I wasn't sure where to post this since it isn't a deal, but to help avoid any future headaches with any limited editorial license for you fine people, I think it's worth it.
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The page for the bundle has been deleted. People on Facebook were speculating that Paramount contacted them.
Yeah it's interesting that Lucasfilm hasn't bothered, but Paramount did...
I'm kind of hoping that whomever buys out Shari Redstone's shares of Paramount (Sony maybe, looks like Skydance may be out of the running) gets their head out of their asses and embraces fan efforts more/takes a page out of the Star Wars fandom book.
Yes, Paramount does have fan film guidelines, but also has a history of beating up films that look 'too good' and uneven enforcement, aka the Axanar fan film saga...
This is the fan film that instigated Paramount finally issuing fan film guidelines:
In this case, Gary Graham (RIP) reprised his role as Soval, and a couple of other Star Trek alums were also cast in this fan film, and the SFX looked great, which bothered Paramount to no end... the next film installment (which is cut down from the original plan to a 15 minute episode per the settlement) should finally be released later this year. Axanar filming is in the can, and it's in post production atm. It will probably be the last time that we will see Gary as Soval. But I digress.
In this case (the fan art add ons), someone WAS making money off of the Star Trek IP by offering the IP related assets for sale, these (not the base assets, just the fan art addons) should probably have been released for free. But of course, one only needs to look at RenderHub and such to see people selling IP related stuff. Heck, Thanos was pulled from Renderosity, reworked slightly and then offered for sale again.
Of course, the 'usual suspects' have made said sci-fi fan art bundle available by other means, but that falls outside of the scope of this thread, as this particular thread is about acquiring/purchasing assets legally.
But back to Paramount being assholes, yeah I think the Star Wars fan film/art/etc. community is a bit more accepting these days.
As for Nintendo, yeah they can be ruthless when enforcing their IPs...
BTW, for the Vader fans...