kathym opened this issue on Dec 14, 2005 ยท 58 posts
Jim Burton posted Wed, 14 December 2005 at 7:09 PM
I'd guess if you were to commission something like the Zygote figures from Zygote they would cost you something like $50 hour for modeling x 12 weeks of work x 40 hours/week, or $24,000. For that money you would own the figures, Zygote would retain no rights, they would be yours to seell or modify or do whatever you want. I'm under the impression that the Zygote figures aren't as nicely modeled as Vickie 3, but pretty complete. So, on that basis charging $14,000 for the use of the existing figures seems a little over the top, maybe it is just a starting place for bidding on them, or something. However, I'd say the $24,000 figure is about ballpark, an less experenced modeler might sell his time cheaper (a lot cheaper, mayber), but they would also take longer. I'd also say you would have to at least double that for number if you included a minimal morph package and textures, Poser rigged. So, if you sold 1000 copies of this about $50 (total, you could do a $25 figure with $15 morphs and $10 textures or whatever) would be about the right price. Only I don't know if anybody other than DAZ can sell 1000 copies of a figure for $50...