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No flames, just thoughts ^_^x (Sun Mar 9 02:36:30 2003 )
Lady Jekyll [View profile ]


I personally discourage the marketing of fancels 
because I am interested in protecting the rights 
of the original creators and studios, if that 
makes any sense.  After schooling and training in 
the Western Animation field, you learn a great 
respect for the creators-
and it goes all the way to the top- you learn to 
respect the original wishes of the 
creators/writers/manga artists of the original 
characters ( that's why I so heavily disagree 
with marketing hentai about characters who, by 
wishes of the original creator, were never meant 
to be in hentai situations together ) but that's 
another story and another personal belief I'll 
most likely get flamed for ^_^x

Anywise, I do believe it makes it harder for 
someone to sell a cel if fancels are being made 
of it and are floating around as well.  Because 
the general idea of lots of people will 
be, "That's expensive!  Why pay that much when I 
can just get a fancel made."  So I can see how 
that would make it harder for dealers and 
collectors to sell certain cels ( not in ALL 
fancel cases mind you, but quite enough, IMHO ) 
for what they are truely worth.  Also, fancels, 
as they get "handed down" tend to create 
problems, as I have seen many a heartbreak among 
friends who have mistakingly shelled out hundreds 
and hundreds of dollars for a fan cel, thinking 
it was original, for there was no mention of it 
being a fan cel in the item description of 
auctions and the like.

Fan cels won't ever be 100% legit, and I don't 
like them, personally.  So many of them seem to 
be half-assed these days just to turn a profit on 
a currently popular and/or trendy show.  However, 
I have to applaud those who make fan cels based 
on their OWN poses and own ideas/situations, 
instead of just another screencap or original cel 
rip.  I think fan cels are fun when created on 
your own and distributed among friends, but when 
you are blowing up screencaps and images you find 
in other people's galleries, tracing them, and 
then slapping them on ebay in sole interest of 
making money and *not* with providing someone 
with a much-wanted image, then it's wrong.  In my 
book anyway ^_^x.  Hope I haven't stepped on any 
toes.



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