Copyright on portfolio

Santiago_RS

Hello everyone, I have a question about making a portfolio of 3D models.

I was doing my portfolio at Artstation and the few models I have finished are creatures, robots from movies and videogames. I made the models from scratch, but since they are characters from a movie / game I don’t know if I would have copyright problems. For example i made a 3D model of a kodiak (robot from Mechwarriors)

I simply want to use them for portfolio and not to sell them. Should I put something in the publication like “i don’t own the rights”, “all rights reserved to …” or “fan art”? and if i should, what exactly is the phrase, sentence to put so i have no inconvinients?

I tried to find information about copyright but I didn’t find it specifically to use in a portfolio and I wanted to see if anyone knows about this topic to clarify this issue.

Taylor Brown

fan art is fine. put it in the title as well as the description, it doesn't hurt.

sacboi

Derivative work falls under 'Fair Use', citing American Copyright Law:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_art
But can be a bit of a grey area in other regions.

Eric Chadwick

It's fine to not label these. A long as you're not making money directly from these models, you'll be fine. 

If they are exceptionally good then it does help to indicate to your audience that it is not an official version, but rather "fan art". 99.9% of the time though, your audience can tell that it's not an officially sanctioned movie/game asset. Partly by quality, but also context.