Actually, the thrust of the entire idea is the movie is the culmination of 3000 years of different types of art, and also that there's relatively less great art than in ages past. So he's somewhat good and good relatively.Originally Posted by Beamo
Actually, the thrust of the entire idea is the movie is the culmination of 3000 years of different types of art, and also that there's relatively less great art than in ages past. So he's somewhat good and good relatively.
Fair enough, another instance of a statement not translating well in type.
As a whole, yes an unpainted miniature is more than a canvas, but when you isolate the artists and their contributions, it's the blank slate they paint on, just the same as the blob of putty was to the sculptor, or the wall to an artist doing a mural. Assuming one only paints minis, no, they would not be able to do it without the sculptors effort, nor the brushes, but no one's taken up the defense of the arts of kolonok harvesting and brushmaking, in this thread yet.
As to compensation, a sculptor sometimes has the benefit of being constantly compensated for the sales success of their reproductions; I cannot ever mold and mass-produce my paint jobs, each one takes the time it takes, and is potentially unique even in the case of when I paint two identical models (the same sculpt reproduced). It's quite often an apples and oranges result. If a sculptor doesn't get what they feel the work was worth, it's not on me to feel guilty about what I get paid to paint it, though.
I see what you mean. I just don't think it's as simple as choosing him as the greatest of his particular medium, and then choosing him as better in his medium than the greatest artists of other mediums are at theirs.
you might call him the "most influential", if you felt that way, for example. That's something quantifiable. But art is subjective, and what's the bestest ever to one person could be trash to another, in spite of the art's influence on viewers.
As far as GW goes I believe the sculptors are paid a flat salary and do not get a commission of sales, but I could be wrong.
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My final product is the product of my talent and time. To fairly price my final product time is a better measure because it is measurable. I use it as a guide and more often than not I spend more time than I quoted/priced, and I don't back charge.
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I certainly hope they're not strictly commission based. The rules play too much into the sales, and the sculptors have no control over the rules. Just look at the Pyrovore; great model, **** rules, so no one ever bought one.
Give a man fire, and you keep him warm for a night.
Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Then you'd have the sculptors bribing the developers to give their models the best rules...
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As far as I know, this is correct, but that's just GW. We know how they roll.
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Reaper hires Freelance. The work is bought outright and they pay well for each miniature.
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If I tell you, "You're wrong," you'll need to click this.
Does anybody else find it odd, by the way, that the information age has led to language becoming an oblique and imprecise tool where even the most straightforward phrasing is pored over with chicken entrails and bone tossing to divine the true meaning?
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