One Of Our Own Has a Ship In 'Float Out' by SoulOfSerenity

Hotpoint & Artships Granite Gorge was also featured in the second story of the comic.

http://www.artships.com/2004/gorge.php

I can't do the pic link thing atm though.

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Friday, June 4, 2010 9:13 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

Holy crap. You're right.

Edited to add a scan from the comic:

Methinks someone perused Artships' site for some "inspiration"...

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Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Friday, June 4, 2010 9:25 AM

Eureka! I do believe I have found the artist's inspirational site...

http://www.quantummechanix.com/Bellflower-Ships.html

The Rolling Thunder, The Granite Gorge, The Autumn Jade, and two of the ships featured in 'Other Ships' all make a visual appearance in Float Out.

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Friday, June 4, 2010 9:41 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

Woah...that's crazy!!!! I mean, it's one thing to put something in the comic as a homage to the fans, but that level of copying without so much as a line of credit to the original creators...hmm...

There's even yet another ship under "other ships" used in the comic...it's in the picture with the dozen or so models...

Wow...and most of the ships in the hull of the Reaver ship are from that same site...including Bellflower...

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Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Friday, June 4, 2010 9:59 AM

Thanks for the heads-up about this 'Ski.

Familiar looking vessels indeed!

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Friday, June 4, 2010 10:01 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

Hey Hotpoint, you know I have to do this...

NEED MORE FANFIC!!!!!

Still...crazy...

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Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Friday, June 4, 2010 10:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SoulOfSerenity:
Hey Hotpoint, you know I have to do this...

NEED MORE FANFIC!!!!!

Hey I've written loads more Fanfic... just not for Firefly :-p

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Friday, June 4, 2010 10:22 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

Yeah, yeah....

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Friday, June 4, 2010 10:26 AM

Has anybody got hold of Artships yet incidentally?

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Friday, June 4, 2010 10:29 AM

I have attempted through his website, and through here. No word yet.

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Friday, June 4, 2010 10:29 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

Quote:
Originally posted by Hotpoint:
Has anybody got hold of Artships yet incidentally?

'Ski and I sent him emails earlier.

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Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:05 AM

ANGELLEMARCS

Sometimes you just need to stop, breathe deep, and scream.

This is totally awesome honor, 'Ski. Wishing they would have giving you props for it, but just to see it there is definitely a freaking big deal. You, my friend, deserve being on cloud nine. :)

Angelle

"I've made a career out of listening to the voices in my head. I know it's a bit disturbing, but I like it. I'm a writer."

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:05 AM

BYTEMITE

Ouch. Copyrighted and everything.

He probably saw them on QmX and thought they'd be okay to use because QmX made them into official merchandise.

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:21 AM

Actually... just got done replying to an email from Mr Patric Reynolds, the artist on Float Out... He did send in an acknowledgement of his inspirations to Dark Horse, but they failed to print it for some reason.

I told him that I for one was honored that Artships & I were able to inspire him, and thanked him for making the ships look so good.

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:23 AM

ARTSHIPS

Just heard from Mullins and... Wow! Flattering to see other artists pickup on my stuff.

Bellflower -- Hey! New spaceship pics! -- Has permission to use the pictures. This comic... Could have asked. Oh! "official merchandise"? Maybe I can get copy of my very own?

I'd better start poking around. Thanks, guys.

(I'm suffering an email crisis - Lost all my filtering. If you've written me, I lost it. I'm sorry.)

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:25 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by artships:
Just heard from Mullins and... Wow! Flattering to see other artists pickup on my stuff.

Bellflower -- Hey! New spaceship pics! -- Has permission to use the pictures. This comic... Could have asked. Oh! "official merchandise"? Maybe I can get copy of my very own?

I'd better start poking around. Thanks, guys.

Well we always knew your stuff was great!

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:31 AM

ANGELLEMARCS

Sometimes you just need to stop, breathe deep, and scream.

Well, glad someone appreciated you all. :)

Angelle

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:35 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

Patric Reynolds replied to my email as well, and rather quickly! He seemed very humble about the whole situation and wanted nothing more than to recognize those who inspired him.

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Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:48 AM

The Man They Call Soul...

From Patric Reynolds himself:

"Serenity: Float Out" simply could not have been possible without the inspiration and reference that I found at fireflyshipworks.com. I was more than fortunate to find a wellspring of ideas that were very thoughtfully designed by such dedicated artists who have created (and maintained) a completely engaging universe. I am glad that their ideas have gotten the visibility they deserve by being depitcted in a mainstream comic. They were too good not to be seen by so many readers and they only add to the rich Serenity vocabulary. The artist's imagination not only saved me a lot of headaches, but they have inspired me to keep thinking about how I as an artist can push my own creative boundaries. They have made the extraordinary very real and attainable, and I owe them a debt of gratitude. Thanks y'all."

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Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Friday, June 4, 2010 11:55 AM

Awesome.

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Friday, June 4, 2010 12:05 PM

As a Fanfic writer the urge to send an ironic Cease and Desist order is unbearable. :-p

Hee hee

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Friday, June 4, 2010 4:23 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Fear of litigation is motivational...

As is fear of getting fired and blacklisted.

First ship looks like photoshop of the photo with 180 horizontal flip with an art filter. Takes 30 seconds work to duplicate the "artwork". Or 15 minutes if you're me.

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Friday, June 4, 2010 6:48 PM

DMI

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.

Never got around to fireflyshipworks.com and their corner of the verse. Good stuff and lovin' these Firefly comics.

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Saturday, June 5, 2010 11:59 AM

TREYBOR

Yes...I am that Sean Kennedy.

Doggone it.

I feel somewhat responsible. I created the CG copies of the ships for the Bellflower fan film.

That's how they ran across them at QMx's Bellflower launch site.

I surely hope they gave John some credit for creating the original model. We may be fans but we're not idiots.

Treybor: (tray-bOr)n - That dude who ceated the Serenity Modeling Tutorial http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=375

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Sunday, June 6, 2010 2:53 AM