admin2 opened this issue on Dec 18, 2007 · 61 posts
forester posted Wed, 19 December 2007 at 11:29 AM
Hello admin2.
This is a good first effort, but a couple of things should be commented upon.
The scene is composed reasonably well, but appears to be a little cramped - squeezed together too much. Also, for a Vue scene to be a useful commercial rpoduct, it probably should be able to support more than one point of view - more than one camera angle. Your scene appears to good for a frontal view, but might not be good for other camera views from the sides.
The bench, unless you can show differently, is a free item model that that is not supposed to be used for commercial purposes. Some of my fellow vendors are checking on the status of this bench. On TurboSquid, please be aware that we who are vendors there are very diligent in scanning for other vendors who misuse our property or who put up models for sale that do not belong to the them. On Turbosquid, the staff does not review models or scenes for copyright violations, but we who are vendors there do review these models, and we do so every day. Five or six of us regularly patrol the site for people who are dishonest. Every day, we alert the staff of copyright violations, and every day, the staff does remove questionable items from the site.
Turbosquid may not be a good site for you to broker this kind of product at this time. In general, the customers of Turbosquid are architects or people in the movie and advertising industries. They are looking for very high quality, complex models to use in their own rendering programs and the general price of such models will be about $50.00 or greater. Very few casual users or private artists purchase anything from this site. Your scene may be too simple for the Turbosquid marketplace.
Two other people have put up Vue scenes for sale on Turbosquid. Both "scenes" are quite extensive, and include various well-made models. Neither has sold in the last six months. This is not to say that Vue scenes won't find a market in the professional world over time, but not yet. Many of us Turbosquid vendors are watching the Vue scenes on Turbsquid quite carefully to determine if such a product is viable in the professional marketplace. I would guess that Vue scenes will become a commercial product during this next year, but only when they include an extensive set of original models, when they are useful for multiple purposes (and have several different viewing angles possible to them), and only when they were so time-consuming to make that purchasing them saves the purchaser a LOT of time. (In fact, most of the firms that purchase models from Turbosquid do have their own in-house model-builders. These are firms that are looking to save time - purchase of a model is cheaper than having their own people make them.)
You should be encouraged to continue with your efforts to build original scenes, that have unique and attractive qualities, and that use original models and materials. It appears to me that you have some talent at this, but you need to keep working to develop your talents further. I doubt that this particular scene will sell any copies because the people that purchase models from Turbosquid can easily make this kind of bench and stone patio, and probably, the plants as well. If you can develop your talents to the point where you can build some models that most model-builders cannot do easily, and pose them in unusual, interesting and attractive Vue scenes that save 'professionals' time and money, then you might find purchasers for your work on Turbosquid.
Respectfully, Forester