Comment on Calling fanartists! Tell us about your ideal archive!

  1. Waldo Tue 06 Apr 2010 10:09PM UTC

    Waldo.

    I'd love to see icons (and/or other small art) arranged in a table (or some other form or organization) on one page. Maybe make it so that artists can create a page for each fandom (or other organizational schema) with all the icons on one page. I'd hate to have to click back and forth to see all the icons a given artist has done, one on a page.

    Along with that, a place where an artist can detail their use-permissions would be great. Maybe a check box (like the warnings section of the fic archive)

    - look, don't touch.
    - use, but credit and comment are expected
    - use and leave comment
    - use and give credit on your LJ/DW/whatever
    - have at 'em

    Or something...

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    1. Grey_Bard Tue 06 Apr 2010 11:03PM UTC

      Yes! That would be seriously cool. Sort of like the different varieties of Creative Commons licenses, only fannish courtesy, not national legal. Actually that would be awesome for fics too. Not that the archive should enforce these, or that anyone should, but that viewers and readers would know what the creator's feelings on the subject were.

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    2. softestbullet (bbgulrot) Tue 06 Apr 2010 11:50PM UTC

      A delicate ink drawing of a person, looking down.

      Yeaahh!

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    3. sasha_davidovna (Guest) Wed 07 Apr 2010 03:16PM UTC

      I agree that being able to group related icons into tables would be great. For the user permissions, I think it would be really helpful to add something specifically about modification rights. Some wallpaper artists I know don't want their wallpapers cropped for use as icons, and others are fine with it, and some icon artists are okay with people adding text to textless icons (or even specialize in creating bases for others to modify), while others don't like that. I'm sure there are similar issues with other fanart types, but those are the two I'm most familiar with.

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      1. Elysandra Fri 01 Jul 2011 09:57AM UTC

        Yes!
        I would find it really annoying to view like 20 or even 50 or more icons one after another. I also like the table idea, though I would create it on my own if it wasn't available. What I would really like are those check boxes for permission to use. Though just general 'use' is too broad, imo. I would like it to be more detailed, like suggested above concerning modification rights.

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    5. godtiermeme Thu 30 Aug 2012 09:04PM UTC

      A man hugs a Phryge in front of grimacing Karkat.

      I completely agree with the options. As already stated, something similar (but not the same) as the Creative Commons license.

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