I have noticed my 'buried' status is much different at some other sites.

I was looking at my deviantart gallery today ( PLUG: arcady.deviantart.com ), and I noticed I had images in the middle of it that had reached 800 hits. Images that here on renderosity are in the lower hundreds, and which even there for the first half year os so got nearly no hits at all...

Somewhere along the way the right person must have linked to a few of my pics... that or the cross networking there simply works better.

Here, as noted above, after 24 hours I can pretty much kiss any new hits goodbye. Rare is the image that keeps getting seen after the first day, maybe two days if in Vue, three in Bryce (funny that, it used to be Bryce was -the- gallery here, but those were the days when the then admins here banned people for mentioning Vue too often in the forums or even claiming Vue was better, and that's been almost 5 years...).

Thumbnails do seem to be very important. A switch in thumbnail of an image a few hours old has revived its exposure for me on two recent occaisions. One went from very slow to reaching 300 by the 24 hour mark, the other from some 20 odd views to breaking 100.

I've been of the impression that if I really wanted to max out views, I'd do butt-shots in 'short-shorts' from a camera angle slightly below and slightly to one side... But I've only had two pics in my 7 years here that made sense for that... :P

High heels is interesting, never considered an idea like that. I have noticed that the people who get very high hit counts like a style that is best described as 'render a purchased pre-morphed face in a purschased pre-made pose with a purchased pre-made texture map, using a purchased pre-made light set with a purchased pre-made camera angle in Poser or Daz Studio and then postwork the entire backdrop, atmosphere, and light effects'. Those are people that are really more 2D artists than 3D, they're 2D artists drawing over a premade 3D image. That is probably an unfair characterization - it's just sort of a perception I've picked up.

I too figure somewhere in the work-week is best rather than the weekend, but I've never sat down to really analyze it.

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