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Originally Posted by Loki
QFT 100% I'm actually in the process of doing #2 and #3 as well as what I did years back getting artists together to form a type of co-op / stable the end goal is for all the remaining artists to learn the new tricks myself and 2 others uncovered to speed up the rendertimes (you would not believe the frame rate now if I told you lol)
As for still content not selling I'd deff have to disagree with you there, it might not sell for you guys but I can point you (in private sorry) to at least 3 companies totally striving with 90% photo only content.
but as you said it does work for filler content which is what I have preached for the last few years before I left in 2011.
-Loki- |
You may be right on the stills. I saw a HUGE decline in 3d still type content sales 4 years ago. Part of this was the economy, but I think a larger part of it was animated clips became easier to make. It started to become a lot easier to produce high res 3d animated clips in a much shorter of period of time. They still sucked for the most part but it looked better than stills. You also had a bunch of hobbyist on the Erotica forums who were making animations for poser. So for 100 bucks you could get some kid to setup a scene with a pre made animation and let it render for a day and then you would have a clip. You then repeat this 10 times or so and then you have the foundation for a new site for 1-2k that contain completely animated content.
My brutally honest opinion/advice. You cant keep kicking the 3d stills dead horse any longer. You should have gotten away from it 3-4 years ago or hedged by getting into another area. If it does produce income it is too small of niche to make it worth the effort since you are literally competing with 1000s of kids doing the same stuff. If you can figure out the the game situation that is your best shot. Or maybe since you know the industry well you should put yourself in a broker sort of role and team up with animators that already produce high level content and resell it for them. Best of luck to you. I wish you the best.