Official limited Tomb Raider screenprints and giclees now live!

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Originally Posted by Treehouse_Ryan

We're selling the giclee in the store, but as was talked about elsewhere, the original plan was to have them be exclusive to the art shows and do a litho on the store a little later. This means we have one of each, printed off the same art....




Jed (our CEO) liked the giclee better. Chris (our head artist) liked the litho better. I was kind of torn.




The litho has better saturation, I think, but the blacks are darker/better on the giclee.




The overall fidelity of the giclee strikes me as being a bit finer.







The litho is full-bleed and has a glossier finish to the paper (and is signed), but the giclee is undeniably nice. You guys were clamoring for the giclee, so I'm guessing we made the right choice, ultimately, but I'm not totally sure....

Originally Posted by Treehouse_Ryan

The Spratt lithos are signed, but we don't know what we're doing with them now. The Spratt giclees are not signed, but will be numbered (out of 120 for NY and SF).

We would never intentionally reprint the same piece of art or do a follow-up edition. We've released some Mass Effect lithos in small, unnumbered versions so as to be distinct from their limited counterparts, and we did a color variant of the Claptrap screenprint (which I totally stand behind as a valid release).

The reason this happened is because the lithos were printed (and signed) almost a year ago. The art show where the giclees were to be sold never happened, so we put them online and sat on the lithos. I guess someone decided it had been long enough and the format was different enough from the original so as to be a distinct thing (sort of like the way the first Fallout and Skyrim lithos got re-used for the metal prints, but obviously less expensively different...).

I'm not thrilled at how this was handled, but I understand the need to recoup the money spent on the lithos, and there has been a lot of demand for that art since it sold out so quickly. There is no way anyone will be able to see each of these and not know them apart from each other, so they are still distinctly different pieces. I don't know if that's enough of a difference to really get behind this move, but that's the whole story.