Quote - Then apply those principles ten hours a day for five to ten years and you'll be good to go :) 

Yep. Basically there is no "fast" way to make money in Poser unless you have some marketable talent. One doesn't just pick up a modelling program and churn out highly sellable models. It takes time to learn.  So far as texturing is concerned, pretty much anyone can texture once they have the basics of how to maneuver around their graphic program and figure out the texture template. But again, it takes lots of time and practice to turn out a "good" texture.

I also don't think there is much of a market for rendered poser art, at least not straight out of poser. In order to sell it you would need to do some really major post work so it doesn't look like you dressed up Barbie and pasted her on a 2D background. I'm not saying that's what you do, I'm just using that as an example of "typical" poser renders.  Now if you used Poser as a tool to get a basic form of a human and background in, and then did a great deal of post work such as what people like  Addy and Antje, ToxicAngel,  or Prog do, then you would probably have a market for some prints or even book and CD covers. Will you make 800 per month? Probably not for many years though.

You could also do what some others like OutlawbyDesign do, and that's make "Poser Tubes". Basically backgroundless images that can be used in card art or signature tags or other graphics, and charge a semi-yearly or yearly membership fee to access the content. Or sell CDs of content.  Again is it lucrative?  Probably not to the tune of $800.00.  Also there is the time required to build up a customer base. With heavy advertising you might see a number of people sign up in the first month or two, but after that it will dwindle until membership renewals come up.  And again, it's not an overnight success story either.  It will take time to get memberships, and you will also be competing with the hundreds of sites out there that offer pretty much the same stuff for free.

You could always buy a web building program like Front Page, and make web pages.  Of course you will have to make or buy websets to use. And learning Flash and Java Script would help loads to set your work apart from others who do a more simple style.  You won't earn the kind of money you are looking to make per month though. Depending on the quality of your work and the types of jobs you got, you might be able to bring in a few hundred dollars every now and again, but not consistently unless you dedicate several hours per day to doing it... like a job.

I remember you posting not too long ago about debt due to Poser buying. If you are living beyond your means right now and finding it hard to pay your monthly debts due to insufficient cash flow, you may want to consider some credit counselling and discuss what options are available to help you, be it refinancing to consolidate debt into one payment, contacting creditors to seek lower interest rates, or even bankruptcy if that is determined to be the best route.

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
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