Vintage Serenity Poster

POSTED BY: GrayFury
UPDATED: Friday, September 1, 2006 04:44
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NOSADSEVEN

Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:57 PM

Yeah, this poster was one of a series of 'retro' posters designed by a member of this forum and posted in the Blue Sun Room for fun: as fanart and for use in spreading the word. They were never sold or anything. As far as I know they were never actually printed (except, perhaps off of someone's home computer). Yes, they use 'stolen' images, but so does virtually every other piece of fanart. Even fanfic is an infringement of copyrights...

Edited to add: I defer to 11thHour's knowledge of the shortlived Zazzle shop (below).

Edited again to add: Ok. Now I defer to Tiger (even further below)!

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Ain't. We. Just.

GRAYFURY

Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:11 PM

I'm sorry....I didnt know that this was a copyright infringement issue... Ya gotta admit...its a cool poster.

But out of respect for the artist....lets just let this topic die... PLEASE NO MORE POSTS AFTER THIS ONE!!!!

"Smellin' alot of IF comin' offa' this plan!"

11THHOUR

Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by GrayFury:
But out of respect for the artist....lets just let this topic die... PLEASE NO MORE POSTS AFTER THIS ONE!!!!

Well, I had already been typing a message when I came back and saw this request.

No disrespect at all intended... just offering some background info on this image if people are curious.

This fan made retro Serenity poster appeared a while back, as people have already noted... and I can't remember who made it either. For a very brief time it was offered for sale through Zazzle, or some similar service, but was yanked soon afterward.

By using someone else's artwork without permission, and incorporating the official Universal Studios logo in a format which mimics a real movie poster, this item was destined for removal by that printing service.

I think a few fans may have purchased copies before it disappeared, but I haven't seen it offered any where else for sale since. However, the nature of the Internet being what it is, once an image gets on the web... it lives on forever.

11th Hour

TIGER

Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:52 PM

I think I MIGHT be able to shed some light on the situation since I've been a Firefly fan from the beginning and I've been visiting this board for years - but mostly because I DESIGNED THAT POSTER.

Here it is with a few others I made up a while back when "Serenity" was first green lit -

http://www.jsoule-webdesign.com/posters/

They are not for sale and never have been. Even so, all the artwork is original EXCEPT the character sketch in the poster above which I snagged from another blue sun item here - http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=1320
- to which I gave credit when I first posted it on this site.

It's just some typical Blue Sun, fan-with-too-much-time, trying-to-help-the-verse, artwork. I can't believe anybody cares - I'm so flattered! Even more so when I realize that people actually think Jason Palmer did the poster. I'm just a casual photoshopper, that guy has REAL talent.

Believe it or not I caught some guy in Boston selling my wanted posters at a comic con and claiming them as his own. This stuff sure gets around!

EDIT:

Quote:
Originally posted by Llalachka:
Hi everyone,
This is Yelena Palmer - Jason's wife (we've probably met at some of the shows.) Actually, some of your posts are right on the money - this image was indeed stolen from Jason's Firefly piece and someone is apparently using it without our permission or without Universal's permission. Given that we are paying a large sum of all of our sales to Universal in an effort to make a difference, and they are not, this is very upsetting. If anyone knows more about this vendor, I'd appreciate an email to yelenapal@earthlink.net
look forward to seeing everyone at Flan II!
Thanks and regards

Yelena

I just read her post, and I'll shoot off an email to her personally, just to make sure nobody's really worried their stuff is being stolen.

HERA

Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tiger:
Here it is with a few others I made up a while back when "Serenity" was first green lit -

http://www.jsoule-webdesign.com/posters/

Tiger, just wanted to let you know that I have a printout of a jpg of your poster on my door at the office. It so nice to be able to say thank you in person to you. Thank you. I love it!

-Hera

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

TIGER

Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hera:
Tiger, just wanted to let you know that I have a printout of a jpg of your poster on my door at the office. It so nice to be able to say thank you in person to you. Thank you. I love it!

-Hera

Fantastic!! That's exactly why I made them. Thanks for letting me know!

GWENHARKER

Friday, September 1, 2006 4:44 AM

Yeah, after Serenity got greenlit, we were all making a bunch of fan posters here in the Blue Sun Room. I clearly remember seeing this. I don't think it was ever sold officially, mostly used for desktop wallpaper or, as someone did with my posters, mobile phone wallpapers.

However I haven't been to any conventions where this could have possibly been sold.

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