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I can do 3D Commissions (cheap & expensive) - got advice?
13 years ago
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Commissions update:
illustration is my hobby
Please hang tight, I've got a lot of stuff going on in my life, but I'm going to get to all your stuff eventually. Everybody that has deadlines, please remind me, and I'll get them on my calendar.
3D work
My hobby is illustration, my trade, tools, and training are for 3D animation, and I want to Sell my professional side to the Furry audience. My icon here is like a Donkey Kong snes graphic, which doesn't reveal a lot about what I can do. In character motion & acting I'm capable of a rating between Pixar and Illumination Entertainment, and in every other category I'm at or above kids TV. I'm going to make my portfolio available through Youtube in the coming weeks.
I'm working toward offering Cheap 3D commissions, but before I begin...
3D Auction
I want to start off my 3D/Furry career with an auction. I'm going to create an auction (ebay, I guess... why isn't there support for sites like Furbid?) and advertise it on Furaffinity. It will be a full studio treatment character package, a value of multiple thousands of dollars, cut down in price and made affordable because of how much I've already invested, plus I'm investing resources in material I can use in future commissions. However the total commission will still be for Mid to High rollers $200 - $2000. After all, I will be putting a certain measure of professional grade work in it.
Edit: I'm not asking anybody to lay down money before I show examples. The fact is I already have examples, I just don't have my stuff online.
Please Advise
Does any good advice come to your mind as to how I should auction this stuff? Where to sell and How long should I have it open?
illustration is my hobby
Please hang tight, I've got a lot of stuff going on in my life, but I'm going to get to all your stuff eventually. Everybody that has deadlines, please remind me, and I'll get them on my calendar.
3D work
My hobby is illustration, my trade, tools, and training are for 3D animation, and I want to Sell my professional side to the Furry audience. My icon here is like a Donkey Kong snes graphic, which doesn't reveal a lot about what I can do. In character motion & acting I'm capable of a rating between Pixar and Illumination Entertainment, and in every other category I'm at or above kids TV. I'm going to make my portfolio available through Youtube in the coming weeks.
I'm working toward offering Cheap 3D commissions, but before I begin...
3D Auction
I want to start off my 3D/Furry career with an auction. I'm going to create an auction (ebay, I guess... why isn't there support for sites like Furbid?) and advertise it on Furaffinity. It will be a full studio treatment character package, a value of multiple thousands of dollars, cut down in price and made affordable because of how much I've already invested, plus I'm investing resources in material I can use in future commissions. However the total commission will still be for Mid to High rollers $200 - $2000. After all, I will be putting a certain measure of professional grade work in it.
Edit: I'm not asking anybody to lay down money before I show examples. The fact is I already have examples, I just don't have my stuff online.
Please Advise
Does any good advice come to your mind as to how I should auction this stuff? Where to sell and How long should I have it open?
take the time to create unpaid pieces, spend lots of effort on them, and then talk about professional grade after you get plenty of feedback of other people agreeing with you that it is indeed what they consider professional.
take it as an outside opinion. your icon looks nice, but it's by far nothing that shows what you're capable of. right now you're asking people to lay down hundrets of dollars for something they have no idea how it will turn out, due to lacking references.
bottom line, my advice is to scrap the auction and start with producing content instead.
Naturally a majority of bids will be for the low range so focus a lot on what you can offer in that area. Custom 3d icons like yours, short 3-5 second video clips, etc. The more you can diversify in this are the more commissioners you'll be able to attract.
A lot of us have commissioned comics or art based on our favorite life events. I think it's exciting that you're offering this style of commission because it'd be so much cooler to have some of our favorite comics turned into short videos :3
Cheers!
Especially before bidding on anything. I'd hate to bid $2000 on something that doesn't come even near my expectations from a description.
The second thing, for estimates on cost over time, figure the project out to around $45.00 an hour. or around 1000 a week. Now at my prime I could do a fully built rigged and painted game character in a week. I have slowed since then, but then shaders have gotten more complex.
The person above has a gpood point about produicing something, but in any case you need a portfolio of 3D works to show here. If you had, for example, a version of the Ninja assasin character on your front page as featured artwork, as a 3D model, rigged and ready for animation, that would be a good example to show.
Hope this helps.
Scott