EldritchCellar posted at 12:01PM Tue, 13 October 2015 - #4233534

Sorry, don't have time to whip up renders unless it's something specific to one of my own projects atm. My offer to help with bjd in the future stands, however.

Darkseal's manga doll is not a bjd, it's a very westernized anime style figure, not articulated like a doll. I have manga doll and his cherry for nearme.

I think we are referring to different products. Actually his BallJointed Doll (which I think is relatively new) is supposed to be a Ball jointed figure judging from the shoulders showing in the product sample (though why he chose just a CU of the head instead of showing some full body renders to market it is way beyond me). That is one thing I have never gotten over in all the years i have seen products offered in the community. It is hard enough to make the products but if you do NOT include good renders in the product promos showing the best features of the figure, clothes, hair or whatever, you are ROBBING YOURSELF out of sales potential.

Aside from having been a photographer/illustrator/graphic designer, I have a background in art direction and marketing which I humbly feel qualifies me in some way to talk about this. I can't say how damn important it is to properly show products in their best lights to increase sales. Content providers swallow the mule in creating their product and choke up on the tail in marketing. Also, would be best to properly/intelligently offering add-on stuff later supporting the product with more content alternatives. This is especially important for independent/stand-alone figures. I used to buy these and regretted it because they were always plain and never supported in the community or shamelessly by the artist themselves. Those few stand-alone figures that endured had that following and support even if just from the original creator.

Anyway, sorry for the tirade. Just a grit in my craw i need to hack up! Thanks for your responses.

Some artists get so damn belligerent refusing to see the value in that mind set when I bring it up I want to run screaming off a cliff!!!. Frustrates the hell out of me. I really don't give a sheitz if they make a bundle of money or not (which as an artist of sorts myself, I think they should) but i do care when I purchase a product that does not have what I had to guess it did only to find out after i have purchased it, it falls short of even the basic points/expectations, I feel like killing them for false advertising. Luckily lately sites like DAZ offer a complete money back guarantee and i am pretty sure RDNA as well as Renderosity do as well. But it is still a real hassle.