Is this a hobby or a job?
Kevin Rye
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Just curious to see how many artists out there are turning a profit from their renders. Is this a hobby for you or is it a job?
For me, it's just a hobby, but I wouldn't mind selling a poster or two.
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Oh, sorry. I voted "full time," but I don't sell renders, I sell 3d content.
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It's a job for me. I know lots of people who sell comics using the content. Most are erotic though.
It's the best job I've ever had ! And I've had more than a few of the other kind.
Agreed. Best job making content:) Very stressful though, but worth it most of the time.
It is a hobby to get my mind of work and bills.
Lol sometimes overspending here, puts my mind back on bills.
At this point it's a hobby, but I'd like one day to be able to justify a bit of the expense. That takes time and practice, but it's a lot of fun.
Yes its a lot of fun, best hobby ever:)
Hi, my name is Matthew and I am addicted to art.
I love being creative and I love to do it all day long. I even do different kinds of art through out the day such as working on a model in Silo and then working on a render in DS later on to relax. I find I cannot go a single day without being creative.
ps, I dont want help to quit. I just felt it was time I shared the truth with everyone!
:p
I am hoping to at one point in the future, get a bit of a side income if not a full time job from it. At this particulary point of time I am still learning, so I would call it a hobby with future plans ;P Most of all though, it is a personal way for me to be able to use my creative side and get out all the images I have in my mind when writing and roleplaying and so on.
It's defenitely a hobby at this point as I am still working on developing my skills.
I'm working on a webcomic but progress is very slow.
Nice to see a short intro from you Matthew, your cars are impressive work.
I profit from all the love I get.
Poser Pro 2010- $149.00
Purchasing various books and magazines to learn to make models and render them- $300-400
Various plugins for my modeling program- $50
13,972,653 hours spent learning to make models and convert them for use in Poser- $12,952.00 in stress related hospital visits.
Posting my freebies- Priceless!
Now if I could stop twitching, I could possibly enjoy that warm fuzzy feeling.
EDIT- Never mind... it wasn't a warm fuzzy feeling... it was just a huge mutant spider crawling up my leg. It's hard to tell the differences sometimes...
Thank you!
Anything about tha comic that can be shown off yet?
Its a profitable hobby. I post plenty of my own creations long winded stories on my sites, which in turn has gotten ppl to order their own custom stories. It's on and off so I can't depend on it to make a living but its nice enough to buy me stuff and toys like content my recently built 32G tower and most recent Panasonic GT series 65" plasma 3D TV... I love watching fake 3D...
I do do 2D illustration work and I use renders as rough references for my drawings (that's why I got into Daz Studio) but I don't sell rendered artwork, in fact other than reference material and maybe some animations for arts sake, I have little interest in actually making rendered artwork.
What I have found really really enjoyable is modelling and in particular modelling stuff which I give away for free. It's always very nice to see other people using the stuff I make creatively and it doesn't cost me anything to make it so I enjoy being able to give it away. So 3D is strictly a hobby I do for my own enjoyment.
For me, it's a jobby (a bit of both).
I use it on occasion in my side-work editing video (throwing in 3D Logos and such) but it's just a small aside which comes in handy when needed.
Now once The Millennium Cow is released... I'll be making Fortunes on those renders!!
It's a hobby for me, but I wouldn't mind trying to sell a few in Second Life eventually to bring in a few Linden dollars. Working on building up a portfolio large enough to justify opening a gallery in there.
I do sell prints of rendered work, but also as a hobby I'm working on a web comic.
Strictly a hobby for me to help illustrate stories and novels I write. But it's fun and addictive.
Hobby, and sometimes a rather expensive one, but I'm working towards getting better to turn it into a part-time/extra cash gig.
Greetings,
Hobby, although I make a smidge of actual money off of affiliate links now and then. I also have a plan to use some of my renders as backgrounds in an iOS game I'm building for my son, so not actually selling renders, but using it as helpful material for the stuff I do sell.
Fundamentally though, it's just a hobby...and a very expensive one. :)
-- Morgan
Hobby, but I'm like Cypherfox in that I make a small amount of income from affiliate links. I don't know if I will ever earn more than I have/will spend on software and content, but I'm also aiming to become a content creator in the long run. I very much like the 3D modelling process and would like that to make up part of my income too.
You don't have to make ALL of your income from something for it to be considered a job, you just have to consistently make more than you spend. That said, CG, DAZ and Poser are all just tools, and there are a LOT of artists and animators out there who use these tools to as part of how they make a living. In my own case, CG assets are part of what I do for a living, though I'd probably be pretty thin if I tried to support myself solely off CG alone. As part of the overall package, however, I do quite nicely. :)
Glad I stumbled upon this thread.
This is a super expensive hobby for me at this point. I have spent untold amounts of money in the DAZ store alone. I think I am truly addicted. lol
I would actually like to know how others have transitioned from a hobby into making money selling their work.
My aunt recently saw some of my latest renders and was really impressed. She especially liked my new DAZ versions of older airbrush paintings that I made. She loves seeing the evolution of those ideas into something new. So she wanted to know all about them and how I made them. (Which in and of itself, DAZ 3D rendering seems hard for a lot of people to understand or embrace) She has a friend that runs an art gallery in their area and said she could try to arrange for me to showcase some of my best stuff there one day with the hope of selling prints/posters, etc.
But I am apprehensive because I do not know what is involved in that. Not to mention that I use purchased content to create my renders since I do not model everything on my own. What are the legalities in that?
Art Therapy.
You'll need to check individual readme files if they exist but my understanding is that pretty much anything you buy here (and most of the other stores as well) can be used to produce commercial renders. Once you turn it into an image or animation file it's yours to do with as you please.
Still it doesn't hurt to double check with the creator of a piece of content that you use if you're not sure.
Hobby. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler.
You'll need to check individual readme files if they exist but my understanding is that pretty much anything you buy here (and most of the other stores as well) can be used to produce commercial renders. Once you turn it into an image or animation file it's yours to do with as you please.
Still it doesn't hurt to double check with the creator of a piece of content that you use if you're not sure.
Yeah, I think I read in another post that anything we render or animate is ours. Which I supposed makes sense since a lot of combined elements and tweaking and postwork goes into all my renders. So in that way I would say they are still unique.
It's my career.
Not particularly profitable, but...