RoboFlonne wrote:It's strange, but people believe that cheap items aren't real!
True: I used a clip from an anime in my GMU class last spring, and then at the break I passed around a sketch set I'd gotten from one of the cuts in it. They were astonished. "I assumed these were kept in a vault somewhere in the studio," one said. It's as surprising as realizing that people used to go
Dumpster-diving outside Disney and WB studios for cels.
RoboFlonne wrote:Birdie! Your problem is you were selling it for too little!
*smacks head* That's what I've been doing wrong! I'll just move that decimal point over and start all my auctions at $99.99! I may not sell much but it'll cut down on those annoying questions!
sensei wrote:Sometimes a random act of kindness comes back to haunt you in the end, even in the face of the roaring crowd.
You're a good person, sensei... and the ideal of living by the law of mitzvah is something that everyone should aspire to. BUT... eBay's buyer pool can be a hellish quagmire for the unwary seller. A lawyer friend of mine has an extremely dismal motto that applies rather well: Don't feed the trolls.
Baylor wrote:I'm going to start using the Moop Clause in my e-mails that ask such questions.
For production art, asking something like that is going a little too far.
However, with the bootleg cesspool that is Evilbay, you have to make double sure with most other items. If I suspect an item is a bootleg, I straight out ask (using the language sellers use to gloss it over, of course--"Is this an import?"). If I don't get an answer, I assume it was bootlegged and move on.
I don't know what it is with people . . . didn't someone ask you the exact same question some months ago? Or am I making things up in my mind? Maybe people are getting a little more paranoied with CG art, because it seems like it could be more easily duplicated (I mean, I have paper and pencils).
Well...I just got my first question about authenticity. They want to know:
Is there some sort of documentation to show that these are pre-production sketches?
If that is going to be their basis for collecting, they are going to have an incredibly small collection. I don't have anything...not a one...that would document such a thing.
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I'd say, no, given the volume of animation art coming on the market from Japan, the studios simply can't provide COAs like Disney and other US-based studios. However, based on my experience with similar art, the things that make me confident that these are genuine pre-production art are ...
I put a lot of stock on the cumulative damage that real sketches undergo in being shuffled from place to place: erasures, deliberate scoring by watercolor artists, creases, paint (and coffee) splashes, etc. Plus, we all recognize the little annotations, numberings, and so on that go with real art.
You could just say, "No, but it looks just like all the other pre-production art that I own: see my gallery for details."
Satan could have created all these fakes to misguide the weak in faith (just like he made all those darn fossils that seem to support the theory of evolution). But IMHO he has fatter souls to fry than by encouraging people to create large numbers of fake anime sketches.
i've had one person ask on if the sketch was real or not.
*shakes head*now i may not have the greatest knowledge with cels and sketches. i do know that if i see sequence or cut numbers on cels and sketches or the cels have there original sketches. i know there real.
now bidding on douga i dont know. i do know if the seller is one i have dealt with it's real.
