Quality of Rilezu cels

[miz ducky]

What really through me off with the SM rilezu is what they did to Ryuuki's hair color.

Your Ryuuki rilezu worried me too.

The hair is way off but so are his robes.

I simply can not justify spending that kind of money on something that I won't completely LOVE, let alone be satisfied with.

There is a site that I've seen recently the specified that colors may not match the anime perfectly. I think this site also had rilezu for around $100 and up. They didn't sell Saiunkoku.
This is a wise business decision, but I think that if they are going to make that sort of disclaimer, then they might be more willing to make a product that doesn't match.

[birdie]

My SKM Ryuuki is the only one with noticeably different hair color, but for the most part I'm very pleased with my rilezu. My Shuurei is absolutely breathtaking. I just got notification that 2 more are done (Yougetsu - squeeee!) and from the pictures they seem to be spot on. I probably should be more upset than I am about the colors being off considering how much they cost, but I'm not.

[Wendy]

Being a CG 'artist' myself I can tell you that a screencap is never a good basis to check or compare colours used in a show.

JPG/JPEG images always distort the quality and colours. Two screencaps can often differ in colour even if they are taken just moments apart.

The studio uses colour codes to create their CG images, and transferring images digitally; wether you're making a scan of your cel, or transferring an image from a dvd to your computer will always result in either quality loss or some sort of distortion.
Even the prints I make from my own CG art will differ at least a bit in colour.

I do see what you mean though. And even though I was a rilezu fan myself, I've been questioning the fun of collecting them lately.

I own some Weiss Kreuz Gluhen rilezu cels and their quality is amazing. Plus, back then when these WKG rilezus came out, there was the fun of not knowing what Museum would update next, and you had to be quick to decide.

Now, you can just order your 'dream cel', and that kind of takes the fun and value out of it for me.
Like Poe said; it's just like commissioning a fan cel, only with the difference that these cost a lot more.

...and probably will sell for a lot less because the image you chose may not have the same appeal to others.

[Baylor]

I'm an avid rilezu preorderer (is that a word??) and collector. In the past, I've never had problems with colors matching. FMP, Tactics, Trinity Blood, PriPri, you name it and they're gorgeous. I don't know what has happened with SKM.

AO, I am in utter shock at your finished products. I'm also now very scared for the Seiran rilezu I have in preorder. The rilezu I have thus far of both Ryuuki and Seiran at least has Seiran's hair right. How can they mess it up in other orders?

To answer your question, SP, it depends. With FMP, Tactics, PriPri, and SKM, I have the matching dougas. With Fumoffu and Trinity Blood, I don't. I'm not sure why that is, either.

[RoboFlonne]

I think that the CG lighting effects should be added on a second layer to make the hair color the same.

Wow... His hair looks brown in the one mizducky pointed out!

[Keropi]

To answer your question, SP, it depends. With FMP, Tactics, PriPri, and SKM, I have the matching dougas. With Fumoffu and Trinity Blood, I don't. I'm not sure why that is, either.

I'm pretty sure that Stephen said that Rilezu titles without any sketches weren't given the permission to include them.

With all those rights issues being juggled around between companies and individuals, I suppose we shouldn't be very surprised over that.

[awajikiwi]

To answer your question, SP, it depends. With FMP, Tactics, PriPri, and SKM, I have the matching dougas. With Fumoffu and Trinity Blood, I don't. I'm not sure why that is, either.

I'm pretty sure that Stephen said that Rilezu titles without any sketches weren't given the permission to include them.

With all those rights issues being juggled around between companies and individuals, I suppose we shouldn't be very surprised over that.

Correct ! Basically the companies holding the copyright decided they didn't want the douga included with the rielzu and thought in was better to burn it after the rilezu were produced.

[Cloud]

You and your FMP Tactics PriPri and SKM I have the matching dougas.

[vampyreshoujo]

they didn't want the douga included with the rielzu and thought in was better to burn it after the rilezu were produced.

Literally? Ouch! So all those Trinity Blood sketches went up in flames...

[awajikiwi]

they didn't want the douga included with the rielzu and thought in was better to burn it after the rilezu were produced.

Literally? Ouch! So all those Trinity Blood sketches went up in flames...

Sadly I would say the chances are yes

[Cloud]

Good example.