Rent an artist?
polycounter lvl 8
So.. there's this site called "rent a coder" that well.. you can figure out what it does. Does anyone know of any equivalent (or better) for graphics jerks/jerkettes?
For those who don't know what it is..
http://www.rentacoder.com
For those who don't know what it is..
http://www.rentacoder.com
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Not to say there aren't a lot of iterations on code, but if someone asks for a function in Windows for example, it either works as intended or it doesn't. You give someone a character and say "Model this", even the most badass among us will have to make iterations and change. Sometimes ridiculously so.
I think why places like Turbosquid stay in business is because it's a giant mash of pieces that if someone is looking for simple and (usually) inexpensive 3d, they can buy the object and hope it works for whatever project they are doing without having to hire or contract out a 3rd party artist. (Even though the actual quality of most of it is....lacking....)
There is a sub form on Turbosquid for people who are looking for 3d artists can post up projects, sorta like what we do here for the job postings. But how many companies out there are constantly looking for 3d artists that don't already know where to get em?
Do you actively try to make everyone on polycount hate you? Are you attacking the entire concept of remote or freelance work, or just the name kawe asked about?
Or rent a coder, which he linked, which has already proven itself fairly successful?
Your post was pretty ambiguous, and yet even so pretty much every thing you could possibly mean would be annoying, trollish, and wrong.
Just use the search features to narrow down 3D/2D/graphic design related tasks and you'll see plenty in a nice variety. It's not very game centric of course, but there's also Garage Games' site that sometimes has postings for work with actual compensations as well.
http://garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=marketplace&page=jobs
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She wondered why he never ate food and stuff.
Everytime he sneezed he disappeared:)
The difference between code and graphics is that even if you have to change code you can usually keep a lot of the code you did and just change the parts that are wrong. For graphics it may be easier or most likely a lot harder to change something without having it affect everything else. Modularity ftw.
Personally I don't think the website is such a bad idea. I had my doubts on Rent a coder too.. how it works. But apparently it does work so... there are plenty of ways of getting it to work. Like paying half of it up front and the rest when the art is finished.
Also I wasn't thinking strictly 3d art... any graphics goes really. I mean I bet there's a lot of poor guys out there that need some neat graphics for their websites that could pay you enough to put a day or two into it. I mean I bet whatever you guys make will be better than what that poor person can cook up in a few days. Not really glorious work... but work is work
Erh.. well.. tbh I was mostly asking if such a site existed and apparently there isn't one so ya...
Oh, I'm sorry. It does relate