captain action and dr evil

Sean · November 11th, 2008, 06:59 PM

Back in June I was asked to colour the box art for 'soon to be released' retro-action dolls for these two characters from the 1960's - Captain Action and his arch-nemesis "Dr Evil"

Well Art Thibert drew them , and I duly coloured them up (twice for the Captain Action figure) and then we heard... well a lot of excuses and mucking around wanting changes, which Art and I did, and then a lot more excuses and mucking around on backgrounds... and at the end of the day? No money.

So I've emailed the people involved at least once a month since then and never received single reply, so now I decided that they're a lost cause and I'm posting these anyway. There were no contracts or exclusivity NDA's signed so I'm not breaking anything there. It was all a 'gentlemen's agreement' - but I guess Art T and I are the only gentlemen involved here. (so, sorry about the watermark this time)

Backgrounds are what I initially visualised them to be. If these ever see the light of day and are actually made into a final product then those'll be a lot different.

Pencils and inks = Art Thibert

cheers
Sean

Darrell Lawrence · November 11th, 2008, 07:23 PM

Better hope they didn't decide they liked one of the pieces and use it without your permission.

Nice work on the glows, btw!

Sean · November 11th, 2008, 08:04 PM

they never got the high resolution printable file, so if their stupid enough to go with the scaled down low res stuff I sent them then good luck to them - it'll look horribly pixellated when printed

gmd3d · November 12th, 2008, 01:42 AM

STUNNING work and colouring is fantastic

evil_genius_180 · November 12th, 2008, 10:51 AM

I keep thinking of Austin Powers when I see this thread title.

Great work as usual, BTW. I can't believe that those guys didn't like that stuff. You guys did an excellent job on those. But there's just no pleasing some people.

Sean · December 4th, 2008, 03:41 AM

4th December 2008

Well whattya know - they paid up! I got the check today. (yay) It's a shame that it came down to posting the pictures on the internet like this and some rather terse emails back and forth, but at least its resolved and all's well that ends well as they say.

cheers
Sean

Darrell Lawrence · December 4th, 2008, 08:05 AM

Maybe they did try the low rez/pixelated image, and discovered it didn't work, so they had to pay up