EXPOSÉ Store is online

[Rotamus]

WOW WOW WOW
looks great i really want this book but i dont have a CC
Leonard is there any other way of getting this book being from australia ... any stores ? i need this book :)

[l7d]

im off shopping
:wavey:

[ANTIFAN]

Absolutely beautiful - the printing process, particularly the matt/shiny finishes sound sublime.

I am VERY please to be a part of this book.

Best,
Gary.

[marko-p]

being as impatient as i am does anyone know how long it will take to be delivered ?

[Soulstorm]

is there gonna be some link collection to every image shown in expose, for the ones that either dont have the money, or live in countries that isnt included in the shipping list for expose?

[CGmonkey]

IIIIIIIK.. :bowdown: :)

[Roman]

I did a pre-order 2,5 weeks ago. And now I got this update mail. Does this mean I have to give up my payment info by preordering again? Or do I still have to wait for that?

[Bjolletts]

I did a pre-order 2,5 weeks ago. And now I got this update mail. Does this mean I have to give up my payment info by preordering again? Or do I still have to wait for that?

I second that question.

It will be an awesome book for sure ...

[Leonard]

Originally posted by Bjolletts
I second that question.

It will be an awesome book for sure ...

Hey guys, yes all you need to do is to go through the ordering process again. We made this decision based on the fact that too many people who reserved their copies were emailing in asking us to cancel their reservations as they wanted to buy the Limited Edition instead!

Hope that makes sense. We won't be following up with people who reserved their copies past the email that I just sent.

Best,

Leonard

[thx1138]

But is it still pre-order ? Or it is actually gonna ship right away if I order here ? And if not, what's the estimate on the shipping date ?

Looks so cool. Just can't wait anymore :bounce:

-Grtz

[Vandal]

Ship date - end of July

[Meaty]

what is the country code for the united states for the phone number? (i usually dont call here from outside the country) :)

[Vandal]

It's 1 for Canada and the US

[thx1138]

Originally posted by Vandal
Ship date - end of July
Arghhhh!!! :annoyed:
I'll be in the US by then for about 4,5 weeks.......so I'll have to wait even longer.....
Oh well....:p

[Meaty]

Originally posted by Vandal
It's 1 for Canada and the US

thanks amigo

[onlooker]

Just put my order in.

[ilasolomon]

wow
and how about the 'Artist Special Edition' order ? :beer:

[Leonard]

Originally posted by ila_solomon
wow
and how about the 'Artist Special Edition' order ? :beer:

All you artists needn't worry! If you got in the book - you DEFINITELY have a limited edition reserved for you.

Cheers

Leo

[ClaudeBernier]

How can I know what the shipping cost will be? I'm in canada if that mathers...

[ilasolomon]

:) :wavey:
How can we order / get / pay the Artist Editon? any special order page or that regular one works for this? just confused! :p
THANX Leo

[majestic]

i think there's supposed to be another email saying where to get the 'artist' edition.

[ac617]

will i be able to buy it in any local bookstore??

[phobos]

Leonard or Mark do you know in how much time we can order the artists special edition book? 2-3 days or more? I'm afraid that I'm gonna miss it somehow. Anyway good work and forgive my impatience...

[PokeChop]

Chock one more shipped. I just ordered mine.

Oh, the wait is killin me...

[lildragon]

Originally posted by phobos
Leonard or Mark do you know in how much time we can order the artists special edition book? 2-3 days or more? I'm afraid that I'm gonna miss it somehow. Anyway good work and forgive my impatience...

We have 999 copies available for pre-order so there hasn't been any timestamp on when you can get them.

-lild

[road]

Originally posted by ila_solomon
How can we order / get / pay the Artist Editon? any special order page or that regular one works for this? just confused!
THANX Leo

uh what he said...

[headengine]

Looks totally fantastic - even though I can't afford it right now, I've just ordered the leatherbound Limited Ed - now don't tell my wife!

:D

Can't wait, roll on July when it ships!

[no9]

Hey, this might have been asked before hand, but I just read briefly over the topic. Do I need to reorder for indication?

I did get an e-mail telling that the book was reserved for me around the same time I ordered it (5-6 weeks ago), but I didn't get another...maybe I'm just confused.

I do however; have another household member who shares the e-mail account. I may need to ask them if they received an e-mail from you at a later date, and removed it.

[Hellbring]

just ordered a limited edition I think I am # 784 of 999

[mr3dguy]

I just got limited edition #916
They are going pretty quick.
Im just glad I finally got out of bed this morning

[simc23]

Hi,

I am an artist from a Hong Kong CG production company. Your book is so great that many people of my company wants to own one. I would like to buy around 10 to 20 softcover edition of the book, but we found that the shipping cost of 3 editions is the same. The shipping and handeling cost is around 1/3 of the cost which seems not very reasonable.
.:shrug:

I would like to know:
1. Why the shipping cost is the same for all 3 edition?
2. Is there any other shipping method which is cheaper?
3. Howcome I don't find any discount using the order web form?


Thanks for your attention

[JDex]

Bah, no paypal option...

Oh well, count me out I guess...

[MarkSnoswell]

Originally posted by simc23
Hi,

I am an artist from a Hong Kong CG production company. Your book is so great that many people of my company wants to own one. I would like to buy around 10 to 20 softcover edition of the book, but we found that the shipping cost of 3 editions is the same. The shipping and handeling cost is around 1/3 of the cost which seems not very reasonable.
.:shrug:

I would like to know:
1. Why the shipping cost is the same for all 3 edition?
2. Is there any other shipping method which is cheaper?
3. Howcome I don't find any discount using the order web form?


Thanks for your attention

The web page with bulk discounts is online at http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/discounts.html

The shipping is the same for all editions as they all weigh about the same -- 1 Kg.

We have to pay the same shipping UNLESS we can get over 20Kg or 40Kg to one address. The Soft Cover book weighs 840g so if you can find more people in Hong Kong to make up the numbers to 47 then we can get a *much* better shipping rate -- or we can still get a good rate for 20 Kg which is 25 books.

Please email Helen directly to organize this order and the exact shipping rate helen@cgCharacter.com


This goes for anyone else too -- if you can get 25 or more books together on one order to one address then contact us directly for the shipping rates and the discount.

[phobos]

Hello mark and leonard. Leonard you didn't understand my question. I have received an email that stated that I can get a special edition of the book cause I'm in. And it stated that I will be contacted later for the specifics on how to order this book. Well I haven't received any mail!!! So how long is it going to take to build this page? Or is it set up and I haven't received any mail??

Thanks

[Dj Petro]

Because of my tight personal budget I was wondering if my Credit Card will be charged now since I just ordered or when it is time to ship the product?

Thanks for all the quick responses to our questions.

_

[MarkSnoswell]

All transactions are processed immediatley -- and are held as a full price deposit which is fully refundable untill the orders ship at which time the sale is complete.

At time of shipping we will email the recipent with confirmation of shipment and tracking information for the shipment -- so you can track it yourself on-line.

[Leonard]

Originally posted by phobos
Hello mark and leonard. Leonard you didn't understand my question. I have received an email that stated that I can get a special edition of the book cause I'm in. And it stated that I will be contacted later for the specifics on how to order this book. Well I haven't received any mail!!! So how long is it going to take to build this page? Or is it set up and I haven't received any mail??

Thanks

Phobos - please don't worry man. We're working on it and all artists will be notified! PLEASE!!!

Leonard

[phobos]

Leonard I have a .mac email address and many times I had problems receiving emails. That's why I'm being so impatient cause I didn't knew if it was you who haven't sent the emails or the stupid provider. (In that case apple....)
Thanks again and hope you guys have some rest :)

[MarkSnoswell]

just a little explanation of why it's taken a while to get emails out to artists...

It's compicated! ... thats why. There are 360 or so images in the book ... but only about 230 "artists". Now you would think that we should just allocate one book per artist -- wrong. Some of those 260 "artists" are actually corporate entries where two or more artists worked on one image. So our dilema is what to do? ... as usual we leaned on the generous side and decided that no "artist" should miss out. We havn't been able to get the accurate list of all contributing "artists" untill late today when we finished the index in the book -- and we are all at crash point with exhaustion. THe artists order page and email is being prepared as I type this .... just hang in there.

[Leonard]

Hi all,

The artist edition of EXPOSÉ for artists who got in the book is ready for ordering and all artists have been notified by email on the secure webpage - if you did not receive this email, please email me immediately. leonard@ballisticpublishing.com

Thanks

Leo

[Teckniel]

just would like to say very nice book i orderd yesterday the limited edition

hope a new book comes out soon

and 2 quastions how come the limited edition is that cheap and could i order a poster ??? cause there such nice renders in it

frendly regards teckniel

[MarkSnoswell]

The Limited Edition is very cheap for what it is for two reasons:

1. We are selling it directly -- usually most of cost of a book goes to the middlemen who distribute and sell it. By selling diretly we cut those costs out.

2. We're not greedy -- In fact the Limited Edition should really have started up at th AUS $149 price it will be at after July1st -- if there are any left! We thought "what the heck" so it's a bit cheap -- for this first issue lets give people something special... and we hope that everyone that gets a Limited Eddition will show it off to everyone they can and ancourage everyone to go on line and buy a copy for themselves !!


Posters:
Yea -- we want to select some images for promotional pasters and banners -- and whatever else makes good sense. But there are no firm plans yet -- we are just concentrating on getting the book through the printers and tout to everyone. ... perhaps once the book is out we can have some "readers votes" on what images you think are best and you would like to se in posters -- whatever works for everyone.

[mister conehead]

I do not have a credit card. Will the book be in stores in future? And will it also be in stores in Europe or the netherlands than?

[MarkSnoswell]

Starting next week we are having a big push to sign up bookstores and other resellers around the world. We will list the resellers on the web site as soon as we can.

[mister conehead]

Great! :thumbsup:

Oh, I can't wait till it's in stores :bounce: :bounce:

[MarkSnoswell]

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
Ok you have to allow us on smiley abuse

Everything is going so well and we will start to get colour proofs from the printer this week

[sebek27]

i pre-ordered last month or so, but the email said someone would contact me.. do i wait since i didn't give my credit card info, or do i have to go to the site and order again with my credit card ??

[Leonard]

Yes - please do that. An email was sent out last week to everyone that reserved their copies to go order their copies online. All the previous pre-registrations were discarded as the majority of people decided to change their orders to the limited edition after seeing its true value.

Thanks

Leonard

Originally posted by sebek27
i pre-ordered last month or so, but the email said someone would contact me.. do i wait since i didn't give my credit card info, or do i have to go to the site and order again with my credit card ??

[Dj Petro]

I ordered my book and I was told it would be charged immediately and held as a deposit. I checked my account and I haven't been charged for the book. So I am wondering if I should worry about that or just wait and see if it goes through soon.

_

[Baal]

Ordered my Limited Editions a few days ago... can't wait 'till end of July ! This book simply rock !

A huge "Thank you" goes to Leonard Teo and Mark Snoswell for making this possible ! Two thumps up ! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[RobertoOrtiz]

Any chance that any of the bookstores in SIGGRAPH will have copies of the book in stock?

It would be awesome for some of the cgtalkers that got published to be able to show their published work to their peers.

-Roberto

[Bliz]

The book looks well worth buying. Just wondering though, did the issue with the Hyun Kyuongup picture being very heavily influenced by someone else's compositional work get resolved?

http://ocad.syste.ms/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1158

Does the guy who did the original picture get a credit of some sort?

[MarkSnoswell]

Bunch of answers:

Credit Card transactions go through immediatly. It shoul appear on your account in the next reporting period for your card. You can get up to 55 days credit free depending on your bank and the timing of the transaction.


SIGGRAPH -- we will have books with us to show people... and there will be books in transit and just delivered to people by the time SIGGRAPH starts. Unfortunatly there was just no time to get books to SIGGRAPH in bulk for sale in the book stars. Next year there will be -- in fact we are looking at having our own stand next year :)

Blitz: We immediatly rectified (did not include) the only potential copyright infringment image we were informed about. There were a number of images that were also automatically disqualified as they were clearly in potential violation of copyright of current major films and actors. It appears that many younger artists aren't aware that almost exact replication of a copyrighted work is deemed to be an infringment of the original copyright.
We have not heard of any other potential issues -- including the one you note. It's not possible fo us (the editors) to do anything unless someone informs us!... and we would need credible information from the the artist claiming a copyright credit. The entry forms require artists to attest that they are,and to corectly credit, the copyright holders.
By the time the book goes to print there will be a listing of all images (with thumbnails of images) and details on the web. If there are any copyright issues or changes in information that we are told about they will *immediatly* be updated on the web.

[BiTMAP]

bah i read some of that linked post about the "swipe" it actualy sickens me. They just rudely ripped at CGtalk for absolutly no reason, lucky someone else came in and said something. The fact that you guys don't say something out right isn't nessarly saying that you havn't done anything, and to say that you are imbarressed is a joke!

blah! people people! Why did he not post in the original thread when he noticed the similarities?!

[ShakingColor]

Thanks a lot !!

But it's so much more regret that I cann't buy it , 'cause I live out side of the U.S.

[Leonard]

Originally posted by ShakingColor
Thanks a lot !!

But it's so much more regret that I cann't buy it , 'cause I live out side of the U.S.

What's the problem? The book is produced in Australia, waaaay outside the US.

Leonard

[Claudio72]

I've payed the book and the expedition fees. I haven't received any confirmation via email, is this right??

[Seven]

I bought the Special Edition book and I when I pre-ordered I went through the payment process on the web site etc etc and have screen grabs of every screen including the 'You have successfully paied' etc.

However the email I recieved just says I have pre-oredered it (shouldnt it say I have bought it ?), it says nothing about me paying for it and giving me a reciept.

My email says I pre-oredered number 167 at the cost of 119 dollars but normally when I buy items online I get an email with my credit card details.. shipping address etc.

Have I paied or not :) hehe

Sev

[Claudio72]

we are in the same situation Seven!!

[Leonard]

No that's not right. You're supposed to get two emails. One from Ballistic and one from ANZ eGate saying that the credit card transaction went through. Please email info@ballisticpublishing.com with the email confirmation that you did get. I will attend to it tomorrow when I'm in the office.

Thanks

Leonard

Originally posted by Seven
I bought the Special Edition book and I when I pre-ordered I went through the payment process on the web site etc etc and have screen grabs of every screen including the 'You have successfully paied' etc.

However the email I recieved just says I have pre-oredered it (shouldnt it say I have bought it ?), it says nothing about me paying for it and giving me a reciept.

My email says I pre-oredered number 167 at the cost of 119 dollars but normally when I buy items online I get an email with my credit card details.. shipping address etc.

Have I paied or not :) hehe

Sev

[MarkSnoswell]

Pre-Order language clarification & Bulk Shipping.

AH -- let me explain about the language used as it's important to correct accounting. A pre-order indicates that a transaction is in progress -- the transaction is completed when the item is shipped. Untill it's shipped it's a pre-order with a deposit (fully paid) on the sale. If that's confusing don't worry -- it's all got to do with correct accounting and us not getting a huge tax bill before we have shipped the books! We'll start sending confirmation emails to everyone next next week and then from then on as orders come in -- with order details and planned shipping dates. That will also be an opportunity to issue the actual numbers assigned to Limited Edition sales -- the order numbers people saw are agregate order numbers from our system that includes all editions. Everything is working very smoothly :) -- although there is a lot to organize! ... so just bear with as as everything rolls out!

As of late this afternoon I also have exact figures for bulk shipments and we will start sending out information to all those people who have requested bulk shipments and reseller info (bookstores and dealers).

[MarkSnoswell]

LOL ... Leonard and I are both posting responses at the same time :) ... both correct with different parts of the answers.

So. I'll take this opportunity to say some more on shipping.
Today we finalized an agreement with FedEx for shipping globally. We already knew shipping rates pretty well and so this doesn't have any effect on orders you have already placed. It does mean that we have the exact bulk shipping rates now and so we will start ramping up the direct bulk orders and the list of resellers who want to handle the books.
All books will be individually shrink wrapped -- so even in bulk orders thy cant get scuffed rubbing against each other (we gota prevent all that rubbing up against each other on long trips or they will breed and we'll get lots of little booklets by the time they arive -- oh that was a bad joke -- time to get some sleep). All shipments will also be insured and people will get emailed shipping tracking information as soon as their books ship -- so everyone can track their books on-line.
... anyway. lots more information as time goes on. We will update the web site with lots of new information and email eveyone whith orders with updated information on shipping etc. as soon as we can.

[mr3dguy]

Im wondering if I can pre-order any little booklets :D
:wavey: Maybe something I can keep in my pocket so Im never without awsome cg artwork again!!!
:p

[MarkSnoswell]

Originally posted by mr3dguy
Im wondering if I can pre-order any little booklets :D
Maybe something I can keep in my pocket so Im never without awsome cg artwork again!!!


oh I love that... someone out there with a sick twisted sense of humor ;)

on a serious note though we are contemplating doing some posters -- don't know when or what of yet ... if anyone has suggstions just let us know -- posters or whatever.

[erilaz]

Posters would be amazing... but what to do? There are so many good artworks...

How about a poster for every image?:p

[JayCMiller]

sick twisted sense of humor

really? I like the idea of a pocket insperator.:) *spelling?*

[mr3dguy]

Id buy a pocket insperator.
but then again you could probably sell me a can of dog food if it had a cool name.

:wavey:

[TurboBean]

if I am reading the ballisticpublishing site correctly, there will only be 999 limited edition copies?

What happens to those of us who ordered a limited edition and the charge went through but the edition number (or order number ) is way higher than 999?

If it is approved does that mean we will get one or does the order number not really relate to the amount of copies available?

I see on the homepage that it mentions 234 copies left.

[Leonard]

Originally posted by TurboBean
if I am reading the ballisticpublishing site correctly, there will only be 999 limited edition copies?

What happens to those of us who ordered a limited edition and the charge went through but the edition number (or order number ) is way higher than 999?

If it is approved does that mean we will get one or does the order number not really relate to the amount of copies available?

Hey TurboBean,

The order number does NOT correspond with the limited edition number. Here's how it works

PREFIX
limited_
soft_
hard_

SUFFIX
1
2
3
...

Cheers

Leo

[TurboBean]

thx Leonard :)

(in that case, I guess I have one on the way :) )

[Pent]

oooh, ahhhh.

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