mix_mash opened this issue on Feb 09, 2009 · 68 posts
Morkonan posted Wed, 11 February 2009 at 11:53 PM
Quote - Does anyyone else feel like they take too long when they make Poser products for the marketplace?
I put alot of work into my products (even though it may not look like it) and the process is slow. I was thinking of releasing simpler and cheaper products but I don't want to disappoint in the quality department.
Does anyone else have this issue or at least feel like that?
It takes as long as it takes....
People work at different speeds and have different priorities. As some have noted, very few people actually sell products for Poser as their primary source of income. For the ones that do, they generally have built up a very good stable of products with decent residual sales and can afford the time it takes to create new and excellent products using their longtime experience as a Poser crafter.
I muck around with creating lots of things that work in Poser. I can create a decent piece of clothing, mapped, grouped, rigged and tweaked a bit in fairly short order. As a matter of fact, the quickest and least troublesome part of the entire process is creating the mesh and everything up until the point where it's time for fine tuning, morphs, testing and packaging (If I was going to distributed it.) Those latter stages take many times longer than just getting the mesh into Poser, rigged and working, for me. And texturing? Meh.. I can dump a texture onto something like anyone but.. for it to be "good" takes a bit of work. All in all, I have a tremendous amount of respect for the knowledge necessary to fine-tune .cr2s, pz files and materials/nodes after having started mucking around with creating things for Poser. There's much more than meets the eye, that's for sure. To do it "right" takes a great deal of experience and intimate knowledge of Poser.
IMO, and I hope everyone understands where I'm coming from, I wouldn't be upset if some producers took a bit more time on their products. I do understand the need for cold, hard, cash.. everyone needs it. So, desperate times call for desperate measures and sometimes, it just has to go out the door to the marketplace. But, if any producer can spend that extra few hours or days tweaking their product, they should. There is a cornucopia of mediocre items out there in Poserland and they far outnumber the ones of higher quality. If there was less of a desparity of quality between the two, customers would be a lot more comfortable with making impulse purchases and trying new producer's wares.