a alita figure<made/>

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:24 am

ive stared working on my own alita figure, it's a non possable one that ive made a ruff form of now im putting all the peices to gether and clean up but i still need to do the head if any one hase any good alita head pics put some up and maby ill use one of the faces from a pic.

by tomaro i'll have a few production pic's up..

Post by **crazyankan** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:44 am

Can´t wait for the pics

What material do you use for making it?

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:26 pm

im useing sculpy to make the original but then ill cast it in resin or even stonex depend's on if anyone want's to buy one but when i get out of work today i'll take some pics and post them

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:49 pm

i posted a pic of the leg that nearly finished it's under gunnm image borde but the image borde wont let me post any more

and im an idiot that dont know how to post pic's on this forum

im such a computer dunce!

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:51 pm

never mind i dont see the pic up the image board is not working then it keep's timeing out so i give up ...

spacey · Post by **spacey** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:39 pm

I can see the leg

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:45 am

while the wait hear is some of my art work of vilma!!

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vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:46 am

sorry that they are so big lol

my bad guy's

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:12 pm

the pic of the torso it's a crapy pic sorry but what do you think??

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Post by **crazyankan** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:38 am

The lines of the body looks really good.
And make the surface smoother if you can.

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:07 pm

im giong to sand and buff it once i have all the other peices made so that it all line's up it's a real pain in the ass lol but i still dont know how i should do the face any sugestions?

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:40 pm

almost finished my alitas comeing out great

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vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:41 pm

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denzacar · Post by **denzacar** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:47 am

Coming along nicely.

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:14 pm

once finished ill make about 3 resisn alita's and paint them and sell them for about 70$<us> each cause a lot of work is put into them if any one is interestd let me now now and maby ill keep it aside before diong ebay

Vega2503 · Post by **Vega2503** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:35 am

You can't legally do that, since you don't own the rights to Gally or Gunnm...so don't, unless you want Kishiro to come knocking on your door with a lawsuit and/or a gun...

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:00 pm

if thats so then why did i see a fan made one on sale for 100$ on ebay, the link to it is on this site in a forum under <ebay treasure> so i dont think that it's a problem im not clameing it as my owne, as long as a fan fic ,item ,art is disclaimed it is not agianst the law and im asking for cash because of the time i put into it, it would be illegal if i made a large line, but then again dollor store's and other small buisness do it all the time, the saying is <all patent's come to an end>
i know my right's have an uncle in the law branch,.

denzacar · Post by **denzacar** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:11 pm

First... IANAL...

Legally - yes. It is wrong.
Then again, I doubt Kishiro or someone else would come down on his fan and waste his good reputation over something that small.

Cause... what people often overlook (because they are taught that the copying is the most horrible crime there is by music and movie media companies) - it is NOT stealing.
Its copyright infringement. Making a copy of something without having legal rights to do so.
BTW... when a great (or just greatly paid) artist does it is called an homage.

So in reality... when you take it that you invested your time and skill, money for material, and all other costs that derive from making the statues (you didn't make them out on the street, right?) - original artist's commission from using his characters would come out to maybe a price of a cup of coffee per statue.

Now... anyone going after their fans because of something that small is very soon going to need that money cause nobody likes greedy bastards.

On the other hand, should you start cranking statues by thousands and making hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars using someone elses characters - now that is something worth calling in a couple of lawyers to "shake you down".

Kamui04 · Post by **Kamui04** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:20 pm

Denzacar already mentioned the legal status of this stuff. What Vilma is making is what we know as a Garage Kit, the japanese are already familiar with them and it's been done for ages under the artists noses without a problem. The same goes for the Doujinshis which are fanmade drawings or mangas which most of the time use characters from another author and do you see any manga artist suing them? In japan you have the Comiket where fans sell thousands of doujinshis or you have the Wonderfest where they sell thousands of figures using some author's properties and do you see the authorities raiding this places?

Since long time ago fans have been sculpting their figures and casting copies in resin in their garage/backyard thus the name of garage kits, it also applies to American comics and movie characters too. They're usually low count runs from a few dozen to a few hundred copies. Most of the time they're sold at conventions or stores and they were pretty hard to find since they'd be sold-out pretty soon because of their limited numbers and availability. On the other hand companies do pay the royalty fees to the author or the publishing companies when they make/sell figures since their production runs are bigger and it's easier to sue a positioned company.

Ten, fifteen years ago resin kits were the only viable method of having a figure of your favorite character at home. You'd spend $100-500 on a figure and you needed some skills to assemble and paint them, or spend extra paying someone to do that job. Today with the low cost manufacturing of prepainted PVC figures in China you can get a nice figure for $50-70 dlls. Now they take up 95% of the figures market vs a 5% of resin kits. Obviously that doesn't guarantee that a big company will choice the characters/subjects you like to manufacture a big run of pvc figures. That's why there are still some people left that still sculpt their own and sell copies to fans who share their same interest.

Really, you have time to point out that about Vilma's work, yet you didn't say anything about scanlating GLO

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:20 pm

thank you my man, im just makeing up to three cause i want to paint them in differnt vairant's , and if anyone want's one ill sell it to them but the original is mine!! lol

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:04 pm

sorry that i havent updatd i have the body 80 percent done i need to attach one more arm and then her head <which i havent made yet> then the arm blades then the next part, painting but i havent felt very motivated so i havent workd on it in a week sorry i need so motovation guys come on !!!

vilma21 · Post by **vilma21** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:03 pm

i an lazy but now have time to work on this, i will ge it done and you all will be like

i need motovation