Quote - Well Rokket, the cliched standard response seems to be "Find a gap in the market, do your research, market it, release the odd freebie extention pack" and Bingo you are rolling.

Personally I think that gap is so small, and the demand for it would be so minimal that it isn't worth the effort. The solution seems to me to be to take on the big boys at their own game, create the skimp wear with a few added bells and whistles, create the bizzare poses and do really amazing promo images. The promo image has to be the shop window, how many times have we walked past a store in the real world that has a badly outfitted tailors mannequin wearing the latest fashions and thought, urgh, that sucks, yet 6 doors away seen the same items in a modern well lit well thought out display and been swayed to purchase. I'm only coming at this from a purchasers point of view, but so many market place items "turn me off" by really bad promo images. I'm not disputing that the product may be good, but in this era of mass marketing, multiple product choices, we really do more often than not judge a book by its' cover.

If I were even to consider becoming a vendor I seriously think I would have to work twice as hard as in the past, a constant flow of freebie items to keep your exposure up, exemplary textures, pristine uv maps and gold standard customer support are in my mind the difference. Oh yes and not forgetting my latest product is now reduced in price to $3.99, is it all actually worth the effort?

Yeah, I pretty much agree with that. The biggest reason, in reality that I don't decide to do this is what we were talking about earlier in this thread: can't do it full-time, you need another income to get by, especially nowadays. My current full time job is merchant seaman. I am on a ship on the ocean for almost 10 months out of the year. Not much down time while on the job, and internet access is sparse. So I continue to plug away at learning Wings 3D, starting to learn Blender, and still trying to wrap my head around the nodes in the material room.

Every great once in awhile, I put out something I want to share. And I do that by putting in the freebies section. I think I got into the Poser game years too late to want to do this for a living.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.