One of the features that is on Wizard of the Coast's website that is an invaulable tool is the art galleries.
Whenever an odd monster is encountered I like to print up the artwork and paper clip it to the DM screen.
Is there any hope of something like this on Paizo's site? Especially since Pathfinder is chock full of new monsters never seen before.
Yes I know theres the pdfs I can print but Id have to white-out all the text and its a slight hassle.
The blog is kinda like an art gallery, too. Most of the Pathfinder art is in there.
You can select a single image in the pdf file, copy it and then paste it in a new file into any graphic editor (even Windows own Paint) to print without the hassle of "whiting out" the surrounding text.
Ah...Thank you :)
It has been requested several times and so far without any response. But no negative replies either. ^^
I guess if people ask for it frequently enough, it should be possible. It's not as if those picture wouldn't bee for anyone to see at the HP right now anyway. Even if they can't make all pictures available for some reason, there's sure enough of them to fill an art gallery.
Ahw man!
With the possibility of being anoying, and really not wanting to appear ungreatful (the pictures in the blog are awsome), but
"We can has Art Gallery now, pleez?" :)
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Maybe it might be possible to start with an NPC and Monster-Gallery. A Monster-Gallery would be extremely useful (as Dragnmoon already pointed out), but I'd also like to see the NPC portraits!
Hmm... it might be worth starting a wiki page indexing blog posts that have useful art (so a section for iconics and other NPCs, a section for monsters, a section for environments etc.). It would work as an interim thing until Gary is finally freed up to make a gallery (which could be a long time in coming, I really don't envy him the workload he must have).
Maybe I'll do it myself... when I have a functioning home computer (seriously, how do I have so many broken ones?) and any spare time. My lunch break isn't the ideal time to start these things.
It has been requested several times and so far without any response. But no negative replies either. ^^
Actually, the one or two times I requested something like this was answered the same way this thread was: We'd love to, but there's so much more stuff going on.
I think they need to hire a code slave to do this. Maybe rent one for a couple of weeks until all the old art is up there.
I'd really love this to happen, but I believe them when they say that they have more important things to do. I know I become quite grumpy when I don't get my regular fix of Pathfinder.
Until then, I'll get by on the PDFs and the blog (incidentally, there's a mass extraction function that extracts all pics. Do that and browse by file size. Only very old PDFs will make trouble, as they cut up the pictures in the first couple of PDFs).
(seriously, how do I have so many broken ones?)
Because you break them all?
The blog is kinda like an art gallery, too. Most of the Pathfinder art is in there.
If by "most", you mean "only a tiny fracture", you're correct. Not that there's not a lot of stuff there - it's just that between the APs, modules, Chronicles stuff and companions, there's so much art, most of it really good.
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time to time folks :) (tiampo al tiempo gente)
they will give it to us when they are able... hey it ook me about a week going down the blog andgetting all the images :P i love the art
and i understand they need to keep somethings specifically for the PDFs
as KaeYoss say... i want my Pathfinder Fix... so the blog helps... the books helps... so i prefer they finishing Absalom before January :P (snif still hopping for the book needed for his campaign)
I'd like to point out, that people are still giddily anticipating the start of an Art Gallery section. ^^
You can find MOST art on www.deviantart.com just search for pathfinder or paizo and start digging up. Some of the artist are Drew Pocza, Ben Wooten, NJoo and even Eva Widerman.
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I have to agree, an art gallery (or an awesome theatrical introduction to the world via flash) might sway many into selling their souls to the Pathfinder Campaign Setting. You guys have worked too long and hard on this setting. A few samples of your most favorite art might sell your world to quite a few people that can't see the excitement. From a desire to see Paizo flourish, I concur that an art gallery (or something grander) should take a higher priority, and certainly not 988. Sorry if I disagree, but sometimes you have to get out of gear 1 to get better traction to your next destination. This site needs to immerse people in the world you are building. Works of art in a garage (or my bookshelf) will never sell the greatness Paizo deserves, nor will it push your cause forward. I admit, the buildup WotC did for Eberron was very effective.
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however that said
is the beastiary almost almost done yet??
It's been said in THIS THREAD dedicated to the Bestiary that some people have received their shipping emails so that would be a yes, I think. It's almost done. ;)
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You can find MOST art on www.deviantart.com just search for pathfinder or paizo and start digging up. Some of the artist are Drew Pocza, Ben Wooten, NJoo and even Eva Widerman.
ALSO CHECK OUT The Wiki'S gallery has everything that is open content
I'd like to just echo my desire for an art gallery.
I don't know how much effor it is to put together, but it is a major service to a company's fans and one of the things I've always appreciated about Wizards.
Posting all the art from a book really helps out GMs and I can't imagine it costs any sales (who buys an RPG JUST for the art?).
The blogs contain only a fraction (a small fraction in most cases) of the art in the books. It's not nearly equivalent to an art gallery. It almost seems a waste to me to commission such high quality pieces and only have them in low-res PDF or print form.
Anyway, that's all I have.
Creative Director
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I'd like to just echo my desire for an art gallery.
I don't know how much effor it is to put together, but it is a major service to a company's fans and one of the things I've always appreciated about Wizards.
Posting all the art from a book really helps out GMs and I can't imagine it costs any sales (who buys an RPG JUST for the art?).
The blogs contain only a fraction (a small fraction in most cases) of the art in the books. It's not nearly equivalent to an art gallery. It almost seems a waste to me to commission such high quality pieces and only have them in low-res PDF or print form.
Anyway, that's all I have.
We've often had requests for an online art gallery, but for various reasons it's not something that we're really keen on doing... a big one being that we don't have the resources or manpower to keep something like this regularly updated, for one (we have a hard enough time keeping the blog daily, after all!).
As for buying an RPG just for art... Gamers often undervalue the importance of art in game books, I suspect. The art's EASILLY the most expensive part of a book to create—a page of art costs about ten times what a page of text costs, and we don't put text up online for free, so it's hard to wrap one's head around putting the art up for free. If we WERE to do this, we'd certainly post the art in low res format (which is what I believe WotC does for their art galleries).
In any event, I don't think that filling our print books with high-quality art is a waste at all. It's a big part of what helps our products do as well as they do.