DWPetros
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Thanks guys.
Personally, I'd like to share the map and have no interest in making money on it. I see this as a community thing. That said, I need to make sure that MMP's interests are kept and my relationship, past and present, works well with them as I'd like to do more work with them (which at this point is whatever design work I can do, minus painting maps - sigh). If they had no problem with it, neither would I.
My only complaint about all this is somewhat off subject - namely that HASLs aren't any longer hand-painted; the one thing I most enjoyed about being involved over all these years. I get why MMP needs to go digital, but I also think it's kind of too bad. To me, digital artwork, though precise (and I also understand the need for visual precision in ASL), isn't as interesting or as realistic looking as it can get with painting. I think this is driven by engineer-minded thinking, vs. artistic-minded thinking. Thankfully, we still have Charlie K. doing the digital artwork - the only guy who can combine engineering and artwork well here. If not for him, we'd not be in a good spot regarding the artwork. His work is far above anyone else's digital work. Yet even his work, as good as it is, still isn't in my view, as great as his painted works. Red Barricades is the best example of that.
Personally, I'd like to share the map and have no interest in making money on it. I see this as a community thing. That said, I need to make sure that MMP's interests are kept and my relationship, past and present, works well with them as I'd like to do more work with them (which at this point is whatever design work I can do, minus painting maps - sigh). If they had no problem with it, neither would I.
My only complaint about all this is somewhat off subject - namely that HASLs aren't any longer hand-painted; the one thing I most enjoyed about being involved over all these years. I get why MMP needs to go digital, but I also think it's kind of too bad. To me, digital artwork, though precise (and I also understand the need for visual precision in ASL), isn't as interesting or as realistic looking as it can get with painting. I think this is driven by engineer-minded thinking, vs. artistic-minded thinking. Thankfully, we still have Charlie K. doing the digital artwork - the only guy who can combine engineering and artwork well here. If not for him, we'd not be in a good spot regarding the artwork. His work is far above anyone else's digital work. Yet even his work, as good as it is, still isn't in my view, as great as his painted works. Red Barricades is the best example of that.