We have a new key that will be available for pre-order on Friday Nov. 7th beginning at 11am PST on CharacterKey.com.  Designed by Peter Ferk, (who has done lots of our keys, Leia, Moff Tarkin, Boba Fett…) we now have the Dark Lord of the Sith - Darth Vader.  Go to CharacterKey.com to see a bigger image and for more info.

Also we hope to have Jedi Mickey available for pre-order in the next couple weeks so keep an eye out for that announcement.

Congratulations to Acme Artist Christian Waggoner on his sale of the originals, “Vader” and “Boba”.

and also Congratulatoins on the buyers!!

As I am sure you all can agree, those are absolutely fantastic works of art and anyone would be lucky to have the original paintings.  And they were freaking HUGE!

-James

We’ve got some cool new stuff.  First off, there’s a Jack Skellington Character Key that is now available to order:

Next we have a new Sleepy Hollow pix-cel (sense our Halloween theme here?) called Ichabod’s Wild Night.  This piece is only available to order through midnight on Halloween and however many orders we get, that’s the edition number.

And last but not least - STAR WARS!  We’ve got a new piece by Christian Waggoner called “Boba Fett” and a new piece by Grant Searcey called “Raiding Fort Tusken.”

Boba Fett available in three sizes:
25 piece 30″ x 30″ canvas edition signed and embellished by artist
95 piece 18″ x 18″ canvas edition signed by artist
195 piece paper 13″ x 19″ edition

Raiding Fort Tusken available in two sizes:
95 piece canvas 20″ x 30″ edition signed by artist
195 piece paper 13″ x 19″ edition

If you are like me and like video games, than you  are probably already aware that today the new Star Wars: Force Unleashed video game came out.  I am very excited to play this…. like very!!!

ok James settle down, breathe…..1,2,3,4

Ok I am back everyone, anyway we here at Acme got a chance to peep the concept art for the game a little bit ago and just flipped at how awesome it was.  We are were so excited about it we went into immediate production and are releasing 3 brand new limited editions based on the concept art from the game

…and here they are:

Apprentice Crashes a Star Destroyer

Vader Knights Apprentice

Vader on Kashyyyk

Signed by Artist Amy Beth Christenson

Well it has been a while since my last post, let’s catch everyone up to date on what’s been going on since Comic Con.

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well that didn’t take long, goodnight everybody…..

…..Ok I kid, I kid.

As always a lot has been going on over here.

We are very excited about a brand new product we are releasing from artist Christian Waggoner.  Our friends over at Galactic Binder helped us out with a pretty cool reveal of the product.

Thank you all for participating, we you hope you had fun- and congratulations to the winner.

This piece will be featured in October’s Star Wars Insider, so keep an eye out for the ad as well as its release on the website- if the sales on Christian’s Vader piece are any indication, this piece should go fast.  I have seen it in person and it looks absolutely incredible.  Unfortunately the Original has already been snatched up by George, but I think the prints are going to look equally as impressive.

And Christian is not stopping there, he is already working on his third installment of super awesome reflection paintings, I’m not going to give away any more details.  But I will say I have seen the preliminaries, and just plain WOW.

We are also going to release a new piece from artist Grant Searcey featuring a scene from Tatooine.  I won’t give out the characters yet - but he just delivered it yesterday and that one is definitely going up in my house as soon as the prints start rolling out.  Keep checking our sites for updates.

In more Star Wars product related news, make sure an check out our new The Clone Wars products up on our site (and on Star Wars Shop), the new Anakin and Ashoka pix-cel is pretty dang cool.  It has a great 3D look calling back to classic animation.

Also make sure and check out our new C3PO sketchplate up at Characterkey.com.

In other, non Star Wars related news, we are currently working on our second installment of the very popular Family Guy Artist Series.  We will be having our opening show mid October, and then releasing prints just after.  The art has already started to stream in, and in two words, it is Hill Arious (ok I made that up). It will feature art from the minds of Grant Searcey, Joe Vaux, Pete McKee, Domini Polcino, Mark Covell, Mark McHaley, Picasso, a blind chimp with a spray can, and two snails covered in glitter.

Well I guess that’s it for now, more to come I promise.

Jimmy OneSmith

aka

James your blogger

*UPDATE* We have a winner - congratulations!

The winning ticket for the Character Key set is #562172.  If you have the winning ticket, please send in the ticket as well as a photocopy of your Comic Con badge.  Our mailing address is:  Acme Archives, 7575 San Fernando Road, Burbank, CA 91505.  Please email us (infoATacmearchives.com) and let us know that you are the winner and when you have shipped the items to us.

**if we do not get contacted by the winner by August 15th, we will default to the second ticket drawn and will post the information here**

(The Halo raffle also took place and the winner has already picked up the piece.)

We are premiering 2 new Halo pieces at Comic Con this year: The Art of Halo ($125) and At All Cost ($89).  For those of you not attending, they will be available on the Acme Direct site sometime next week.

Real quick update with images of our new C-3PO sketchplate and the Family Guy lithograph called Something, Something, Something Darkside..

See you at Comic Con!

Well I guess technically there are still 5 more full days until Preview Night, but being that we are shipping out on Monday.  This will be my last post until after the Con.

Soooo, some informative things….

Our Booth number is #5429, and we are located in the same place as always, in back and straight on till morning.

We will not be selling (or giving you your pre-ordered) Yoda CKs untill Saturday.  I know, I know, it stinks- but don’t blame us.  Blame the fat cats up at Lucasfilm, we are not allowed to sell or distribute any new Clone Wars products until the 26th.  But don’t worry, anyone who pre-ordered their key will get it one way or another.  And those of you who didn’t and are planning on picking it up at the show, we will take care of you too (so as long as we don’t sell out).

Now some fun news:

As I mentioned before (in some other post that I can’t remember), we will be doing 2 giveaways this year:

The first is for an incredibly framed Halo “Boarding” Giclee on Canvas.  This piece is also the very first piece in the edition- that’s right #1.  Anybody who purchases a Halo product from us will receive 1 raffle ticket per item purchased, at the end of the show we will select one number at random, and bam you are the winner.  Don’t worry if you won’t be there Sunday, we will post the winning number on our site and ship it out to you if you happen to have the ticket- JUST DON’T LOSE THE TICKET, we will need you to give it to us or send it in.

The second is also equally as cool.  We will be giving away the COMPLETE SET of our first CLONE WARS CHARACTER KEY LINE!! That’s right all 16 keys, everyone from Yoda to Roron.  Anybody who purchases any character key (does not need to be Star Wars, and does include the exclusive) at the show will receive one raffle ticket for every key purchased.  And once again at the end of the show we will select one number at random, and bam you are the winner.  And also once again don’t worry if you won’t be there Sunday, we will post the winning number on our site and ship it out to you.

Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy , American Dad) will be signing at our booth on Friday.

Matt Groening (creator of Futurama, The Simpsons) will be signing at our booth on Saturday.

Artists Eric Tan (If Adventure has a Name…, Wall E prints, Ratatouille, Incredibles) , Sam Fout (Mos Eisley Wise Guys, The Don, Vaders Angeles, Dark Lord Rising), and Peter Ferk (Original Trilogy Character Keys, Indiana Jones Character Keys)  will also be signing at our booth over the course of the show.

Sorry I don’t have times and dates for you now, but we will have a banner up at our booth so come check it out.

Speaking of Pete Ferk, we are going to have for sale some really cool Character Key stuff.  We have put together an Artist series of Character Keys that Pete worked, where as we have paired up his ORIGINAL drawing for the key with an Artist Proof of the key itself.  Check out an image of what one will look like.

This picture does not do it justice, I saw them and they kick massive booty.  We will have one for every key he worked on (Slave Leia, Tarkin, Sandtrooper, TIE Pilot, Han Solo, Obi Wan, Boba Fett, Indiana Jones).  There is only ONE of these for each character.  They are framed really cool in a 2 inch deep shadow box with each piece on a pedestal.  They will retail between $495 and $595.

We will have a new sketchplate!!!! I know long time in the making, but it will be there and it will make a great companion piece to your McQuarrie R2.

And last bit of cool new product news that I will be releasing today, we will have a new Family Guy Star Wars Lithograph.  The special is still about a year out, but we have received permission to sell this Litho at the show (and only at the show) until the Special airs in about a year.  I have seen the Litho and I will tell you now, it is freakin’ sweet.

Like always we are going to have A TON of new products and new prototypes at the show  (Check out our new The Clone Wars line, it’s going to be cool, as well as our newly created Light Saber REVEALED prototype that we worked on in conjunction with the boys over at EFX), so much stuff that I could write about it all night.  But I won’t.  So you will just have to come to the show and check it all out.

Although I will add in one last thing, we will have an artwork wall with the some of our artists’ originals so you can see how our limiteds measure up to the real thing and for you moneybags out there, they will be for sale.

That is all for me on this lovely Friday afternoon.  If you see me at the Con, please don’t be afraid to say hi.

Your humble Blogger,

James

FYI

This is neither Morly, or your humble blogger James.

This is Louis and Rob, and if you see them at the booth (check nametags) please make fun of them.

And yes one of the helmets is the new EFX Stormtrooper helmet - jealous?

Final post before the con coming at you tomorrow.

-James