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As a seller (and 3D artist in general) what is your least favorite task ?
Discussion started by hend-z
Hey guys,
I'm curious, do you have a task that you really don't like doing? I'm pretty sure, UV mapping is not fun for many artist, but I do enjoy it personally. What I don't like doing as a seller is all the product preparation (rendering thumbnails, renaming, exporting etc). And as a 3d artist in general, I HATE rigging.
What about you?
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Good thread! Love modeling - especially hard surface. UVW Unwrapping is a nightmare come true though. Would have loved to work with a texture artist. I find that setting up multiple cameras in the "batch render" dialog in max takes the pain out of the "prep for upload" process. I typically set up 3 cameras in Batch. run them through while i do something else. then just tick my "shape and edges material override on and run the same Batch setup, 3 visuals, 3 wireframes, no sweat.
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Hi
I like modeling most but it all depends on the software really. If I cant get good results immediately I look for something else to do the job. Most of my software is really easy to use so I can make most things from start to finish in a few hours but that's on the back of struggling for yeas with the wrong tools. I hate trying to unpack UV's and paint the unwrapped maps.
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I wrote a whole article on this topic. https://www.cgtrader.com/forum/topics/being-pioneers-sometimes-really-pays-off
What we need to do is convince CGT to create revenue sharing options so that artists can collaborate and just work on what they are best at. Not only is revenue sharing good for the improvement of the quality of the models and reduces stress to the artists that do not like doing a particular part of the process but it also be used in other ways.
If you have the revenue sharing option you can team up with people who like preparing models for publishing and who are great at putting in the relevant information know how to price models properly etc...
Another way revenue sharing works is you can team up with sales people. You can offer them a cut of your earnings and they can be actively selling your models to clients knowing that they will automatically get paid each time your model sells.
I mean... revenue sharing is a no brainer but we have to pull together as artists if we want CGT to implement it.
I have been telling people about this for years but you see nothing happens unless a large group of artists agree that this idea makes sense and that it benefits us all.
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@marvimation
The idea look good on paper, but don't you think it make stealing models more frequent? I mean unless you work with people that you know very well, what keep someone, from taking a product that I made, and gave it to him to render, for example, and sell it as his own on another website?
Not really considering the fact that too many people are giving away free models on here anyway. When you give out a model to someone who is going to help at least it is still worth more to you than just giving it out for free.
Not sure if what I am saying makes sense but from personal experience every artist I have worked with on this kind of project never stole my models. On the other hand whenever I posted out my models for free for everyone to just download then my models got stolen. The artists who sell on CGT as far as I know are trustworthy people but the free loaders who come onto the site and don't sell and just download stuff are devious crooks and have stolen or modified my models and re sold them.
Another thing to think about is when you do revenue sharing you share only one model at a time with one or two people, (artists or sales people of your choosing) that makes it super easy to know if someone stole your property which in my experience is not likely to happen.
If they do try to do something like stealing you already know they are responsible for it so it is easy to report it unlike when you just put up a model for free and 10000 people download it. In that case... good luck finding out who stole it right?
I have been doing the revenue sharing with a few artists I met on CGT or met previous to working at CGT and it really works. The problem with it not being part of the CGT options is that you need to manually pay your co workers using paypal every time you make a sale. For that reason a lot of times I just opted for letting them also sell the model we worked on together on their account.
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Thank you guys for your answers, at first I didn't like UV mapping either, I use Maya and the tools available in it, are pretty limited. but then I started using Headus UVLayout and it completely changed my perspective. For those of you who never tried it, you should definitely try it, especially for organic models.
Yes you are right dude! Uv mapping sometimes is boring but if well planned can be useful for anything and organic models are affected by that so much.
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