Ever have one of those days....? by Treybor

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Ever have one of those days....?

POSTED BY: TREYBOR
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 14:07
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:39 AM

Yes...I am that Sean Kennedy.

Ever have one of those days....?

Last week I ordered The "Firefly: Official Companion Volume 2"
http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-Official-Companion-Joss-Whedon/dp/184576
3726/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/104-9425036-6763128?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182910883&sr=8-3

I got it yesterday and was thumbing through, when lo and behold, what do I find on page 36...The 3D images of Serenity I posted on the Lightwave Forums back in August of 2004....

The first thing I thought, "WOW! They used my images in an Official Firefly book!! Cool!!!!"

The second thing I thought, "But wait... there's no credit anywhere that I made them....Drat!!"

I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad.... I really feel honored that they fely my images were good enough for the book, but it would have been great if they would have acknowleged my contribution to the Firefly/Browncoat world....

So I'm torn....Do I call the publisher and ask them to correct the oversight in the next printing? I'm not really looking to sue anyone or make money off this, but I did build that version of the mesh and created the images.

Or should I just be happy I wasn't sued by Zoic or Fox for creating such an acccurate recreateion of the Firefly mesh?

Good Grief! I've become public domain....

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:09 AM

03K64FF

First of all, I am glad for the quality of work so good that it is in the official book. On the other hand, I am not sure if publishers would've picked up images from forum to print in the book.

Are you 100% sure that these are your images? (I personally do not doubt your judgment or quality of work and since u have posted them here, I am pretty sure that you are sure!

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I'd call the publisher and just ask the source of these images and then show them that I created and it'd be nice if they can credit me, otherwise it is okay.

Good luck!
~Jari

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:15 AM

TREYBOR

Yes...I am that Sean Kennedy.

Thanks Jari.

Yeah if you compare them side by side it beomes pretty obvious they are identical.... Right down to the ship positioning and lighting angles.

Treybor: (tray-bOr)n - That due who ceated the Serenity Modeling Ttutorial http://www.lwg3d.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27346

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:15 AM

TREYBOR

Yes...I am that Sean Kennedy.

Thanks Jari.

Yeah if you compare them side by side it beomes pretty obvious they are identical.... Right down to the ship positioning and lighting angles.

Treybor: (tray-bOr)n - That dude who ceated the Serenity Modeling Ttutorial http://www.lwg3d.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27346

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:42 AM

JONGSSTRAW

Wasn't The Traybor a bad guy on a Buck Rogers episode? I believe he was played by legendary B movie bad-boy actor William Smith, and he ruled as sort of a warlord over the planet Katan's citizens....that is until Buck defeated him.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:14 AM

TREYBOR

Yes...I am that Sean Kennedy.

Wrong Treybor.

Treybor: (tray-bOr)n - That dude who ceated the Serenity Modeling Ttutorial http://www.lwg3d.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27346

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:07 PM

CAPTAINCOUPI

As long as you are sure that the images are the same ones that you created I would contact the publisher. Explain to them that you are not looking for money or to take action against them but you would just like to be acknowledged.

I don't think that they will want to take action against you for creating the image. It's original composition not a straight copy of an existing image or model. You haven't ripped off someone elses work so I can't see it as a problem.

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