| RPI Art Submissions Info |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Thursday, 06 March 2008 | |
RolePlayers INK, LLC will usually pettition for work to be done. RPI will tell you what we want, what size, when we need it, and give you any previous art or textual references. In the case of art being used to illustrate a fictional story, RPI will give you the story and the layout with predetermined spaces for art. UnSolicited Art RolePlayersINK, LLC is always looking for good art submissions. Budgets change so you never know when we might be looking for an unexpected piece. Artists who have a portfolio of examples of their art are invited to send it to us (or tell us where you put it on a web site and we will go look at it). You are also welcome to submit random and speculative art which we will happily keep on file. If we like it (if not we will tell you why) and will try to use the submission whenever we find a place for it. Submitted speculative art, will be kept on file until we find a use for it. RPI and the artist will then sign off on the All Rights – All Rights agreement at which point we pay for it (See Below). Artists can ask for any submission to be withdrawn, email or snail mail requests only Rights and Payment RolePlayersINK uses an all rights – all rights policy with any art it uses in its publications. We can use it as we need and so can the artist. Fair is fair. Payment is made on publication, rarely we will make other agreements on a case by case basis. After each product goes to press, RPI will determine a payout schedule of no later than 30 days after product release to anyone who is owed on that project. Any art which includes the intellectual property of RolePlayersINK, LLC. cannot be used elsewhere without our permission, so ask us please. Art Spec’s Overall style RPIis looking for art which looks nearly photographic, anime styles are fine as long as the overall picture is sharp and clean. Interior Art RPI will require a wide variety of art, Color and B&W for our products. SPECIFICATIONS: We want this in electronic form, by Email, as a 300dpi (tif, jpg or photoshop files preferred), final size. B&W should be line art with grayscale shadings. Flattened is fine so long as you keep the original file and can make changes. Expect a list of changes since it is just not possible to give an artist every possible instruction. SUBJECTS: RolePlayersINK, LLC curently is focused on our StrikeForce: 2136 RPG. SciFi art of advanced space ships, ExoSkeletons, action shots, or other image appropriate to the setting will be happily looked at. We are working on other properties from fantasy to post apocolyptic as well so feel free to submit those works as well. SIZE: Standard special-order piece of art is one-column (3.5 inches or 89mm wide) by about four inches (102mm) high. RPI does use other sizes than standard. If you are going to do speculative art, then the 3.5 inch column width should be considered. PAYMENT: RPI pays the industry standard $100 per page rate (a page being 75 square inches, which works out to $1.33 per square inch). RPI reserves the right to print speculative art, that was not done for a specific assignment, in any size that fits the page. RPI trys very hard to use assignment art in the size ordered, but will pay by the larger of the assigned or actual printed size. RPI may also, at its discretion pay more than standard rates for rush jobs.
RolePlayersInk, LLC wants any cover submissions in 300dpi, with a 1/8 bleed around the page size, and in layers so we can use it for advertising and other uses. SPECIFICATIONS: 300dpi photoshop or tif (maybe a jpg would work in a pinch). Flattened is fine so long as you keep the original file and can make changes. Expect us to send you a list of changes since it is usually easier for us to give you changes than give you every possible instruction. Over time, you will learn all of the tricks and tactics of dealing with us. Our printer using a 150-line screen when printing color covers on coated stock. We want the art in layers so we can modify it to use in other locations (mainly advertising). PAYMENT: It depends on many factors (quality, speed, and what product it is going on). This is generally negotiable between $200 and $400. In some cases, we have a "people artist" do people and then lay them on top of a background of stars, planets, and spaceships that Geibel does. In such cases, we pay you for what you do and him for what he does. CARDS and Card Art Specs are generally the same as color covers except for the size which will vary with the cards and the layouts. |
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| Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 March 2008 ) |
