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Subject: Product credits

svdl opened this issue on Nov 14, 2004 ยท 5 posts


Doodles posted Fri, 19 November 2004 at 11:45 AM

Look at yourself in the mirror. Are you labelled? i.e. product of Bob and Jill Smith (who are your parents). Are your clothes labelled on the outside where everyone can see.....i.e. trousers made by Kmart, breasts my Doctor Kaner? I view my art in pretty much te same way. My art may be the final product of a compliation of many products from many artist...but I've made it my own and I don't think I should have to put product labels on it.

If I look at a picture with a long list of product credits I get distracted and end up trying to figure how which prop is which and how it was used and textured and I lose sight of the wonderfulness of the image.

I'm sure most merchents appreciate the product credits because it's good advertising for them and that's fine. I'm not trying to take anything away from anyone. I don't think there is anything wrong with posting product credits if you chose to do it. I'm not a merchent, I'm not trying to sell a product. I'm a wannabe artist trying to sell and develope my skill. This is just my personal opinion on product credits. But if I chose not to, I hope people will understand why.