Turbosquid and similar platforms
I think its almost impossible to sell a model and make decent income by selling 3d models on turbosquid and similar platforms.
There are tons of 3d models, why would somebody buy yours? this is like a playing a lottery.
There are tons of 3d models, why would somebody buy yours? this is like a playing a lottery.
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Usually this ends up with the top 2% getting most of the sales and the rest fighting for the left overs.
I know a few people making a living on selling products on asset stores, but they are really putting in the time as well as they have tons of experience.
What do developers want when they turn to stock assets? IMO they want a wide library of assets that are style and quality consistent, and are visually inoffensive and functionally are the things they're looking to buy.
What does that mean? Well it means don't have 5 characters, 2 rocks, a water texture and a lamp post. You want to be the one-stop for all their X needs. Why? Because we don't want to buy from 10 different authors, it would be prohibitively inconsistent in style, aesthetic etc. I'd rather come to you to get all the foliage for my game, or all the rocks, or all the city props.
Doesn't mean you only do rocks of course, but it does mean do all the rocks we'd need, not just three or four. Because I'm not buying one rock from you that doesnt match the 20 rocks I have already. I'd rather buy 50 rocks from you. You can then do another set of say, sci fi props or urban or whatever but make each set of assets substantial.
Which brings me to the next important thing: Don't make hero assets. We don't come to buy hero assets, we do those in house. We come to you for the thousands of things that we'd rather not put our most creative people on because their time is better spent elsewhere.
So all the little props and pieces, not the stars of the show. And on that note, i should reiterate that you aren't trying to steal the show. If your asset draws the eye it isnt going to get used. Go for an inoffensive style that isn't _too_ stylised in any particular unique direction. Ideally realism or the most common stylised look.
This kind of sucks for character artists though. Most devs that are going to substantially invest in you (buy your entire library) are not interested in your characters, they've got their own
and MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL: don't impose your shitty colour pallette choices on us. Always provide source psd or sbs and ideally, high poly source too so we can adjust anything to match the game. Don't mind paying more for this.
The rest is obvious; high quality, well made assets that are to current AAA standard.
I suspect that what sells best is character packs that are tailored towards some very common indie genre and use classes or archetypes that are standard in that genre.
Mobile in particular; don't underestimate the fact that every mobile platform is flooded with literally thousands of shovelware games per day.
I'd rather target the professionals