From: ph111-dz@violet.berkeley.edu (david mou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: posters and cels
Date: 13 Sep 1992 00:08:03 GMT
Organization: a.b., s3x3, m.j., c.n.
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu


First thing first.  After a year on the death bed, it's now official:
davmou@ocf.berkeley.edu is dead.  If you have mails going to that address,
then you may have to resend them again (to the newer addresses in my .sig).
From now on I'd have to ftp ocf like the rest of you.  "..kanashimi ni 
sai yo na ra...."


People have written me asking about Rick Alonso and Mayhem Studios.  Basically,
the man is to anime cels like Nikaku is to anime/manga products, here in U.S.
He knows people in anime studios, and he can get quality cels fast and cheap.
Moreover, he's very friendly.  Give him a call at 213 399-1539, and he would 
either tell you, fax you, or even mail you the selections he has.  Most of his
stuffs are under $100, which are being sold for $200 or more elsewhere, and
many come with backgrounds and/or pencil sketches.  The 500+ cels he has now 
range from Gundam (any), BGC, Video Girl, Silent Mobius, Dirty Pair, Sol Bianca
to Cream Lemon, and old shows from Speed Racer, Gotchaman, Candy Candy ....
The guy is in Japan now, and when he comes back by the 16th he's bringing cels
from Lodoss Wars, Vampire Hunter D, and Macross movie.....  Just thought you 
want to know.  (Albert is going to kill me now.)


And some people asked me what is Cel Network.  Well, it's a garage operation
by Vance Hu, whom some of you might remember from AX92.  That man is a cel 
maker, and with 6 years of experience he's very good at what he's doing.  His 
larger pieces sold easily for $200-$400 in AX, but for studio size acetates
his fee would still be 1/2 or less of what you pay for a nice original.  Where-
as original studio cels are assembly-line mass-produced items, a typical CN
cel takes hours to make.  If you want a cheaper and yet better looking cel, 
give Vance Hu a call at 714 895-8570.  And contrary to popular belief, Vance 
can do original artwork as well, (just takes him longer to come up with a 
pencil test, hence more $$).  Provide him with an image or a description, and
he can make something that's satisfaction guaranteed.

The reason why I bring Cel Network up is because some of the Lodoss cels Rick's
bringing back runs upwards to $1.5k, and some cels Rick have aren't even for
sale (Vision in BGC for example).  Vance knows Rick, so you might as well.. :-)


Which finally brings me to The Poster.  Many of you might have heard, but 
probably haven't seen, the Char's Counter Attack poster Cel Network cranked out
for SDComicCon.  In short, it's a full size poster of mobile suits in action,
surrounded by pitch black boarder.  The poster was printed on 79 pound paper
with 6 plates (blue, yellow, black, double red, and varnish), which makes it
museum quality.  The sheer color is pretty amazing, and the artwork itself 
isn't bad either (good enough to have Tomino sign on the original).  Elton
of Laser Perception liked it enough to pay cash for 10 of them during SDCon,
which made my day there.  If you like to get one, please contact Nikaku and
ASK for the Gundam poster (the one with black borders).  Nikaku, for reason
I won't elaborate here, does not list this poster in their mail catalogs ^_^;;.
The poster is on display in Nikaku, however.

[What else can I say.  It looks good, and you'll just have to take my words 
for it.  Those of you who've seen it, you may SPEAK UP now!]

Anyway, if I don't already sound blatantly commerical, if you are interested in
obtaining these posters in quantity, please contact me by email, and we can 
arrange for the transactions.  Favors, trades, and clubs would be taken into 
consideration.  Preliminary pricing is (including shipping in U.S.) $15 for 
the first two, and $6 for every additional one.  Suggested retail is $15, and
we sold nearly 100 at that price in SDCon (Elton managed to sell the free 
sample I gave him for $20 to some poor dude there!)  If you have additional 
questions or comments, please reply by email.


messages from bundai.co.jp will be promptly ignored.....

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