Friday, April 11, 2003

Mad. I'm still mad about a TV production company stealing one of my illustrations. If anybody's interested, this is the mail I sent them this morning (German, sorry, but they're based in Munich): Hallo Herr Reichenberger, Ich finde es toll, daß sie einen neuen Raumpatrouille Film produzieren. Ich finde es nicht so toll, daß eine meiner Raumpatrouille Illustrationen auf ihrer Trailer Website als Teil eines 'Covers', 'Plakats' oder 'Bilds' Verwendung findet. Mein Original ist hier: http://www.kag15.dial.pipex.com/gallery.html Hat man mich gefragt, ob ich diese Illustration zur Verfügung stelle? Nein. Wird irgendwo auf der Trailer-Website mein Name erwähnt? Nein. Nun bin ich durchaus nicht auf Geld aus, aber ihrem Designer (oder ist das etwa sogar ne Agentur?) gehört gehörig auf die Finger geklopft - Urheberrecht scheint ein Fremdwort für diese Person zu sein. Ich erwarte Namensnennung auf der Website sowie auf allen gedruckten Materialien, auf denen meine Illustration abgebildet ist. Das ist ja nu das mindeste. Mit freundlichen Grüssen aus London, Ralf Zeigermann That should be ok. Or what? Majo? Jörg? 11:11:24 PM     |

Model Sheets. Model sheets are for animators to keep the animated comic characters consistent. So that Yogi Bear always looks like Yogi Bear, although he is being drawn by gazillions of artists, each with their own style, Yogi Bear needs to be Yogi Bear (I could tell you a story about the Dentagard Beaver here, where it didn't work thanks to the Creative Director, but that would be telling). Anyway, my mate Reimund found a website with hundreds of those model sheets from Disney Studios, Anime, Universal, Hanna Barbera, Dreamworks... Guys, this is ART! And it's all handmade. With pencils and stuff like that. No computers. Honestly. 10:19:09 PM     |

It happened on German TV. 1966: America encountered pointy ears. Old Europe encountered pointy bras. There's a new Space Patrol movie in the makes, 90 minutes long and with additional music by the composer Peter Thomas. More infos and a trailer (Quicktime and Media Player) are here. I should be really happy now, but, as a matter of fact, I am really pissed off. See the image on the left? That's taken from their website. See the spaceship Orion? Well, that's one of my Orion renderings. Has anyone asked me for permission to use my illustration? No. Does my name appear anywhere on the website? No. If I don't get an answer very quickly to the email I fired off this morning, I'll get a solicitor on the case. Very quickly. 9:18:41 PM     |