Sunday, February 21, 2010

Limited Edition Gallery

Since my lovely welcome in Caledon I've been moving progressively farther from JUST reporting the news. I'll still be doing that, of course, but it will probably mostly go to the Naughty News blog.

In the meantime, thanks to the help of several friends, I've manged to get my first few gallery works up. Stop by Steam Sonnet and see the limited edition Luxuria Mystic runs. There are three on display at the moment. I expect to have a fourth named "Lilith" up just as soon as I sell one to pay for uploads.

For a bit more detail, I'll just quote the notecard given out in the store:
About Luxuria Mystic Limited Editions

Every work you see here with a number is an original and for sale. Each piece has a limited run of 10 prints. Each print is signed (or kissed) and numbered. Unnumbered works have already sold out, but they are kept on display with their information where possible.

All works for sale are no mod to prevent accidental damage but Zenmondo Worsmer has kindly provided a size changing script so that you can fit the work to whatever size you need. All works are transferrable. When you buy one, you are buying the original, not the contents or a copy, so you will also need to Take it after your purchase.

On the back of each work is a credits page. Most of the work is mine alone, but some pieces do involve public domain portraits of historical figures or, in the case of Lovelace Athena, Lord Byron's poetry. Where possible, the original artists recieve proper credit.

The bottom of the credits contains the date and time of the work's creation. This is an anti-copying device. You can compare the date and time on the credits to the prim that your artwork is on. If they match and the creator is Magdalena Outlander then you can be confident that your limited edition print is genuine. If you should happen to find a print without this information, or where the prim does not match the credits, you are looking at a counterfeit. Please inform me immediately.

All prints on sale at the gallery start with number 3 of 10. Number 2 is always given as a gift to a particularly inspiring Caledonian. Number 1 is reserved and will be auctioned off either for charity or once all eight of the prints for sale have sold. The inofrmation card on each print will tell you who received print number 2, a landmark to its current location (if known). The same information is provided for the number 1 print if it has sold.

There's a lot more to a limited edition than just uploading a texture. Each one has to be created from a plywood box to produce a different creation time. There is no shift-copy used in these works. Each individual piece requires two custom textures to be uploaded. One for the numbered artwork itself and the other for the credits that denotes both the number and creation time.

In other news, Takashi someone won mayor of Hard Alley. Thanks to everyone who braved the bad air and worse RP to vote for me.

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