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hmmm. I wonder what Red uses. I dunno, im not quite satisfied with any of my art programs. maybe I should do softies instead.

Maybe a buildables section where you can select bookends and a bunch of books.

Hey, I got a question for you because I went digging around through past ball guilds. I didn't see any that had pixel art shops thus as a result, I could not find anything that would clarify this either way.

Who retains ownership rights over pixel art created that is sold in the annual ball shop... the person who created it or the annual ball fundraising committee?

Sorry if it seems like I'm being a troublemaker by asking that... but there are several mini shops in existences that are still up and running that were created by one person who ran the shop then it was auctioned off to a new owner. Under these situations, the original creator never later starts up a new shop that sells the same kind of merchandise that was auctioned off.

Thus likewise if the annual ball fundraising committee retains full ownership over all pixels created, there's going to be that same appropriateness issue about creating and selling items of the same type in a shop in the future.

I mentioned shops being auctioned off because those are situations where one person has essentially built a shop, created all the pixel merchandize for it, created all the graphics for it, etc , but someone else owns the shop to the extent that they keep all 100% of the profits from the shop while the original creator gets nothing. What I am getting at is that there is some precedence for a scenario where one person is creating pixel art, but the Annual Ball Fundraising Committee keeps all 100% of the profit and owns the pixel art to the extent that the artist can never reuse any of it... [This is even more true if the fundraising committee wants to auction the shop off completely as it would mean that everyone would also need to turn over their bases to the auction winner.]


Okay I think I need to be up front about something... I've already sunk quite a bit of time into creating a logo [along with a few items] for a Mini Shop I'm making that is going to be a magic shop of the fantasy wizards and sorcerers variety. This means that there's going to be a slight overlap in the Annual Ball running a book shop and me wanting to make spellbooks for my own shop later. I'm really not okay with any scenario where I don't get to reuse whatever bases I create for books as there's really only so many ways that you can pixel draw what is essentially just a rectanguar object.

So in terms of diving up tasks for this shop, it might be a good idea to have me do art for the non-book things... or alternatively, if someone else does the base art for the books, I can do coloring and add titles plus can put them together with bookends as buildables.




The ownership remains entirely with the artist who makes it, even during the collective. It's just a special themed joint shop where all participating artists agree to split the profits evenly between all artists that submit something with no regards to how much profit each artist would actually make if they had gone solo.

Items are also grouped according to who made them, so all the blood food and drinks I'm going to submit will be clearly under a section that identifies me as their creator. I just cannot sell them in a shop while the Halloween Collective 2012 shop is running but once it shuts down, I can open up my own shop and resell them all I want... or if running a food shop [even a blood-based food shop] isn't my thing, I can sit on them for a year then resubmit them for the Halloween Collective 2013 shop.

For example -- Vintage Ink did little giftbags [and sometimes with other things] with some of the collective shops from Spring 2010 onward that are being resold through her shop Royal Ink as past limiteds. They can be seen on page #2 of the past limiteds thread. Since she resold them through her own shop, they cannot be resubmitted to the collective.