanently a side banner on equestria daily. That site with 8 pages of lame pony shirts is all official merchandise?
Ugh
See, a while back i looked into making pokemon stuff. bookmarks, t-shirts, whatever. Becuase that's mostly what i draw, and i thought it'd be fun. But the idea was shot dead in the water because you can't just HAVE A CHARACTER on a shirt and be like
"Yo guys by this pikachu shirt i drew it" becuase it violates nintendo's copyright and is not protected under parody laws.
EVEN THOUGH you can go online and find TONS of pokemon apparel, most of them aren't sold under nintendo in any way shape or form. I know people personally who go to cons all the time and make like 100 pokemon pins, from pictures they doodled and copied and shoved into pins, and sell out of them. Pisses me off truthfully, because, while people DO IT, it's still illegal :\ and i'd hate to be the guy nintendo gets butthurt about and dragged to court, you know?
But at the same time, there are parody shirts people make all the time, and they're completely legal. I've just never really bothered because of how shot down i felt about the pokemon merch i wanted to make.
HAVING SAID ALL THAT, ponyshirts are cool guys. Some of them. Some really do just look like a chopped out screencap of rarity standing there in that 'i'm just standing here' pose they all do, and says like RARITY above it, with some shitty stars, and people are buying that.
and if that's the case, that the artists really are getting fucked like that, then why does ED support the site? Seems like a shitty way to repay your community :\
Regardless, i'd say look into another site. It's cool theyr'e extending the license to individuals who win contests (or buying the rights to the work from them, to be part OF the license), but in the end it still seems like a stupid thing for the artists to get involved with :\
So why are YOU doing it?
Plus I legitimately get to complain whenever someone brings up "the man."
(You can see my entry here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6740673 )
You're designs for this contest, like the ones you did for last one, are really nice (which is why the contest is now 20% cooler ;) ). I'm not disparaging my own work, but with your entries and others by heavy-hitting pony fanartists like IchyMango, the bar for this contest has been set pretty high.
http://www.pegasuspublishing.com/Le.....t-p-27049.html
THAT is too much text. But I still like it anyway. It's not always bad if people stop to ask to read your shirt. Unless you don't like them staring at your chest.
Unfortunately, I don't get the last one
XD yes