Commissioned a 3D Artist to turn my 2D image to 3D. Disappointed. How do I tell him?
Hey all. I own a small business and one of my major goals is to have a toy like this animal light be manufactured. I found a 3D artist to turn my 2D character into a character very similiar to this toy so being "cute" and achieving this look were my only requirements.
However, I don't know if I am.. entirely too pleased with it? I tried sending some feedback but it still didn't look right to me. My initial reactions weren't, "awe, that is super cute" rather kind of unsure about it. I showed it to others and they had the same reaction.
I was directed to share my sentiments with you here, so being 3D artists like yourselves, is there anything you could offer to help formulate words to share as feedback?
This project has taken over 2 months (his turnaround time) to complete and it is still ongoing so the extended time and reluctance about how the project is going is killing my excitement for it.
Here is the 2D image I'm trying to base it off after.
Here is the 3D commissioned image so far.
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Hello. Sorry, man. But I don't think he knows what he's doing. The result looks like he just did 2 minutes of sculpting in Zbrush. If he actually spent 2 months on this then I don't think he's qualified to be taking commissions right now. Did you take a look at his portfolio before you hired him? I really hope you didn't pay a lot of money for this.
Yeah, he has a Fiverr profile which showcases some other work he's done. I tried reaching out to other profile sellers and they could not help because they didn't specialize in animals, so I ended up choosing this guy for a total of $86. I honestly don't know where to go from here or how I should approach further conversation.
My first instinct is to say, "$86 is very little", but it does depend on currency conversions, etc. But going through fiverr in general, frankly I wouldn't expect great results. For a well trained 3D artist in the USA doing freelance work, $86 likely wouldn't even cover two hours of work. And also frankly, a lot of good artists could do something better than this in less than two hours.
Re: the fees; admittedly, they're listing themselves as being willing to work for the listed fee, and they took on the job knowingly, but.. This is about the quality I'd expect from fiverr. Personally I'd accept the sunk cost and try to find an artist who specializes in stylized work like this.
For example someone like Pit Baldriz, who seems to churn out cute models of high quality rather quickly: https://www.artstation.com/pitbaldriz
No idea if he's available for work or not. And he definitely wouldn't be $86, but I'm sure he'd be quick and fair, and the results would be top notch and as cute as you'd hope for.
Cheap, fast, good, you can only have two.
2 hours in Zbrush, is this more of the direction you wanted the character to go?
Great job. Now I hope he hires you :D