Letterworks opened this issue on May 18, 2005 ยท 31 posts
hauksdottir posted Fri, 20 May 2005 at 12:23 AM
John, That isn't quite true. You can mention your own products in the image credits... but if it is a promotional image and you say "coming soon!" and you are describing all the intimate features of the product, then it is clearly an ad. Most of the merchants and their testers and partners will only mention the product at hand, not the freebie background and props, not any other products, just their own. They don't want to distract the customer from focussing upon the ad. "I just had to do another render with Bigboobica. She has a hand-painted texture and 53 shades of lipstick. Coming soon to the Marketplace!" or "I was inspired to create Bigboobica [] by the fantasy visions of Wrich Writer. Here she is as the Earl's Herald desperately battling legions of Xynchxi on the ice planet of Yth. Background by [], snow by [], jewelry by [], sword by [], royal standard by [], the skeletal Xynchxi are by [] with my own textures, and rendered with []'s wonderful free lights." The first is not only an ad, it is a turn-off... especially if the merchant and her buddies have ALL been plastering the gallery for a week with this character. Do we really need to see all 53 shades of lipstick? In the second one, we get more information, maybe an image which is "art" because it engages the viewer emotionally or intellectually, the merchant gets credit for his own hard work and everybody else gets credit, too. If the viewer likes Bigboobica, he knows exactly where to buy her, but he isn't hit between the eyes with the flashing neon arrow. Carolly