Photopium opened this issue on Feb 14, 2009 · 60 posts
momodot posted Wed, 18 February 2009 at 1:41 AM
I am just sick of not finding plausible styles since the standard P4 hair and Kozoburo... I will pay big dollar for realistic everyday style hair but unfortunately when they do occasionally surface they are often over priced and poorly textured... I end up having to re-do all the texture and transmaps myself on a $20 hair! Why can't people today match the skill of Kozoburo circa 2000. Low overhead and excellent quality.
Personally I am sick of hearing how I owe merchants a living and talk about merchants recouping their "investment". Want to get minimum wage? Work at McDonalds, Want to earn more? Sell your digital work to the commercial market. You can earn more than you can with a year's income with a Poser "top seller" product in only a few hours work on a properly negotiated and liscenced commercial job. It is like the people who get thier work hung at the local cafe expecting to be "properly compensated" for four years art school tuition and number of hours spent on the canvas!
It is quite telling that the best work going in the RMP by the most tallented artists sells for six or seven dollars per piece on average and rarely over $9. These people realize it is about tallent and love of craft and maybe earning some beer money through volume sales... if you need to make your rent don't imagine it is due you for the many months you spent making your run of the mill Poser product! The best work in Poser content is by people not in it for the money... by and large they make the most money and don't see their stuff in Clearance either. There are reasons Walmart sells lots and lots of cheap clothes as opposed to shooting for one big piece of bespoke couture a day... Poser is the hobby discount market of CGI, if you are a 'professional' you would not be selling retail anyway unless just as a way to get the store to carry the overhead of distributing your cool thing to the unwashed masses.