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Yes, valid point... But for those of us who model professionally on a daily basis, uploading these models that we are already getting paid to make 9-5, we might as well generate passive income with the sales of our work. It's a bonus.

They just thefting double the price from what we sell!

I'll give it some thought and maybe come up with something

​@@grabbitt Hi, I'm sorry to ask here, 5 months later, but is there a video on the topic now ?

You can use cheap Steam version of SP for texturing and you don't need to sell your house or give it for rent to somebody and live in car.

What I would do is import the models on various softwares, tweak them up so they'd look the same, then upload their specific formats. I'm afraid this is the only way. Otherwise your buyers just need to know that importing non native formats usually don't look the same.

Really late to this video. But for anyone else that comes across it. I would suggest baking your PBR materials in Blender to upload with the model to be used in other formats.

Good to hear :)

Glad to hear it helped :)

@Christian William i think yeah

It's also "dirty" work, it's always the same and you would have to work 9 to 5 to stay in the race and just be able to make a living!

The way I see it is this... 1. Grant says it's hard as FUCK not always possible not many people succeed, but doesn't mean it's not worth a try. He says you won't make as much money in the sense that you will quit your job, but if you already have a job think of it as gas money at least. 2. This is a great way to practice and continue producing. 3. This is still a goal driven project to keep you doing what you love. 4. This also be used as a sort of portfolio per say. 5. There's a possibility of making money from it no matter how little doing something you love and find fun. 6. It's better that someone who is a established in the industry tell you the truth. Rather than keep your hopes up and you fall harder the higher you are. High expectations are a dangerous thing for anything and can be EXTREMELY demoralizing. Imagine for a second people wasting their time entertaining themselves and making absolutely no money from it. Think of gaming and people who watch Netflix all day... I'm not saying there's anything wrong with Netflix or Gaming as I'm a avid gamer and Netflix watcher, but think of the comparison. Keep going, shit... maybe prove Grant wrong *shrugs*.

Grant has just told you want to expect here. You say you had a great hope about earning money selling models. Sounds like you enjoy doing it. Work your ass off, do the best work you can do, learn and grow doing what you enjoy and if you make money doing it, well great. If not you'll still have a badass portfolio to show for it which might land you a job doing it full time for a big company. Either way it'll pay off. If you're into making models for games learn an engine and make a 1 hour game with your models. Seriously Unreal Engine is so easy to learn how to get a basic game going. If you're making film assets then make a short movie with you and your creations. Don't be afraid of the trolls. Trolls put others down because they don't have any workable skills or talent. If a troll says your work sucks then what? Does it suck? You've made 1 model more than them. You're trying to better your life so go for it. I'm going into selling models and in the future possibly software or games. Imagine 3D software. It'll be the future. Maybe not, but I'm telling myself I'm gonna win. Winning is subjective. My win and your win will be completely different. Make your first win to sell 1 model. Done Next win sell 10 models. Done Next win make £100. Done Next win pay off a debt with my passive income. Makes small wins which lead you to your version of a win. To be a success you need to answer a problem. Research the market and if you notice that nobody is selling robotic animals and there's a demand for them then make some.

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Good to hear 😃

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true but it's not impossible just very hard :)

Grant Abbitt I like ur mindset B)

I can't hold a real job anyways so I might as well try.

I don't think if that's true working hard always paid off or u can Alway work in studios

Lol, i had i cheap laptop and started videoedtiting simple things, like cartoons for people to upload on youtube, it didnt take any skills. I paid for school, i live on my own and pay for myself and take care of two cats. Now i bought an expencive pc to work with 3d. Its not that hard, tou just have to try and have some patience, its actually a matter of luck witch will come 100%

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I am a beginner seller, but not a beginner in 3d. You say that the model should pay off in one year. Are these your stats? Do you know examples of a good model that pays off much earlier than one year?

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Glad to hear it helps

Good to hear :)

Hell yeah. Totaly agree with you

I was thinking the same thing :) I absolutely love model making and have lots upon lots just sitting on drives and doing nothing, so I was thinking the other day, I'd might as well stick them online and see if I can make some pocket money :D

@@ChuckstaGaming makes sense 😃

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Thats great, where did you sell your renders?

Tricky to say. Both strategies could work

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They were competition entries

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yes look up rigify

I think that's how I went about it :)

Yes it's a good plan if you can manage it 😃

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indeed

good question. I imagine if its a very obvious version of a very specific brand then yes

@@grabbitt They have to catch you first

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Thanks i'll try and fix it in future

I think the only way is with vertex colours

@@grabbitt There are so many models but not as many .blend files and blender community is growing so how they export .blend files to all other files from blender 2.8?

check my website in the description:)

its called an ecorche

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@@grabbitt and yes the bit about what cg trader and ts charge is really useful as well. Thanks for that.

they most likely do but i'm not familiar with nomad export options

@@grabbitt from what i see its glTF / OBJ / STL / FBX. Thank you :)

i'll take a look thanks :)

i will go through that at some point

Good luck :)

YEs it's a very fast growing industry :)

Export it

Both

good question but i dont know i think you will need to look at the mixamo license

@@grabbitt it seems said ok, but market opinions are controversial

you cant you must recreate the textures

@@grabbitt ok.Thank u for the information

Sounds like you would be perfect for music videos if that helps. I work with short promo stuff for indy and major labels. Its often little work for pretty good return. Often, in my experience, just teaming up with someone that takes care of the stuff you don't want to do...at the time...is better than stressing over it. then learn as you go. I tried to be a one man band, it's hard in every single aspect. Yeah, sounds like you just need to link up with some like minds and do some great work. But I'm not telling you how to do your business. I hope you work it out. I keep coming back to 3d after big breaks. I need to just jump in....again.

Hi im also working with unreal engine 5 perhaps we can start a project together and also make a plan to earn money, I have few ideas. Do you have WhatsApp?

Yes no reason why not just not as big as the others 😃

People do well there and Blender is pretty solid as far as community goes..

games, printing, virtual worlds, film backgrounds...

depends on your skill level but it can take a good few days

@@grabbitt I was thinking about someone with high skill level, how much time he needs; Thank you for the quick reply!

Very good point I must have forgotten to put it in sorry. I cant now remember which video it was

Not sure

Sorry can't remember

maybe try a different site might be easiest

Yes

Any

I think the video was taken down at some point

@@grabbitt Ok, thank you!

It did sound suspicious :)

@@grabbitt its super shady...technically you can get 80% but you'll have to be in the squidguild (sell exclusivly on TS) and get a sale through an affiliate link, which will never happen

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what do you mean thanks? :D @@grabbitt

@@impylse thanks for the comment and info :)

We don't talk much being enemies and everything but pretty sure he's good because of the mutant healing and all that

@@grabbitt hahaha you're cool bro. Keep making videos man.

3d printing. Film. Games... Yes it's surprising how much they sell for

I don't actually know anything about the unreal market place :)

Yes but supply is also high

I'll do an update at some people

@@grabbitt thank you

I would personally say skecthfab because it's easy but look at some of the comments from people and make your mind up then :)

Never heard of them. If the traffic is good then maybe :)

​@@grabbitt You can check :O is site from Russian , Admin very friendly , your model alway check by admin before selling. And model selling with same price .

Sounds good

At least i'm going that path, but be sure the price indicates the value. So if you add for instance uv-maps (extra) or instead of a static image, a rigged version, you may up the price for that extra value.

Yes that seems a good idea.😃

is it possible same model sell on multiple sites?

@@alomgir2975 i think its possible, its like real shop some people only comfortable shop at shop A, some people Shop B and some people at shop C but if you can give your product to shop A B C you gain more. but then again it all come down to the rules of the website

@Park Spark you mean if its easy or not? I haven't really tried it but what i read is kinda hard since there is many 3d modellers out there who sale their models. What i read is you need to know the market first and sell as many object as you can also make it good and poly efficient, because its hard to gain money if only sale 1 object

thanks for sharing htough it's good to know about people's experiences