An Offer For You, as an Artist

Dear D.Artist,

this offers refers to you, as to other D. Artists who wish to:
- candidate their images to my offer
- develop a new image to submit for this offer (Very appreciated!)

I have a project, I'm developing a free game that will be released in April-May 2013.
This game will probably reach thousands of people in a few months and many more in a few years.

In the first phase, I grant you Credits and website address reference on any image of yours.
When it will turn commercial, you will also earn an annual income, calculated in a percentage.

Do you want your image, with your credits (name and website), to be in this game since its very start?

The contract provides you that:
- in the first phase of the game, it is free, and I grant you visibility granting credits and web reference to you.
- in the second phase it is released on the market, so it turns commercial, and I also grant you an annual income..

This way, I legally bind myself to pay you an annual percentage of the income, and will always grant your credits and web reference address.

No strings attached, and you will check it in the contract you will receive if you accept to submit your images to this offer.

If you want to, write in a message to me your email address, and I'll contact you with the contract form to fill and send back (of course you keep a copy of it).

The contracts will be mass-sent when the selection of artists and images is full.

Among my favourites you may see which images I would like.



1) The form you will receive (if you accept my offer, please send your email in a note message)___________________________

The form you will receive will regard:

a) your allowance to license the free usage of your image in the game to me, until the game is free and it's considered in the Start-Up phase,
b) your allowance for Commercial use in the second phase of the game development, to grant you a percentage on the income from a potential future commercial use of the game.

It is a legal contract, so you have to print it, sign it, and send it back to me. Keep a copy of it for you of course.

My lawyer is taking care of it, so please be patient if my explanation is not exact, but the concept is here and I hope it's clear enough.


2) The Percentage you will earn after the Start-up phase of the game________________________________________________

This percentage will be granted for any artist that joined, and it's calculated by the following formula:

A = Total income from commercial use of the game in a year (365 days from its beginning as commercial use, according to the beginning of the 2nd phase)
B = Expenses for game maintenance, (web servers, production of game updates, digital and eventually material distribution, promotion, translation).
C = Number of Artists that contributed to the game used for commercial use
D = Number of images of that Artist in the game used for commercial use

X = result of the income of an Artist for an image of his/her own, used for commercial use in the game, calculated each year.
Y = result of the income of an Artist for more than 1 image of his/her own, used for commercial use in the game, for that specific year.

(A - B) / C = X.

If this Artist has given more than 1 image in the game used for commercial use, his earning is equal to Y.

Y = X * D.

So, X is the earning for who gave just one image, Y is the earning for who gave ore than one, calculated for that year.

Both X and Y grant an annual income, directly proportional to the used images, and reversely proportional to the number of artists (but of course if there will be more Artists it will be because the game will have expanded, and so there will be more Total income for everyone, and expenses are fastly reduced by digital solutions also after game updates).


Example 1 - (in this examples units are €uros, computed on an annual basis):

(200,000  - 50,000)  /   500  =  300€
  Total     Expenses    Artists  Income for each image this year
  income
 in a year

Example 2 - Let's say expenses are more:

200,000 - 150,000 / 500 = 100€

Example 3 - Let's say if incomes are less (but also expenses are, I'm not stupid), but you gave 3 images that had been used:

50,000 - 5,000 / 500 = 90€             But you gave 3 images, so...   90 * 3 = 270€ this year


I guess this (although very basic example, to be easily understandable) is not bad at all, for your images, you, and your pocket.

Don't you think?


3) The Deviant Artists that joined and are pending to receive the form for 1 image or more are actually:_____________________

Aditiya-IR
Alexlinde
alla-holod
Antryg-a-Silicon-Sky
Beaverskin
conzpiracy
daremaker
DarrenClarke
dourdan
Flavio 77
foxYanimeY
hotrod5
IncyVortex
jamajurabaev
Leonwoon
LukeDenby
Magdaitiro
MamonnA
mansarali
markofthedead
Morgan.Skye
Nagrobek
NG02
nigelhimself
Oo-voodoochild-oo
Otherunicorn
Pirkleations
ProlificPen
Saki-chan195
Sisus1
Stengchen
swirekster
t2100ex9
wchild
Whaleosaur
ZerberuZ
ZNZtazmanijus


I wish to thank you all for your trust, and please help to make this list longer.

So I can mass-send the form and shortening the time of work