Haz-matt wrote:Didn't some one get an C&D letter about this same thing a bunch of years ago? I happen to know they did but I guess since you are already tied in with them you can get away with it. It was a pretty cool little animation at the time.
Can't say I've heard anything about that, although I suppose I could see that happening. Back when I studied animation in college, we’d use several famous characters from
Disney to
Looney Toons to study from, but when it came to working on our own “feature” projects we’d have to use our own characters. Even though animation is just a series of drawings, it still falls under the category of being a movie. My guess is although many would consider using published characters “fan art”, the characters are derivative works, and publishers might be concerned about people thinking that film, for better or worse, was official material, especially when it’s being shown to a larger audience. Not to mention infringing on copyright material.
CyCo wrote:Yeah they did, but I don't think they were taking the same path as Apollo is. From memory, they just did it for fun, and put it up on the net to share around. Which is where they became undone. What Apollo is doing is making an animated 'sampler' for Pall to have a look at, and hopefully giving him the go ahead to make something abit longer.
BINGO!
Rest assured, I’m going through all the proper channels for this and contracts and such will be signed. For what it’s worth, when it's done, this will be considered “official” material, with logos and all.
Some of you might be wondering then why I’m making such an appeal to the fans for a show of interest. The reason is, it’s a lot of work for both me and Kevin, just to draw up the paperwork, not to mention the months of work I’d be devoting to the project, and several stages of approval. That’s not even taking to account anyone that might come forward and offer to help with the project as well (who would also have to sign contracts). As I posted above, there’s not likely for any money to be had for something like this, and Palladium is a business, after all. Even though this is something I’d very much like to do, even as a “fan service,” both Kevin and I need to know that it would be worth the effort, so to speak. I guess in some ways this thread is a bit of a petition for us to do it. The reality is, it may turn out that working on something like this may be more trouble than it’s worth. In which case, a banner ad may be all I do.
Yup, all this for just a 1-3 min animated clip!
Let me put it another way... I may be helping to teach animation next fall, so I WILL be working on some kind of animation this summer, and I'd really like it to be based on Rifts. You guys can help make that happen! Course, I could just do a cartoon featuring the dragon from my website instead...
Hey, let me hear what you want!!
Apollo
www.apollookamura.com