Yeh, i have two of MJ's sculpts, and love em.
But their pic is very much like MJ's painted sculpt, with the contrast turned up.
But their pic is very much like MJ's painted sculpt, with the contrast turned up.
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Just had a gander and it looks like a different painter. Doesn't look any smaller though.
Just had a gander and it looks like a different painter. Doesn't look any smaller though.
F...!Is it true?Some bustard have recasted our unique MJ sculpt?Please say it s bad joke!Who is this Kit Chen?!
Trust me there will be a huge difference between the cast of the original as opposed to the recast of an already casted sculpt. Most have air bubbles and lose definition. The recasters still bother me but the way I look at it is I love having the original artwork from the artist. Just like buying a printed copy of a painting or having the original. I'd rather support the artist and have a high quality cast. It's a shame cause when situations like this happens it pushes a lot of sculptors away from public releases
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Lol we can go round and round with this like it's been done a million times. But mass produced prices will always differ from a one man show. An artist can't charge $250 for a figure he's spent months sculpting parts on and getting clothes tailored for. There's just no money in it for him/her.
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Most people don't care about artists, they only want the work and will justify taking it, just like music theft.
I think we can all agree that sculpting requires a lot of skill and time. But like xeroxing the Mona Lisa, recasting requires no skill and no time.
Artists (in theory) should be paid for their skill and time, right?
If your attitude is "well that's how it goes" and "if you don't like your art work being stolen then don't make art", surprise, you are a big part of the problem. But you likely don't care about that either, as long as you get what you want for cheap.
I think we can all agree that sculpting requires a lot of skill and time. But like xeroxing the Mona Lisa, recasting requires no skill and no time.
Artists (in theory) should be paid for their skill and time, right?
If your attitude is "well that's how it goes" and "if you don't like your art work being stolen then don't make art", surprise, you are a big part of the problem. But you likely don't care about that either, as long as you get what you want for cheap.
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Rainman sculpts are not recasted cause he releases as many as you want every year and also at a fair price! 130 bucks a piece! I think when sculpts reach this price point of 250-500 - a massive target audience is lost by the artist! Which these ******** recasters capitalize on!
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Thanks to everyone who supported MJ in this project. It's people like YOU that keep the talented artists around creating these sculpts and enriching our collections with awesome artwork.
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Don't accuse Kit of anything. He is just a seller. You'll see those heads pop up everywhere. Kit, like Headplay and others are just sellers, so yeah, they'll sell anything that sells. Kit has his own production chain, and he works with legitimate sculptors like Eleven, and he is a great guy, a reliable seller. but he is a seller, you can't hold that against him!
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If the sculptor was doing this purely for 'arts sake', he'd have made a single piece and allowed people to look at it like in a gallery. Let's not lose sight of the fact that he was charging $250(!) for what turned out to be a beautiful, but miscaled, mass produced item. Don't kid yourself that money wasn't a driving force in this endeavour.
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money has and will always be a driving force in these boards....I mean...those same artists ask the general population what they should sculpt or what project they think will sell...I would be more for the argument of saying its art if the particular artist makes whoever he wants to make but when you open that door to let someone or a specific group dictate what your next piece will be...part of the artist template is lost and is replaced with research and development...which is usually attached to a form of business....
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Wow. is that the actual head you're getting or is that MJ's? I doubt it will look like that when all the bootleg supporters get theirs- I wonder if MJ has seen these-this is some BS
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Of course he did it for money, sales are what drives anything offered on this forum. $250 was the price charged. Like it or not, those people you are calling crazy for paying the price are the reason the sculpt exists on the market in the first place, for the recaster to recast and offer to people like you for $40. You're welcome.
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Wow. is that the actual head you're getting or is that MJ's? I doubt it will look like that when all the bootleg supporters get theirs- I wonder if MJ has seen these-this is some BS
Those are the photos hey are using to sell the recast sculpt I highly doubt it will be even close to that .
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Yup.
Let's take another artist for example that sells their work to make a living, could be any but let's look at Jeff Koons who makes sculpture. His work is not based off an actor or entertainment property so there's no argument there. One of his balloon dog statues, of which he's made many, sold for $54 million dollars in 2013. Does he deserve to have his hard work stolen and reproduced because the price is too high for the average collector to afford? Of course not. Should he have to make many pieces at lower price point instead of a few at a higher price just because there is market demand for his work? Of course not.
And what has happened? Of course people in China are stealing his work and making cheap, $6,000, knock offs. There will always be those scummy people out there trying to make money off of someone else's hard work, skill and ideas. Those people and those that support them are the problem. They like the work but don't give a damn about the person that made it, and in many bizarre cases have contempt for the person who made the thing they love. This manifests in them complaining about the price charged, perceived imperfections in the art product, personal attacks or just good old fashioned envy. Their own entitled desires are the only things they care about.
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Er, thanks, then.
It's not that I don't care about the artist , their endeavour or their work, I just think that charging $250 for a single head is a piss-take. That's just my opinion and my choice not to pay what I believe to be a ridiculous price.
By charging these scandalous prices, they're actually helping create the market for the re-casters to operate in.
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