Boris Simiano Teases More Of His HeroQuest Project!
January 8, 2017 by brennon
You might remember that towards the end of last year we showed off that Boris Simiano is working on a diorama for Kickstarter based on the cover artwork for HeroQuest. Well, now he's moving onto the villains!
This evil fellow you might remember from the artwork standing on the steps as the heroes are fighting off waves of enemies all around them. He still retains his classic look but with a bit of a modern update. He even has his arms raised up in the air casting a spell!
I always saw this fellow as Skeletor and he would most certainly be painted up in purple and blue.
What do you think of this project?
"He still retains his classic look but with a bit of a modern update. He even has his arms raised up in the air casting a spell!"
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I have to have! 🙂
This might be the first Kickstarter I back on my own.
These are lovely but I can’t help but wonder if there is a c&d coming at some point.
nice details.
If he is copying art he might be okay (?) – Some old original Warhammer/40k commissioned art gets sold on ebay by the artist.
http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/original-art-part-5-fangorns-epic.html
Heroquest is generic fantasy (?) Except Firmir which are inspired by Irish myth, so by rights GW should be paying me royalties 🙂
@grimcrazy
There’s an accepted practice of allowing artists that work or have worked for a company to sell commissions based on the company’s IP. It’s very common practice in the comic book industry. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t copyright infringement, as Gary Friedrich found out when Marvel sued him for doing it and he settled out of court.*
You are right to say that generic fantasy cannot be copyrighted. You can’t stop me doing a fantasy dwarf or barbarian just because you did one before me. You can stop me copying your exact dwarf or barbarian, even into another medium. If you couldn’t, then you could recast fantasy dwarves and barbarians with impunity. Equally, you can’t copyright WW2 infantry, but try and sell recasts of Bolt Action minis or use the artwork from the rulebook and see what happens. Copyright protects you only for the parts of your work which are original. So you cannot stop me sculpting WW2 infantry as there is nothing about WW2 infantry which is original to your sculpt, but you can stop me recasting your sculpt because that itself is original to you. That the works transfers from sculpt to art makes no difference.
*You might be wondering why Marvel would sue when it’s a common practice and lots of other people do it and Marvel don’t sue. It’s because when the Ghost Rider movie was made, Friedrich sued Marvel claiming ownership of the character (he didn’t own it), and Marvel counter-sued him. They wouldn’t have bothered otherwise. That they’d let him do it for years and let countless other people do it and keep doing it to this day made no difference to their right to enforce their copyright whenever they wanted.
Interesting stuff…
Museums charge publishers for photographs of artefacts – but you can own the copyright if you can sneak your own photo or draw the artefact yourself 🙂
GW must own the Chaos warrior design including the helmet horns – unless there is a period of history I know nothing about (!) (?)
I was amazed by the concept sketches in the recent GW apocrypha books. I thought I was looking at Jes Goodwin sketches from 2016 and the actual date was 1990!
I think some of the Heroquest art would look awesome modelled in 2017 using modern techniques 🙂