It's quite difficult to learn modeling, and not everyone has the time to learn it or to make all their own models - it can take weeks to get one just the way you want it. Also, in the 3d art world there are actually 2 art forms involved: Modelling, and setting up and rendering a scene (there'a also a third one, postwork, but that's a whole nother argument). Some people excel at both, some are good at one but not the other. My modelling skills are mediocre at best. Sometimes when I just want to get into a render, I prefer to buy a pre-made model to use. I do make some of my own items, but sometimes there is a pre-made model that is exactly what I wanted, and is either free or for sale at a low price and rather than make one myself, it's faster to buy that one. Also a lot of people do 3d art for money and when you're working on a deadline you don't always have time to make all your own models. Every professional )and serious hobbyist, for that matter) that I know has accumulated a collection of pre-built models, characters, etc for just that reason

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Jeff

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