[[grim guardian]] is my favorite art in the game by far, so I want a playmat of it. I can’t find a playmat of it anywhere, even on the artist’s own website. How would I be able to get one?
Posted Nov 30, 2023, 6:18 PM UTC
You’ll have to ask the artist themselves. If they don’t do them, and aren’t willing to give you or a company permission to make one, you’re SOL of legal options.
I'm hoping Ultra Pro does a [[Mana Crypt|SPG]] mat. Dominik Mayer has done some of my favorite art and Crypt is no different.
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It was a pretty rare prize for Ixalan tournaments, I think one per participating stores raffled off?
Been looking for one myself, they fetch a pretty high price so I doubt Ultra Pro can make one since it was already a product made by WoTC.
I want the same for Propaganda. I tried reaching out to Clint Cearley and was not able to get in contact with him. I think that Ultra Pro should develop some sort of creator that allows you to do this for any magic card. I know so many people would use such a service.
The artist would have to get paid for that so that would require an enormous amount of contracts with I'm guessing a thousand plus artists. And they would have to be willing to engage in the contract too. You can't just use an artist's art for a product like that, legally.
True. I guess I’m just surprised that they haven’t stipulated that in their contracts by this point.
I believe what is illegal is making money off the artist’s work. So to me that seems like the legal quandary of the seller, not us as the buyers. And if the artist doesn’t sell their artwork in play mat form, especially if you’ve tried to reach out to them and gotten no response, then I would feel your moral quandary has been resolved as well.
If both conditions are met (it’s the seller’s legal obligation, and the buyers moral obligation, but you’ve done enough to engage the artist), then I don’t feel there is a problem with shopping around to different play mat makers with an image of the art work until you find one to print it
Sorry, but no. In the U.S. (and all major jurisdictions I am aware of), it is still copyright infringement even if you are not making money. It is up the the artist to not sell or permit printing of their artwork, they have zero legal obligation to respond to you or sell their art.
Morally ... well I'd also disagree with you there (imagine a world where artists were FORCED to sell their work!), but I doubt anything I can say would change your mind.
Source: IP attorney
WoTC could add it to their contracts, since they’re licensing the art to ultra pro, anyway.
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amazon has a easy custom playmat maker. find a nice image and make yourself a playmat.
Posting here because I really want a playmat of [[Goro-Goro and Satoru]]
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Uhm, Johannes Voss has a Patreon through which you could contact him to include that in the next kickstarter print run maybe?
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Contact a custom mat seller
You can find a sorta high resolution version of the card usually on mtgpics.com, then you could use this and put it into an image upscaler (ideally you try a few different ones), and then you find a place that makes custom playmats and upload the thing there.
I just received 2 Rebecca Guay playmats and couldn't be happier.
You could search for the Artwork in a high enough resolution, maybe put it through an upscaler if the image isn't big enough, then have it printed to a playmat. I think it cost me about 30-40€ the one time I did this.
Barring any moral qualms, also this is not legal advice; Find a 3rd party that makes playmats. Find a hi-res copy of that image, go through said company's configurator. Click buy.