Moss' Tees: Street Fighter pg3

Moss

Now that I've finished university for the year I can get back to some actual work. I'll post tee updates and wips in this thread.

WiP - Triforce tee



I'm thinking gold foil on a dark green tee.

Tweaked_Bat_

I think... I think I'd buy that shirt... I'm a pretty big Zelda fan though :P

Kewop Decam

It looks more like a piece of the triforce than the actual triforce. I think you should add items where I put the red circles so it looks more like the triforce.

Iruka

I think....the gray one in the corner is obvious "WIP, this space will be filled when its done."

I just hope/wish you could find more individual and unique objects to fill it and not rely on too much repetition.

srsizzy

Are you just relying on one game for the objects? Because there's masks and stuff, and I don't know anything about Twilight Princess. Oh, and the little rat bomb things.

@ Kewop Decam: What Iruka said.

Moss

I'm not going to rely on repetition. I'll definitely have enough stuff to fill it with.

Rye

I need to know: is there any sort of legal trouble you can get into for selling these? I mean, does the copyright not cover the items in the game?

OR does this fall under artist reproduction of things, making you the new owner of the art? I know you've been doing this for a while, so I'd love to hear the actual explanation.

teamquiggan

I would purchase this shirt, in a heartbeat.
You need to put the shovel in there!

fightinfilipino

double clawshots and the ball n' chain for a little TP flavor.

put in Ooccaa in there and i will love you forever

bread of wonder

Put in some Windwaker love. Grappling hook + sail. Can't forget the magic rod from Link's Awakening either. Oh and Roc's feather/cape. Can't forget the Megaton Hammer from OOT either.

I think I remember just about every item from every Zelda game. I'm a goddamn Zelda nerd.
I'd buy this.

teamquiggan

I see you have the Koriki shield and the Hylean shield, if you put the Mirror shield, will it be the cresent moon or the face?
Also you should have the bracelets and mitts.

oh, and Bottles, the most important of link's arsenal, after the sword.

tmccool

you need to include some classic Zelda pots, skull/megaton hammer, treasure map,

HugmasterGeneral

Here's an idea. What about instead of random icons scattered all over the place, make the Courage triforce items and weapons, the Wisdom triforce recurring characters in small form (Maron/Taron, Link, Zelda, etc), And recurring enemies as Power triforce.

Just a thought.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

I deman more Darkworld Teleporter Mirror!

Moss

I want to post updates, but my Powerbook AC adapter burnt out and I can't get at the file.

Moss

Progress:

NightDragon

Rye wrote: »

I need to know: is there any sort of legal trouble you can get into for selling these? I mean, does the copyright not cover the items in the game?

OR does this fall under artist reproduction of things, making you the new owner of the art? I know you've been doing this for a while, so I'd love to hear the actual explanation.

I was wondering this myself, and I always thought you needed some sort of permission from the company before you could sell any of the work. I think this is why Threadless doesn't allow it unless it's parody - parodies are copyright-protection-free, from what I recall. You can't sell something that's got the "Superman" logo on it without permission, but you can sell it if it's a parody and says "E" in the middle or something.

I'm pretty sure that that rule applies to this, so I'd like to get a more "in-depth" explanation too...I don't really know how all this works!

Moss

I'm not sure of the technicalities, but as long as you lean toward homage and parody rather than outright copyright infringment you'll be ok. For example, my Bauer Power and Nintendo Family Tree designs have not been problematic for Nerdyshirts.

For this tee, as long as I don't use the words Zelda, Triforce or have a big picture of Link copied out of the game manual, I'll be fine.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Moss wrote: »

For this tee, as long as I don't use the words Zelda, Triforce or have a big picture of Link copied out of the game manual, I'll be fine.

Well there go all of my suggestions

Kewop Decam

I think it's a cool shirt. I wouldn't buy it, but I think lots of people would

srsizzy

I like it, and I'm sorry to say this, but if you put it in Hot Topic you'd sell thousands. Just because Hot Topic has a lot of stores and some people that go in there buy stuff that has anything that has anything Zelda related on it. It's a really original idea, and I know a lot of people who would wear it.

NightDragon

Moss wrote: »

I'm not sure of the technicalities, but as long as you lean toward homage and parody rather than outright copyright infringment you'll be ok. For example, my Bauer Power and Nintendo Family Tree designs have not been problematic for Nerdyshirts.

For this tee, as long as I don't use the words Zelda, Triforce or have a big picture of Link copied out of the game manual, I'll be fine.

Huh, I didn't know that "homage" fit in there. I thought that even images would get you in trouble - like you couldn't draw a picture of Mario and sell it. This T-shirt is a bit less specific - i.e. no picture of Link...but that's interesting, regardless. Learn somethin' every day, ya do! In regards to the design itself, I like it muchly, and I already know somebody who'd totally buy it. :P

bread of wonder

I thought Hot Topic attracted the sesame street and marilyn manson crowd.

Anyhow, I'm definitely buying this. Give a heads-up when it's done and for sale.

Moss

earthwormadam

Yowza. The gold on green just sealed the deal. That's a fine looking shirt my friend.

edit - and looking at your website, I had no idea you designed that transformer shirt. Saw it on Guerilla Mask a while ago.

The LittleMan In The Boat

OMG, I WANT ONE! WANT WANT WAAAAANNNTT!

Moss

I'm in the process of setting up a nerdy t-shirt company with the guy who runs Funkrush. I noticed that there are a lot of nerdy shirt stores on the web, but none of them produce anything that good. Some have nice ideas, but most are badly executed. We want to sell shirts for the fashion conscious nerd.

earthwormadam

That is hands down the best Tshirt site I've ever seen. It's right up my alley.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

There is no Darkworld Mirror--shirt fails I'm afraid =/

ZeeBeeKay

ohman, your shirt designs are made of win and love.
Slightly OT, but any idea when the 'yet we survive' shirt from your website will be available?

srsizzy

I might just have to buy this for my friend for his birthday (if I remember). Sweet stuff Moss.

Godfather

I'd buy that shirt if you managed to squeeze in Majora's mask in there somewhere.

HugmasterGeneral

Godfather wrote: »

I'd buy that shirt if you managed to squeeze in Majora's mask in there somewhere.

That's actually a good idea for a shirt -- one with a picture of every mask from Majora's Mask on it. That would kick so much ass, you'd probably go blind.

Godfather

rfilyaw wrote: »

Godfather wrote: »

I'd buy that shirt if you managed to squeeze in Majora's mask in there somewhere.

That's actually a good idea for a shirt -- one with a picture of every mask from Majora's Mask on it. That would kick so much ass, you'd probably go blind.

Good thinking.

Maybe he could make the special transformation masks different colors from the other masks; green for the deku scrub, red for the goron, and blue for the zora one. Maybe even put each mask in their respective triforce piece, I dunno.

Oh, and i'd kill if you could also do the same treatment for the Fierce Deity mask. It's like the coolest Zelda lore that everybody completely ignores.

HugmasterGeneral

Here we go. I cooked up a little something simple.. not nearly the amount of time Moss puts in his, but that's where he comes in. ^o^

What's funny is the number of masks. There's 21 lesser masks, (which is 7x3) with 3 major masks. It's like some Euclidean shit.



I like the solid colors he uses, though. They're a lot more spiffy than actual game images.

Edit: (Gotta add the image, dumbass)

bread of wonder

I dunno, I was disappointed by Majora's Mask when it came out. I still beat it, but pretty much every Zelda game ever made beats it (with the exception of those horrible titles that were on the Phillips CD-i).

HugmasterGeneral

bread of wonder wrote: »

I dunno, I was disappointed by Majora's Mask when it came out. I still beat it, but pretty much every Zelda game ever made beats it (with the exception of those horrible titles that were on the Phillips CD-i).

Speaking of disappointing.. Twilight Princess. I thought the graphics were stunning for a gamecube game, but it had well under half the play time and replay value of its predecessors. What sucks is I'm seeing that pattern among other popular game franchises. Dawn of Mana is another example of a great series going down a bad road. It takes all of 10 hours to beat if you hurry.. 15+ if you take your time. FFXII is amazing, though. Makes me wonder how rushed Dawn of Mana was...

Godfather

bread of wonder wrote: »

I dunno, I was disappointed by Majora's Mask when it came out. I still beat it, but pretty much every Zelda game ever made beats it (with the exception of those horrible titles that were on the Phillips CD-i).

Are you serious?

That game was fantastic man. Was a lot darker than most zelda games, and they did one hell of a job with the side characters. It seemed like every NPC had an interesting backstory to it, something lacking in most games out there (including other Zelda games).

I just think it got a poor reception compared to the other Zeldas because it had the fate of following up the megaton bomb that was Ocarina.

Also, Stone Tower Temple was THE best Zelda temple ever.


EDIT: I think the number one problem with Twilight Princess was that it just didn't feel like a Zelda game. It felt more like a tribute to every other Zelda game out there, without establishing itself as it's own property. Also, it didn't really feel very epic, because it seemed that you knew every area before you even got to it. That and there was really nothing to do in that game; a big ol' world with a whole lot of nothing, with every area feeling like the last.

That prison/asylum was aces though, as well as that skeleton-dino boss. Wish they had more moments like that.

Moss

Sorry to break up your Zelda discussion, but I've tweaked it a little:

DMAC

Looks good Moss.

multimoog

Hey, Moss, a friend of mine bought your Cerberus tee. I was all like, hey, I know that shirt. So you're doing okay when someone just randomly picks your items.