A Proposition
Feb. 22nd, 2007 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinMy next Big Purchase is making louder demands for attention, but it's also raising doubts. I really need to get a working copy of DigiCel, an animation line testing program, in order to get any further with my attempt to re-learn paper animation. I've got the 'student' copy, which was billed as fully operational but with a watermark – I didn't know until after downloading it that the watermark is actually a big block of opaque text that makes actually seeing the animation almost impossible. To get rid of it I need to purchase the 'key,' which runs at about $300 or so, last I checked. Normally this wouldn't be too big an impediment as I've been working steadily for more than a year, and after rent and groceries my expenses are practically nil, but I've got two (possibly three, if I find myself moving south of the border) other things poised to make a large dent in my bank account this year and an extra $300 seems more and more like something to avoid.
SO. Here's the thing. I'm going to do some sort of Animation Fundraiser ... but what? I was thinking of putting together a 'sketchbook' as numerous internet artists have done which I can then sell copies of at a fixed price. However, most of my artwork (and almost all my best artwork) is fan art; I don't know what the copyright regulations might be on that but the idea frightens me. I was also considering opening up for commissions, but my upcoming period of voluntary unemployment needs to be devoted to the production of a portfolio, and I'm already behind on gift art, so there's the guilt factor as well.
What's a poor girl to do?
SO. Here's the thing. I'm going to do some sort of Animation Fundraiser ... but what? I was thinking of putting together a 'sketchbook' as numerous internet artists have done which I can then sell copies of at a fixed price. However, most of my artwork (and almost all my best artwork) is fan art; I don't know what the copyright regulations might be on that but the idea frightens me. I was also considering opening up for commissions, but my upcoming period of voluntary unemployment needs to be devoted to the production of a portfolio, and I'm already behind on gift art, so there's the guilt factor as well.
What's a poor girl to do?
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Date: 2007-02-23 02:23 am (UTC)Totally Discworld stuff. And definitely some Coffee Pirates, as they are the only thing approaching originality, and some Herbert West stuff because hey! it's public domain.
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Date: 2007-02-23 02:32 am (UTC)(Heh, I feel bad for not ever commenting before.)
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Date: 2007-02-23 02:34 am (UTC)I'm glad you like 'em... he doesn't have half so many fans as the other things I usually draw.