Although I agree, there's is the other side of the deal. I've got a choice as everyone else, give my content away or sell it. I mainly choose selling it. We all know it takes hours to model and texture, sometimes way too much time. In the beginning I only did props, but my items tend to be collections of props.

 

Here's how it started, years ago..... I made a set, all made of props, a tropical toon island. Didn't have the intention of selling it, just used it in some of my own images. I was contented by quite a lot of people asking me where they could get this set. So, I added it to CP for a small price. In the end it sold well, just under $500 and with all the extension I made for it, just over $1000. Was that worth it? Do we even need ot ask the question? At that same time, RDNA noticed my work and invited me to join. Stayed with them for about a year, but it just isn't my kind of store, now I'm only selling here (small collection) and the full collection at CP now.

 

I've looked at the total sales, all stores combined, and last year I sold well over $2500 and the revenue made seems to double each year. Could have released it all for free, but asking a small fee, $1.99 in return for the work I did seems fair to me. If you add all the small fees, it becomes a nice amount, encouraging enough to relese some more items. I know, compared to the big vendors, it's a little amount, but for me it's a nice amount of pocket money, which I would have missed out on if not going this route. If I'm honest, I would not have released as much if I would only do freebies, I would take it a lot slower, so in the end, everyone wins.

 

Quote - aeilkema : What can I say ,Hope you enjoyed the distractions.

 

In all honesty, who wouldn't? I'm not sure if my wife enjoyed me enyoing all of the distractions..... oops sorry dear, this link is not what I expected. Anyway not a problem, she was surfing the other night, looking for some information on a topic and ended up on a pornsite, so I guess my distraction was minor compared to that

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk