I've been doing 3D art for a few years now and have made a bit of money from a few places. Since it seems that people will pay for my work I decided that it might be smart to make a thread to let everybody know that I love money.
Reasons why you should commission
I have experience in both Blender 3D and Zbrush 4
I specialize in high poly but I do have experience in real time work as well.
While the majority of my work has consisted of human anatomy sculpts and hard surface weaponry I also have reasonable experience in the realm of vehicle and full character creation. The area I have the least amount of experience in is probably full environments.
I'm easy to work with and I'm way super friendly so we can always negotiate back and forth about pricing and model quality.
(I'll model for blockland)
Before now I've just had people come up to me randomly and ask if I could make them things, to which I would request compensation and then get money for it. But now it's time to establish a working system to satisfy both parties involved.
How to commission
First, obtain a desire for a 3D model.
Second, Come to me with that desire.
Third, I estimate how long it will take and calculate a round about price for the piece.
Fourth, decide if you want pay that set estimated price for it.
Fifth, I make it and give it to you.
Sixth, give me money.
(Paypal)Seventh, we both go home satisfied.
"How are you going to calculate the price?"
It's funny that you should ask that question! I actually spent a whole 30 seconds thinking about it before deciding on this:
The average amount I have been getting paid is about $3 to an hour of work spent modeling. With that in mind if I spend somewhere around 30 hours on something you only pay me $90. That's less than minimum wage!
(In some special cases we can negotiate other means of estimating the price.)
Here are a few examples of my newer models.
(You can view larger versions of the pictures by opening them in a new window)
A 3D experimental sculpt of myself A 3D sculpt of my father
A few more recent sculpts
Two hard surface models
A commissioned M4 and a Nagant revolver
Goals that matter:
I'm about $308 from getting a new computer built. It'll be totally cool to get off of this iMac from 2008.
That should be about it! Go ahead and start commissioning whenever you're ready, feel free to ask questions about anything.