Quote - I'm not homeless yet but i may be , or even if i don't become fully homeless.. i may end up struggling to pay for an apartment, which means i am forced to not have TV, or internet and so on. Are any of you guys struggling with rent or something...then how come you still use Poser? OR most people here using 3d apps, are semi rich? again, i'm not yet homeless but with a 12 dollar per hour job, i don't think i can even afford to eat, much less Pose. right now living wit relatives so it's different.

 

You make more than double what I bring in - and I'm supporting a child, too.

I live on freebies, I've also learned to do a LOT of things myself. I also do have a Plat. Club acct, so at most, i'm usually only picking up the 1.99 items at Daz. I buy only rarely from any other markets, and I only buy about once a month or so from Daz, as well.

It's for this reason that I don't have a lot of the 'popular' items, nor work with many figures. I work with vic3/m3 and that's about it, so i limit also how much i'm spending that way, too. I don't need to buy a set for miki, vic3, koshini, g2, teri yuki, etc... i only need for v3 or m3. I also make wide use out of procedurals, so I'm not buying a whole lot of textures, either. Many of the images I do, the textures used are either edited by me of the defaults that came with the project, or they're further enhanced via the materials room procedurals, or they're completely made by me with procedurals. All stuff that doesn't cost money.

It's about budget, when you do this sort of artwork and aren't in the top 2% income brackets. Budget how much per month you can afford to spend, and then DO NOT GO OVER IT... ever. That's all I do. I allot myself no more than $20 a month to spend on 3D models/related items. I dont' go over that limit, ever. We live on one pay check, with two adults and a 9 year old daughter (who acts like a boy LMAO, like mother like daughter :p), so we have a very strict budget, and I tend to make use of a LOT of freebies and just limit myself to $20 a month.

Seems to work for us... and we only bring in about $5.75 an hour. Though, we also don't have things like cable tv, satellite radio, etc. We don't buy dvd's, we don't buy a lot of computer related hardware, clothes are only bought when absolutely neccessary, ie something of ours is just no longer presentable or wearable, stuff like that. About the only things we really SPEND money on are rent, utilities, food, gas, phone, and the internet/ISP access. It does help.

You just have to be smart about it. shrugs Though if it came down to a choice between poser and a home? Pffth. I'd drop poser for a while and worry about the home first, thank you. This is just a hobby. It's not bringing me an income, heck I'm even lucky if I get more than 60 views on a piece of art here since I don't tend to do T&A shots, so I'm SURE not bringing in any money with this. You have to prioritize, make use of freebies, learn how to think outside the box a bit and possibly using stuff that's intended for one purpose to put it to use for a completely unrelated purpose (example : a lot of hair textures make beautiful reflection maps! Especially Kozaburo's.), keep a budget, stick to the budget, take advantage of sales, and things like plat. club that are cheap, etc... just be smart about it is all. :D

~ Seliah