Steve Jackson Games Forums - View Single Post

sgtcallistan · 09-26-2006, 03:32 AM

On the subject of art for games, I find a lot of generally useful art (especially character art) can be gleaned by googling names of video games on image search; 'suikoden', 'final fantasy', 'gundam', etc. These will often reveal scads of individual bits of characer art, plus galleries of maps, designs of locations, interiros, vehicles and so on.
I'm sure it's breaking copyright to use them in a book, and probably to offer to send copies; is it illegal to post such pics as an example within a post?
If not, I'll post links to some of the many I have collected (if I can figure out how to).
What does the panel think?

09-26-2006, 03:32 AM	#50
sgtcallistan Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chatham, Kent, England	Re: Art for games On the subject of art for games, I find a lot of generally useful art (especially character art) can be gleaned by googling names of video games on image search; 'suikoden', 'final fantasy', 'gundam', etc. These will often reveal scads of individual bits of characer art, plus galleries of maps, designs of locations, interiros, vehicles and so on. I'm sure it's breaking copyright to use them in a book, and probably to offer to send copies; is it illegal to post such pics as an example within a post? If not, I'll post links to some of the many I have collected (if I can figure out how to). What does the panel think?