05-13-2004, 04:42 AM
Good point. I was just speaking from a business stand point. Jon being an FX artist with a new kid and I know how sloooow and cut throat the FX biz is.. I\'m lucky to have what little bit of FX work I do have here in Orlando. Its very hard to bring the world masks.
Jon could just as easily have made something like this and sold them at a \'collectors\' price and thats exactly who would have them. Its nice as a collector to have nice, \'hand\' made and painted masks. But if it wasnt for independant artists doing this then the only place you could pick up a mask would be at Wal Mart and this forum wouldnt be here. If this mask actually ended up in retail shops with a paint job that matched Jons, who would buy the independant guys LF masks? Or Jay and Fred for that matter or any others. All the artists that bring the world these great masks would be out of business. Or if all the mask makers out there sold thier master copies to big companies then the only masks you would have would be thin floppy degradeable masks with crappy paint jobs..... Who wants to have thier display shelves full of that?
"respectable"? sure...
Pays the bills? Nope
I know the ball park figure that one gets paid for something like this and it wouldnt cover a months worth of my bills.
Jon could just as easily have made something like this and sold them at a \'collectors\' price and thats exactly who would have them. Its nice as a collector to have nice, \'hand\' made and painted masks. But if it wasnt for independant artists doing this then the only place you could pick up a mask would be at Wal Mart and this forum wouldnt be here. If this mask actually ended up in retail shops with a paint job that matched Jons, who would buy the independant guys LF masks? Or Jay and Fred for that matter or any others. All the artists that bring the world these great masks would be out of business. Or if all the mask makers out there sold thier master copies to big companies then the only masks you would have would be thin floppy degradeable masks with crappy paint jobs..... Who wants to have thier display shelves full of that?
"respectable"? sure...
Pays the bills? Nope
I know the ball park figure that one gets paid for something like this and it wouldnt cover a months worth of my bills.