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Post by thesweetlander on Jun 19, 2010 19:45:31 GMT -9
Hey guys, So I found this amazing community of papercraft fanatics a few weeks back and after cutting and gluing a few dozen minis I decided I really would like to contribute to the madness. Since I am not an artist I will have to wait to actually draw my own minis up. Until then I thought it would be cool to take pictures of some of my metal/plastic minis to trace and recolor them. My first question is, is that even ok? I guess i dont know how the whole copyright thing goes. My second question is, when I finish them how do I size them to the correct 30mm scale. I'm using Inkscape to trace and Gimp to color and texture if thet helps. Im sure this is a total noob question but thats exactly what I am so there...
Anyway thanks for putting out such amazing minis and any help will be greatly appreciated.
TheSweetlander
P.S. I will post some pictures once I find out if it is legal or not.
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Post by Dagger on Jun 19, 2010 23:42:47 GMT -9
As long as you're doing it for your own personal use and not trying to sell any of it for a profit... I wouldn't worry. Anything short of that is just free advertisement for their miniatures...(grin)
I'm sure there's a smarter way to get the size right... but what about standing a ruler next to the miniature when you take the picture, and then adjusting the size in Inkscape until that ruler matches Inkscape's ruler... or maybe something like the height background in a mugshot..
I'm not too familiar with Inkscape, but in DrawPlus I can just adjust the size according to the built in ruler and that's the size it prints out at...
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Post by thesweetlander on Jun 19, 2010 23:46:50 GMT -9
I actually just realized that inkscape and gimp both have that as well haha... i should have payed closer attention. well now that I know I can post the minis here I hope to have a few done in the near future.
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Post by curufea on Jun 23, 2010 17:18:55 GMT -9
If you are photographing miniatures that you have painted, copyright is in your favour. The miniature company has rights to the original model - not to any painting you have done to it.
There may be something about a derivative work or new manifestation of a work - but I seriously doubt any miniature company would make a fuss about it, they'd have the entire painting hobby up in arms if a painter didn't have rights to their own works.
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