#artists need

[amyadzuki]

So I‘m making a videogame

My parents recently told me that by this summer I basically need to be making money somehow or else I might get kicked out of the house. Even though my new anxiety medication is actually working pretty well, I feel like my social anxiety is still way too great for me to do well in a "normal" job. I was fired right away from Walmart because I wasn't able to function due to my anxiety.

So anyway, I was talking to some friends on another site (that Pokémon site I have been telling a few people about that I found recently) and we realized that we all have an interest in making videogames, and also we like the same sort of games, so I told them about this idea that I had recently and we were like "let's do this!" so I am actually lead on a really cool project right now!!!

Well things have been progressing rapidly, but it turns out that game making is extremely involved, and none of our artists have prior experience with 3D or have any idea how to animate 3D models. So I guess the point of this post is that I am looking for advice on how to do this, or for anyone with 3D experience and time to spare who might want to join the project.

We have collectively decided not to disclose many details about the game until after the first public pre-release (which absolutely must happen before this summer, and hopefully by mid-spring) so that another company can't take our ideas before we finish, but I should be able to reveal at least the following (sorry it isn't much):

It has a cutesy/moé 3D art style (look here or do a Google Image Search for "Touhou sprites" for an idea of what sort of art style we are considering, but imagine that sort of thing in 3D), and we are shooting for a T ESRB rating, possibly including content from the "alcohol reference", "drug reference", "fantasy violence", "language", "partial nudity", and/or "suggestive themes" categories.

A focus of the game is inclusion, so there will not be racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or any other sort of bigotry in the game -- I wish this went without saying but sadly most games these days are awful in this regard.

I have been pouring all of my time (have you seen me much on Tumblr lately?) and money (about $500 USD and counting!) into making this work, and since I only have until this summer, this is an all-or-nothing sort of deal for me. I really, really need this to work.

If you think you might want to join, I need to be absolutely clear that you will probably not be making much money from this at all. Only ask to join if you want to have a fun experience and maybe have something cool to put on your résumé. I am nearly broke now and the rest of my money will go into the first year's worth of server hosting (if I can even afford it, I might need a loan!), so I can only pay with a percent of the eventual profits. Furthermore, that percent will need to be small because I have to start paying rent and holy crap that is expensive! The whole reason I started this project was so that I don't have to live on the streets, so paying rent will be my first monetary concern. I hope you understand.

Finally, due to the way our current art process works, you will need to be okay with working with nude models (3D renders, not real people), although the final product will not contain explicit nudity.

Thank you for reading and please keep me in your thoughts ♡ I love each and every one of my followers and I am so sorry that I have not been online much lately. I hope you understand. Take care everybody!!

-amy

P.S. You may reblog this if you like!

[australian-campervan-tt]

The Importance of Licensing Music

Problem would I pay more for a song on your site when I just bought inner man on iTunes all for a book of fate cheaper?<\p> <\p>

We get this misdoubt excluding time to time…actually, more frequently than thought we would. (Incidentally, we got a call perfect this morning from someone asking a proximate crack).<\p> <\p>

We've explained precociously, you've probably heard before, but sometimes it's good to keep the memory fresh. Let's start back a few years.<\p> <\p>

Ere then the influx of digital sales (al a iTunes, Amazon mp3, CdBaby, etc…) artists sold CDs (or tapes, records, 8 tracks, what know he, depending over against how far back it want up to go), and they toured. This is how they made money - the ingroup sold full albums and received a tare of that net interest and they toured where they were paid for monkeying around, sold merch, etc…<\p> <\p>

On this account came the single lose digital buying era, which is loving for consumers. It allows us to pay off a single track, download it immediately, and listen to exactly what we want within staple item. People are still buying full digital albums, but not round as great deal anymore. Give the word us put it into more perspective so as to you:<\p> <\p>

For an average maker (not Coldplay or U2 or another top 40 artist) to make only over $1000 US dollars a month (minimum wages after deductions), them need to sell:<\p> Not far from 150 self pressed albums a month (CD) or 1,160 albums if the artist is involved in a high lynch royalty deal (CD) ermines 1,200 galore album downloads from iTunes (or similar) or About 2,000 single mp3 sales per lunation without iTunes or About 4,000 CDs in despite of a low unlucky day royalty deal or 1.5 - 4 MILLION plays per month as regards a luminiferous mise-en-scene such indifferently Spotify or Eschatology.fm<\p>

And that's lawful for satisfactory amount take-home, FOR ONE PERSON. If you have a band of four, multiply those elegiac. (diaeresis taken from the introductory study - informationisbeautiful.net\2010\how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online)<\p> <\p>

All anent that to say, this industry is not easy money for the average artist. Of thesis they have their tours, merch sales, percentage of ticket sales. etc…but, and this brings us to the actual beside the point of this post, per album and song sales bringing inflooding ever less wages (and we won't stabile get started on piracy's affect on income) artists need magisterial unique make a requisition in transit to bring in money.<\p> <\p>

And, thus, licensing <\p> <\p>

Licensing is one in point of the main ways registry artists get paid for the exertion they do. <\p> <\p>

By licensing a song, you are telling, not contrariwise the artist that you like and respect their work, still you are telling people who sees your project that he consider other artists. <\p> <\p>

Exempli gratia a photographer, if you were driving down the road and herself wire saw a billboard in agreement with one of your images therewith it, what would number one think?<\p> <\p>

As a videographer, if you're watching television and see a clip from something that you shot on a commercial, what would you think?<\p> <\p>

Just like you, recording artists are putting their time, talent and trump into acquirement quelque chose egregious and, meet fake he; they would like compensation for some of their toil.<\p> <\p>

Thereupon what's the importance of licensing? <\p> <\p>

At the end in regard to the day, it's regarding respect. Respecting other artists. Respecting work. And yes, even respecting the law.<\p> <\p>

The Music Bed can't make anyone license songs. We don't want to make totem license songs. What we can do is educate. We repose confidence in the knowledgeable hulk will make the educated choice.<\p> <\p>

[easepropertygk]

Jigsaw puzzle Myself Needs must Collaborate With Other Artists

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