Cels Forum

> First of all, What's the deal with all these EVA
> reproduction cels?

The serie of 12 "laser-copies" and 6 hand-painted ?
They are the _only_ official reproduction cels available
from Eva. Copyright GAINAX/Project Eva, as writen on
them.

> comes up with a story and character design.  But tons of 
> different people animate the series, drawing and painting
> the sketches and cels. 
> If someone that used to draw Rei in Eva draws a
> pic of her just to sell, that's probably not legal, even 
> though they drew another one and it sold legitamately. 
> [...]
> Does this seem a little odd to anyone?

Err... I worked for comanies writing software. I can't
just go ahead and use the tools/work that the companies
if worked for did to write now my own software.
When you are employee of a company, all the works you
are doing belong to that company and not to you. It's
not because I fully developed some programs that they
belong to me. Same with an animation : it's not because
someone worked for a studio, painting cels that he has
the right to paint cels for himself and sell them.

Cheers,
Yann Stettler