Is selling 3d models worth it

Not worth it don't believe the hype you will get 3 to 4 sales a year even with perfect models! And soon with the digital money system you wont be able to sell anything!

This is a very tough bussiness way too many people doing it at the end of the day the lowest price wins no matter what you do

its an ad

what a depressing video...jeeeesh

My advice will be to work as an independant studio and find client that pay you good for YOUR PROFILE. There is very skilled poeple but that doesnt know how to carry a customer or the work as an independant. Here is the difference.

If you want to sell 3d models , stop making 3d models . Rich people don't make what they sell. They have others upload their work to sell on their websites. That's a fact.

The most important part the market is declining due to oversaturation, at least for the last 20 years. So even if you find out how the current situation works for you, expect it to get worse.

HOW MANY POLY/TRIS DO WE NEED TO MAKE THIS KIND OF MODELS ? ARE THEY OVER 100K TRIS ??

Please add an automatic translation into English.
I don't know the language well and would like to read subtitles.

The short answer is yes, you can make a living from it. The reason a lot of people don't is simply that they're doing it wrong. Good luck to everyone that tries.

What do you thing about built my own wordpress/woocomerce online market and sell 3d models by myself ?

For me 3d modeling has worked, I found a place to sell my models or inspirations. But you must have a backup fund for those months where sales are low...

I find making artworks using Blender with 3d assets way more easier and a lot less time consuming to make money.

"Is selling 3d models worth it"
of course not!

3d modelers on turbo squid or similar make crap stuf and those who do good stuff, ask crap small prices for an item that the buyer would be willing to pay easily withoutr blinking 10 times more...... the logic that you need to be cheaper than an artist that is emp;lyed in a studio is bullshyte to say the least..... you can certainly ask what a 3d modeler would cost for one month salary , for a single model, for 2 simple reasons... 1 no one can hire infinite amount of 3d modelers for ever permanently, 2 even if they did, they still wouldnt be as fast as buying from u a production ready model... it has to be noted, that on top of everything, your client the buyer is NOT the person who is putting in the money... it is the final movie or whatever company that pay the studio for the production for his 3d animation that puts in the money.... and your buyer , perfectly writes down every single cent he has to spend to pruduce what he was asked for in any way and get payed for it or tell the client to go fuck himself... and yes that coyuld even be HBO.

so if u do have a great charactr or architectural scene that took u a couple of weeks to make perfect to the tin... it is folly if yoiu do not ask anythingabove 4000 us$ instead of he usual pathetic 100 to 400 dollars range.... and guess what... they will pay for it indeed and beg you next time to give them more.
i sell 3d assets and make the worst month 6000 euro a month. yes six thousand... and that a hobby for me.

you should ask yourself, is the earning worth the time and effort spent on a single 3d model? The market is very limited. Most game developers or agencies likely have their own library or suppliers of 3d models. This is only good to earn extra or passively. Don't forget that you create 3d because you love doing so, making money out of it is secondary.

Rather than freelancing, you would be better off getting an animation job and selling models on the side

Im high school student and while im home and have online school i want to work from home and sell 3d models. can anyone recommend me some websites where i can do so

It feels like been stabbed T_T

i think if you are a skillful teen ( which there is not a lot ) you can make good profit for what you really need

What about photo scanned models? I've been thinking about getting into that business since I'm from a country that has a very unique landscape, rocks, vegetation and so on and it's literally not being utilized by anyone here. The population is 55,000 people so I know :P
I'm sure I could sell Hdri's taken here and photo scanned models.
Does anyone have experience in this field that is willing to share?
Any tips? :)

if you are a kid and you are good at that then you can make a living out of it. if you do that from young until the end of high school if you are good you will probably have enough money to buy a used car to drive to college if it's a long-distance

This is more depressing than inspiration...

In Malaysia 500$ is mean almost MYR2500, average freshgrad salary.
In Amerika I think 3000$ is standard income too.
That's why most Asian can lives with 500$. It's worth one month salary

Which software you are using?

but why sell at all if you can't even make a living out of it? Modelling takes a looooooot of practice/work. Longer than any apprenticeship or study at university. Why sell at all if this effort is not appreiciated? let the market suffer until they value it. What we are also lacking of as 3d artists is a b2c market. All of this is B2B and that works only by either doing significant price changes overall or by opening up a B2C market with a broader audience? so why doesnt the B2C market work so far? Because the customer base over the years built up an expectation of free extra content and would bash on any content market model, as well as the developers being afraid of this reaction. So all in all the players salt their own soup. Like I said.. there need to be an significant change before I consider selling models like that.

"If you live in Europe or The US" because no other places in North America exist

Imago Aeon is a girl named Charlotte Carda on artstation but you refer to her as "this guy" xD

I am sorry but I couldn't watch this video till the end. I was being interrupted by ads every few minutes. Way too often...

So... Artists need to value their work more, rather than lowering the price to make a quick sale. It's like the horrible economics of a WoW auction house... Those big companies who need the models aren't NOT going to buy them. They can't make them themselves, hence why they are buying them. Start utilizing the demand so the wage evens out.

oh. okay. so it isn't worth it.
i guess i'll just do some photogrametry of the weird awesome looking rocks at my farm and sell at the unreal store. pretty sure people will buy them

he is right though you are hemorrhaging money, in sense at the price range for your last example 4 pieces done in 160 hours for $500 is only $1.28 hour your being paid less than some third world countries even for enjoyment and love of the craft you still need to keep a realistic value of your time or you become the proverbial starving artist, speaking's one who knows from years of being he.

As a programmer who does some Blender work at part-time, I just don't understand why 3D modelers just make their model opensource, can't they just make a 3D model GitHub?

If you high skills just get a job as 3D Designer,but if you live where I live that's good money

Anyone got ideas on how to make money as a 3D animator? I have a pretty damn good reel but no takers. I think the main issue for studios abroad is they are afraid of the tax process as I live in a 3rd world country.

"Basically, if you want to go into 3D modeling as a career, your best bet is to get a job" what kind of bullshit advise is that?

Got it. Dont live in California. lol.

Really arent we just selling the 3D art to ourselves, other 3D artists? Whether you are a programmer who wants models or a someone who has a 3D printer. The real market is selling a car to a car company because they dont want to pay an artist $20 an hour for a week when they could just spend a couple hundred and get it right away. We just dont make a product for the average joe. And who we do make it for, doesnt have a lot of money or doesnt want to spend a lot of money on our models.

3-5k a month is just evening out. Not even living large.

Im 12 and im a begginer so in few years ill be better and maybe you know ill earn some money and for me even 20 dolars is a lot

its very worth it if you dont mind selling to horny furries

The short answer is no,.. unless you're in a third world country or live the "van life" and dumpster dive for food.

If you did this AND did freelancing for specific things people wanted, you would probably have a good chance to make something happen

I could live with as little as like $150 (minimum wage here) and quality wise I think I'll be able to do anything any first world 3d artist does by year's end (plus I have a decade+ experience in traditional art and stuff) but I have no idea how to sell anything online. It sounds so impossible... do you just have to register in a lot of stores and upload your stuff there? Surely there's more to it?

ok I'll get bashed but fuck it I'm just going to say it. more you guys let 3rd world countries into the western market more we'll lose money. they'll just copy your work, cut the price, sell it when you can't and you'll forced to cut your prices. now thanks to cgtrader like websites we're all enslaved by big corporates. now, we have 2 options to fix this. 1 leave the market and let them burn until the prices goes back to normal. 2 build a new non-profit art trading platform that asks social security numbers or passport copies when you register, adaptively forces seller's price range according to their currency and maximize true creator's profits. so you heard me right, we need to lobby up and go for monopoly. they asked for it.

you are kind of contradicting yourself.
first you are saying that inhouse modellers are more expensive to work on a model than just buying it.
But than you are saying that inhouse modellers are more experienced and provide a better model...

What are you trying to tell?

Yo ! King Tuts,

I am looking for an stl file for the Iron Throne- life sized that can use to create my own with a 3d router vs printer. Wood is cheaper.
Can you provide this ?

Is c4D not an industry standard for modeling?

What software is used. I want to model from a photo of a large fish with detailed scales