Tuesday, January 27, 2015

DOOM GÖTTER

So,DOOM Götter   is live! 
Go to Imperfecz Toy Store to pick up your Bake Kujira and Filth Licker figures, each includes two building accessories. Pick your colors while you can (even add an ink wash for a buck)!

Also, check out the City Building packs at the Imperfecz toy store. You can create your own city for your Doom Götter  figures, or any other kaiju keshi you might have laying around. 

-R


Saturday, January 17, 2015

DOOM GÖTTER

So, the time is now, to unveil "the next thing", which is called "DOOM GÖTTER", from Ironhaus' own Jimmy Rommel and Luke Harris from Imperfecz Realm.

The concept is pretty simple: Let's take ghosts and myths, and turn them into city crushing kaiju... just big enough to capture their attitude, but small enough that you can... Well, this:

Each figure comes with two buildings, some regular and some battle damaged. What's the gate on these?
My Bake Kujira/Monster Ghost Whale figure, with two buildings: $10.
Luke's Monster Filth Licker, with two buildings: $12.
Look for these at the Imperfecz Toy Store, sometime this week, and be sure to check Luke's Blog for future updates on his stuff as well.


Saturday, January 10, 2015

If I may be serious for a minute...

So, I have noticed a disturbing trend in the whole Art Toy/Designer Toy/"whatever you want to call it" scene: Somebody does artwork (such as sculpting a figure, painting a figure, or doing art in support of a figure/line), and then somebody else, that had little or nothing to do with the creation of that piece,  takes credit for that work.

I have friends in the field, that have sculpted figures only to find that another party has taken credit for the work... Hell, it has even happened to me. One of my friends has almost an entire portfolio's worth of work that has had it's credits usurped by the person producing the toys. This is completely unacceptable. I have even heard of some of these producers making off-handed commentary about how "it's customary for the producer to get credit for the work", and that does ring true in the case of the larger companies like Hasbro and Mattel... But we're not talking about large corporations that compensate their artists for work... We're talking about individuals who are making money off of artists, with empty promises of "exposure" if they even bother to promise that.

Let me be blunt:
Exposure doesn't buy groceries. Exposure doesn't buy art supplies.
Exposure also doesn't mean jack shit, if the person producing the piece is taking credit for it.

This happens a lot, and often it's so innocuous as posting pictures from their social media, not crediting the artist, and when that piece gets complimented? "Thanks", as if they had spent the time and effort to design and sculpt the piece.

I'm going to close with this: Spend the extra two seconds to ask who produced a piece. If you know somebody else did the work, don't let some usurper deprive the artist of their due.

If you ARE one of these artists, speak up for yourself. I know the basic culture insists that you don't create "drama", but I assure you, calling out a thief isn't "dramatic" at all. If these artists would speak up, these underhanded tactics would stop. They NEED to stop, and you all deserve your due.

-Rommel