TappedOut Community Set (Irindu's Basic Land)
Community Set
mistergreen527
30 May 2010
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30 May 2010
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While the Design Team is hard at work judging all of your excellent submissions for the Irindu Planeswalker Card Creation Challenge, we're going to move back into the Creative Team's realm. A week ago, we asked the community to submit ideas for Irindu's creature types and iconic characters. Using these suggestions, the Creative Team has decided that Irindu's primary creature types will be Beast, Dragon, Elemental, Human, Mutant, Shapeshifter, Sphinx, Weird, Wizard, and Wurm. A lot of you also expressed interest in having Dwarves in our set. While the Creative Team didn't think that a group of people associated with rigidity would fit well on a shard immersed in so much change, they have decided to incorporate dwarves into a different shard. There will be more details on this when we start focusing on that shard. Incorporating some of the iconic character ideas will happen as we continue to develop Irindu's story.
The goal of the Creative Team this week is to find the art for Irindu's basic land. To do this, we're looking for your submissions. Here is honeymomo's description of that for which the Creative Team is looking:
The goal of this article is to decide on four pieces of art that will be used for Irindu's basic lands; two islands, one mountain, and one forest. You can submit work you've created yourself or artwork that you've found elsewhere, but please make sure you provide proper sourcing and documentation so it can be used per fair rights, and that we can credit the artists. If the creative team decides on any of the art submitted, it will be featured as part of the basic land for this set!
When considering art pieces (or for those of you creating ones yourselves), please keep in mind that Irindu is an artificial shard just like the others. This does not mean that it is mechanical or 'fake' in the sense of astro-turf, but thatched together with transplants from all over, such as mountains with peaks and shapes not matching those expected in nature and forests of trees that generally do not grow densely together like a jungle. An apt quotation to help funnel this to one end is in regards to a Salvador Dali painting called The Temptation of St. Anthony. Newberry describes the painting by saying, "Here Dali uses some realistic elements and then distorts aspects of them to create an imagined world in which the unbelievable interacts with the real. Irindu is such a world. Real forests, islands and mountains being blended together in unbelievable ways, be that through floating, detachments, or physically impossible contours and shapes. The rivers are still rivers, but they do not need to follow the laws of nature; a river could bend and flow up into the sky, a tree could grow sideways, and a mountain could exist with its peak as the widest point while it balanced on a narrow base.
The deadline for submissions will be Wednesday, June 2 at 11:59 p.m.
Also, don't forget that if you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the Community Set Creation, you can email me at [email protected].
mistergreen527 says... #2
@SirNips:
Good question. I believe the plan is to use normal-sized art.
May 31, 2010 10:12 a.m.
s0m_the_Wise says... #3
Well i assume you post stuff here... i found this absolutely magnificent piece of artwork by peter lee on the diablo 3 website which i think would be perfect for an island
http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/artwork/ss59-hires.jpg
It is a huge picture so i don't know what it will look like when small.
May 31, 2010 1:46 p.m.
Darkness1835 says... #4
Here's a neat photo about a man-land-ish Island. Just an idea.
http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=island&order=9&offset=384#/dt5fb6
Drawn by Rory Lane Lutter
May 31, 2010 2:06 p.m.
My favorite island that I've found thus far:
http://digitalblasphemy.com/graphics/320x320/circumpolar320x320.jpg
by Ryan Bliss of Digital Blasphemy
May 31, 2010 2:13 p.m.
I'm not sure what this would be classified as, maybe forest? But it has a bit of all three, and I thought it fit. http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=mountain&order=9&offset=24#/d230mro Patrik Hjelm
And perhaps this for mountain. It's not very fiery per se, but it's red and rocky. http://unidcolor.deviantart.com/#/d2jd1q8 Patrik Hjelm
May 31, 2010 2:40 p.m.
http://nathie.deviantart.com/art/Sancta-Terra-155844900 forest
http://nathie.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2012pp mountain
http://nathie.deviantart.com/art/Seashore-95881357?q=gallery%3Anathie%2F4243933&qo=11 island
May 31, 2010 6:52 p.m.
Tama, nathie doesn't allow people to use his art for anything :(
June 1, 2010 12:22 a.m.
acewilliams says... #9
i know its uncommon but for mountains there are some real pictures that rival what artists have done.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060129.html
June 1, 2010 2:07 a.m.
DeckBuilder345 says... #11
http://www.jupiterimages.com/Image/royaltyFree/86462163#Header
Could be either an island or a mountain... or dare i say it a dual land!!!
June 2, 2010 2:14 a.m.
and for some reason i put the wrong thing in so its actually
m1
June 2, 2010 9:57 a.m.
KrazyCaley says... #17
Re: Using Nathie's art:
As the resident lawyer at TappedOut, I do not believe that using Nathie's art for our purposes here would constitute Fair Use as I understand it, plus it would also not be very sporting to use the images without his consent.
I would recommend seeking and obtaining the artist's permission to use his IP before we go splashing it on our project here.
-C
June 3, 2010 8:06 p.m.
KrazyCaley says... #18
Also, lest anyone think otherwise, I am not acting as the attorney for TappedOut or any individual user OF TappedOut, nor does my last comment establish an attorney-client relationship with any user of TappedOut, or the entity itself.
The last comment is only a recommendation to obtain the artist's consent before using the art, and is not legal advice.
June 3, 2010 8:08 p.m.
mattlohkamp says... #20
Just out of curiosity, why not, re:fair use? It's noncommercial, presents the work in the same media in which they're already publicly available (in lower res, even,) serves to popularize the work to a new audience if properly cited... I'm not the lawyer, obviously, but I thought that those sort of factors make the fair use argument more viable.
June 3, 2010 10:10 p.m.
@Matt: Creative Commons. Don't be a douche. If you want to message him and explain the situation then go for it. But otherwise, we should not use it.
June 6, 2010 1:35 a.m.
KrazyCaley says... #22
It may or may not be Fair Use, but again, I suspect that it probably would not be mostly because we don't have a particularly stirring reason for taking this guy's stuff without his permission- it's just basically for our own private entertainment. While the artist may benefit from it, I'm sure he would say that he would rather control where people have to come to see his art, rather than seeing it splashed about our site and who knows where else. When you add that to the fact that we'd be commandeering entire works from him, I'd say there's a pretty good argument that it's not Fair Use.
In any case, the real point here is risk/reward. It would be very easy to just contact the guy and ask him. I'll do it if no one else wants to. Further, even if he says no, there would be plenty of other places where we could GET more-than-suitable art for our purposes without potentially violating someone's intellectual property rights. Given these alternatives, and given the unfortunate consequences if we assume that our use is fair and it isn't (or even if it is, but the artist is unhappy about it), I again suggest seeking the artist's permission, and seeking alternative art if he says no.
June 6, 2010 5:30 a.m.
mattlohkamp says... #23
right right, I wasn't saying there was or should be a compelling reason to do it, or anything, like I said, I was just curious.
SirNips says... #1
full art land...?
May 31, 2010 3:16 a.m.