Quote - Oddly enough was just having this discussion over lunch.  Dirty is harder.  You need more detail in your texture maps and nodes, you need to model in some of the bigger dents and broken bits.  Flood-fill rust textures just don't make it.

It does feel like shiny and new is more attractive to the buyer, though.  Even though, to make a shiny and new object look nice, you still have to apply some fingerprints and small blemishes and so forth!  (My current set has material nodes that add a bit of dings and other noise).

If I was sure it would sell, it would be my choice to at least offer, if not design around, a more battered look.  For some things, this does seem natural; I can't see anything Old West looking like it just came off the Wells Fargo Wagon from Sears, for instance.

But I'm making some musical instruments right now, and I can't see many customers really being attracted to the dented, broken valves, duct-taped joints look.  Certainly not as a primary.  But is there really enough interest in the market to even make this sort of texturing and detail available as an alternate?

Tour the bigest 3D sites

All the main C4D,XSI,Lightwave ect ect sights,what do you see ? alot of clean cars n houses

turbosquid what do you see ? alot of clean cars n houses citys and a lot of 1//2 ass untextured charaters that would never sell.

sites like CGTalk galleries what do you see clean clean clean made with main 3D apps & Zbrush.

Zbrush gallery what do you see ? clean monsters have no idea as to why.

sites like Renderosity gallery clean clean clean every thing.

 

if you was the boss of a hollywood studio, what would you think ?

what Artist would you hire.

the artist with the 1/2 ass untextured charater for $500 ?

the Artist with the pretty ferrari probably not mapped just shaders.like the othere 10,000 ferraris

or the artist with the ugly clean monster ?

took skills to make that monster, but it's a monster where the drool n blood running from his mouth & the snot running down his nose. ?

one of the bigest sellers at  Renderosity is Aerysoul.

thay have killer origanal stuff for a female mesh you can't buy, that i will never get.

thay only sell female stuff so if ya want a sceen with a girl kool

but if ya want a dude that matches the girl ya just out of luck , huh.

sad that one of the best artist around does not complete the sceen.

 

alot of mechants make a killer orginal out fit for a girl but none for any dudes out fit so ya can't use it in a full sceen.

any movie i ever saw every frame was a complet sceen.

 

 

people that buy merchandise think just like a boss from a hollywood studio.

cause there the boss of there own home grown renders.

that's more important then any thing hollywood ever spit out.

 

merchents have it ruff i know

thay bust there buts to make stuff that thay may never make a penny on.

the ones spending there time selling frys with big macks, at least ya know thay got to eat.

 

what ever you do , do it all the way.

what would ya do with just a guater ?

ya need every thing you see at a concert all of it from the coliseam to the stage ,lights over head,insterments amps,preformers ect ect

all the way to the croweds with the lighters burning in the air to the braws n panties flying on stage.

 

if ya going to make a monster have him blody n drolling with a 1/2 tourn apart corps at his feet.

 

what ever you do ,do it well

if it's top qualaty it will not be ignored.

 

what ever you do , be original and most of all be real.

 

 

completed top qualaty orgianail scenes.

these are the Artist that have earned respect.

thay have the right to set at the table with the Masters.

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