It's bespoke. Now I know that sounds fancy but it's really not... When my eldest moved out, the youngest took her room, and the small bedroom became my home office/man cave. It's a box room, and over the stairs, so we needed a built in wardrobe over the stairs bit to maximise space. But that also means it's a damned big wardrobe! Anyway, it's still in situ, so I lowered the shelf it had, added supports, and Unicron sits on top. Underneath I've got nothing yet. I'm torn on display options, so it's either a huge Quintesson Pit, which would look brilliant under Unicron, but limit my space elsewhere... or all 6 (5 and 2 fifths right now) of my MP combiners go in, but I can't visualise my shelves after that... or, all my S1-2 decepticons go on it (TFTM ones with Unicron) and have my shelves with all autobots and one shelf with the Quintesson Pit mock-up. 1st world problems, eh?
Oh I see! Sounds pretty good. Funnily enough the idea I mentioned earlier is to try and build a Quintesson courtroom including pit (now that I've troop-built judges and Sharkticons lol). My corner unit has Unicron in bot mode in it, but planet mode is just slightly too wide at the rings to fit. But I like the idea of a wraparound backdrop, possibly involving Cybertron, so I'll have to see what I can do! I know lol, and I don't even recognise some of the ones he's selling, they look like they could be KOs of the Toystages dioramas...!
I mean, the source material is copyrighted. No matter if he made the backdrops himself from the cartoon, or stole them from you, he's still selling stuff he doesn't have the rights to.
Introductory: - G1 Cartoon Backgrounds to Use for Backdrops - Part Seven Introductory: - G1 Cartoon Backgrounds to Use for Backdrops - Part Eight Introductory: - G1 Cartoon Backgrounds to Use for Backdrops - Part Nine Thanks again, @OptimusTimelord!
Too true, but I doubt anyone's coming after him anytime soon. You could even argue that it's beneficial to the fandom to have these backdrops available to buy for our shelves (I certainly don't have the capacity to print them myself). It would have been nice if this dude had the courtesy to ask first, but of course there was never anything stopping him just screen grabbing his own versions anyway. Sadly he's taken it upon himself to stretch 4:3 images into his landscape panorama format, and to rather ineptly digitally extend a few of them with clone/repeat edits. Ironically if I'd been approached I'd have happily joined forces with him and created extended high-res panoramas based on the original images. Ah well. I guess it will depend on the quality of card/finish you want, but yeah if dude doesn't want to do it for whatever reason I'm sure a regular print shop will be happy to help.
I can't help but feel pretty pissed off about all this. It saddens me Greatly. OptimusTimelord has put a lot of time and effort into all of this. I credit his work with these backgrounds very regularly. I just want to thank you again for everything you have done.
In that case I will probably just shop around on a print shop that I know to get pricing on how much will be the cost for one (Cybertron city) and depending on that I will let them know or not about doing the different backgrounds... Now that I'm thinking there maybe a few online like the ones that do business cards...
Awww thank you bud! But seriously, it's not worth getting worked up about, this is something I did to share my enjoyment of the toon art with the fandom. Believe me I've had much worse: people selling my own actual artwork online without permission (and it's stupidly difficult to get them stopped) as well as a guy who cut my credits off my YouTube animations and reposted them himself There are always gonna be idiots out there, we can't reason with them, we just gotta learn to live with 'em! Yeah worth a try. At least this way you can get the art accurately reproduced, and to the exact size and shape of your shelves, rather than a pre-made shoddy cash grab
I checked on a website with that service but they don't even have the 13" x 23" so I went with something close to that and the price went more than $15 on what the guy on eBay is selling them...
Late last year I stitched several of the backgrounds from here together in Gimp and printed them on my large format printer. Fun project.
That looks insanely awesome... Jealous of your printer! Every time I look at the photo of it I think that's a tennis ball on the left and it doesn't seem that impressive, then I see the canned drink on top and realise it's actually massive That's pretty sweet! Love the smoke, is it practical or added in?
