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Cerberus Royalty Free Clip Art Pack $19.99
Publisher: Cerberus Illustration
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by Peter I. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 12/20/2007 10:51:10

Cerberus Royalty Free Clip Art Pack is a 44 page collection of clip art images from artist Joe Calkins and Cerberus Illustrations. This product contains over 175 fantasy and science fiction clip art images of black-and-white art that are entirely royalty free and hence ready to use. This product contains a handful of images with nudity, and hence is only suitable for appropriate users.

The product comes as a large 60 MB download in pdf format that contains all the images of this product within a single file. A cover is provided that highlights the images contained in the product, but the remaining 43 pages of the product contain only the clip art images. No introductory text is provided, although the nature of the product is fairly self-explanatory. It would've been useful, though to get complete clarification on the 'royalty free' aspects, particularly regarding mofifying images, for example. Images within the product are all 300 dpi, and each page contains roughly 4 or 5 images, taking up about a quarter of a page in size per image. In addition to the clip art images, the product also contains 6 background or border pages reflecting the fantasy/science fiction theme.

Picking up such a large collection of images is generally like opening presents in Christmas day - you just don't know what you're going to get. Some of the art could be horrible and some could be fantastic, or the product could be something right out of your worst nightmares. I have to say that in this instance, the fantastic art on the product cover and previews does the product justice as it contains a great selection of artwork in a variety of different styles. Images range from the downright cartoony, to high quality shaded images that look fantastic. Others are just simple pencil drawings, but overall there's a great variety of interesting and even more importantly useful images in this product. DMs looking for good handouts or publishers looking for art can't go wrong with this product. Given that all the art in the product is from a single artist, despite the large variety of styles, the images can generate a sense of sameness. I don't think this matters much from a publisher's point of view though, or even for a DM looking for art as handouts.

The images themselves cover fantasy and science fiction, although the former gains vastly more coverage than the latter. In addition, by far the majority of the images are not scenery, but people, faces, and creatures with the odd symbol or scenic moment thrown in. The images aren't organised in any particular fashion, meaning that you're going to have to look for something you're after by scanning the entire product, but that gives you a general overview of the scope and quality of the product as well. I wasn't particularly fond of some of the styles, although I know this can be very subjective. Some of the art uses a style where shading looks very blurry, and the sharp lines or outlines of an object or creature are mixed into the blur of the image. This makes the entire image look a little out of focus. Overall, though, most of the work is of a very high quality.

Art in the industry can be expensive, so this product has created a good collection of royalty free artwork that can be used by players, DMs and publishers alike. I was impressed by the quality and quantity of the images, although there are some eye-sores in there (thankfully, few), but the organisation makes it a little more difficult to make the best of this product. For the price though (at ~12 cents per image), you get excellent value and even if you don't appreciate some of the art, there are still scores of other images to choose from. This is a handy, vivid collection of art that has great value and utility.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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