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DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,393
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Do you have a website/blog?  Do you have a gallery at DA?  How and where do you share your Daz-related hobby?

 

I am a hobbyist, but am nearing the point at which I want to share some of my art and some of my custom Daz compatible content.  I currently have 3 or 4 freebies over at sharecg of varying quality as I get better.  Now I want to have a place or places where I gather my art, tutorials, thoughts, and custom content for sharing.  For example, I have some prop and figure projects nearing completion, such as a tomato plant prop, a toy wagon figure, and an outfit for G8M (and morph set).  I have also put together some written screenshot tutorials (distinguished from video).  I would like to gather this somewhere.

 

What do you use to share your Daz-related hobby?  How did you set it up?  What are some of the advantages and diadvantages?

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  • Griffin AvidGriffin Avid Posts: 3,822

    Choice D) All of the above.

    That is ALWAYS the right answer.

    Pick one place to be your main hub. That is your "mouth" the destination you want everybody to go to. Probably a blog for now. It holds the most varied content and you can place whatever you want on there.

    You can have links to PDFs or the WHOLE tutorial on there. Direct links to your various downloads etc...

    All the other sites, like ShareEgg or Deviant Art (people have direct download links on there as well), the Daz gallery, your instagram/tumblr/whatever serve as the 'arms of the octopus'  = constantly pulling whatever attention you grab back to your main hub, where you want to gather contacts and subscribers. If business or 'some business' is you aim, then you want to get the sales part of all these arms working together.

    If you grow, get better and consider turning this hobby into a business, you'll at least have it set up so your whole online presence is easy to convert.

    The Daz stuff goes a few different places, as does the tutorials and whatever else you have to offer.

    You also don't have to build Rome in a day.

    Look at your future list of offerings and gauge WHERE you need to share it first.

    Looking at the attention you do get should also help you prioritize projects.

    If the Daz stuff gets more attention, focus on that.

    Pay attention to product requests and ask or make threads about what you can do and get some feed-front.

    Make up a cool business or semi-pro name and make a facebook page for that entity. Start to link all your hubs together so you don;t have to keep posting everything, everywhere.

    Auto-linking means a post on your blog goes to your facebook and twitter and...and.....

    And vice versa....

     

  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513
    I have a DeviantArt where I post freebies and also link to them in the DAZ forums. I put renders up at DAZ, Rendo, and in relevant threads here.
  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,393

    Thank you, avxp and agent unawares.  I did not realize that DeviantArt accounts could host freebie ZIPs for download.  I will have to investigate a little more to learn about file size limits, general access, etc.  It does not appear that someone has to be logged in a DA account to download.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    between DA, UTUBE, and Rosty gallery.

    i need nudity flags smiley

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,393
    Mistara said:

    i need nudity flags smiley

     

    Or maybe just place some strategic fig leaves for groot.  wink

     

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i am groo ooo oot smiley

     

    oh and my amazon book covers.  need to update those M4s and David3s.  still have Jameses and Jessies 6s out there.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,393

    I didn't realize you had the book series also.  Wow, that is terrific!

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175

    All my freebies go up on ShareCG. I have some of them at Renderosity also.

    Laurie

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,997

    I post all my artwork at DeviantART and here too.

    If I did freebies still, I would just use my Mediafire or Mega accounts for hosting and post a thread here in the freebies sections. 

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,805

    My art goes here in the gallery, Renderosity galleries, Deviant Art, some of it goes on Facebook and I also have a website that I really need to work on some more and then publish.

  • dragotxdragotx Posts: 1,147

    Deviantart is my main hub (I use a different handle though).  I also post some work under this handle at the galleries here and at Renderosity

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited September 2017

    Everywhere. these are just a few

    IvysdomainDOTcom, animationforumDOTnet,  SharcgDOTcom, RenderosityDOTcom, deviantartDOTcom, Google+DOTcom,YouTubeDOTcom, cgsocietyDOTorg, renderoticaDOTcom, dreamslayerartworksDOTcom, createspaceDOTcom for publishing books on Amazon, &  e621Dotnet (Art & Animation forum) , vimeoDOTcom

     

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,393

    Thank you, Ivy, dragotx, IceDragonArt, Mattymanx, and Allenart.  There does seem to be quite a variety of approaches. For those who report having multiple outlets, do you notice different feedback, or do you think you are reaching the same community despite different web locations?

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    I post freebies on sharecg. I'm very vigilant that my freebies be free no strings attached and available for commercial use with no attribution I tend not to use freebies a lot because their terms of use aren't clear

     

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,322

    redhen-publications dot com. I had the website years before I stumbled across the forums here and began to suspect that 3D might be the answer to a projected project that had been sitting on my back burner for several years by then.

    I also tend to sign up for various fanfests or holiday exchanges. Gives me a chance to do something other than illos for my publication projects.

  • dragotxdragotx Posts: 1,147
    edited September 2017
    Diomede said:

    Thank you, Ivy, dragotx, IceDragonArt, Mattymanx, and Allenart.  There does seem to be quite a variety of approaches. For those who report having multiple outlets, do you notice different feedback, or do you think you are reaching the same community despite different web locations?

    I am very definitely hitting different communities in all of the places I post.  DeviantArt is by several orders of magnitude more responsive than any of the other places I post.  I have single images there that have as many (or more) views as everything posted at Daz/Rendo combined.  Of course, a lot of what I post there is rather more NSFW than allowed either here or Rendo, so that will affect views somewhat.  Plus DA is overall a much bigger community, so it's kind of like the difference in advertising at the local hot restaurant vs advertising on a billboard along the freeway.  At the restaurant you can have a much more specific group see your stuff, but the billboard hits more people.

     

    I've noticed a few familiar faces from here show up in my notifications at DA, but none over at Renderosity

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  • tkdroberttkdrobert Posts: 3,611

    I share my art here, DeviantArt, and Renderosity.

  • twitch99twitch99 Posts: 81

    Devianart for me, much of it is NSFW, so can't post here!  I shop Rendo, but have never posted there.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    AllenArt said:

    All my freebies go up on ShareCG. I have some of them at Renderosity also.

    Laurie

    +1

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,997
    Diomede said:

    Thank you, Ivy, dragotx, IceDragonArt, Mattymanx, and Allenart.  There does seem to be quite a variety of approaches. For those who report having multiple outlets, do you notice different feedback, or do you think you are reaching the same community despite different web locations?

    I forgot to mention, one of the main reasons why I like DA is that the user base goes far beyond our community and so many more people end up seeing your work.  I also find that 90%+ of all the artwork I favor on DA is not from this community

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited September 2017
    Diomede said:

    Thank you, Ivy, dragotx, IceDragonArt, Mattymanx, and Allenart.  There does seem to be quite a variety of approaches. For those who report having multiple outlets, do you notice different feedback, or do you think you are reaching the same community despite different web locations?

    Hi Diomede, to anwser your question,  I am guessing most of the people I reach and have contact with are pretty much the same across the board in most sites...  I do belong to a couple of animation forums though that have their regulars. that I don't see else where. I use YouTube alot for animations & I see alot of the same people there as well.  I use DA & sharecg for my free stuff, mostly only because most of the people into 3d are familiar with sharecg and DA, I use renderotica for adult content for the same community familiarity reason.

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  • DustRiderDustRider Posts: 2,888
    edited September 2017
    Mattymanx said:
    Diomede said:

    Thank you, Ivy, dragotx, IceDragonArt, Mattymanx, and Allenart.  There does seem to be quite a variety of approaches. For those who report having multiple outlets, do you notice different feedback, or do you think you are reaching the same community despite different web locations?

    I forgot to mention, one of the main reasons why I like DA is that the user base goes far beyond our community and so many more people end up seeing your work.  I also find that 90%+ of all the artwork I favor on DA is not from this community

    +1 I definite reach a much different audience on DA than I do here or at rendo. I also have a group of viewers at rendo that is mostly different than here. DA reaches an audience that has a much wider range of viewers with interests well beyond just 3D CG too. (My galleries are in my sig links below)
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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,409
    edited September 2017

    For my images

    I used to have a blog - well I still do - and I used to do Illustration Friday - the idea was to advertise my work to the world and to try and get an agent.

    The advantage of doing this that, once you get an audeince, you become more serious and have to lift your game.

    It's a lot of work though - so far the blog has had 246,251  hits but you work for it. You also get to be better known internationally but that's not necessarily and advantage.

    eg I had an offer to work with a Chinese sculpture who had a residency in Berlin - as soon as he found I was in Oz that was it - no more collaboration.

    I abandonned it pretty well when I got my agent.

    I post my work on facebook now because I want to speak/communicate with artists who I know are geographically close.

    It also gets me work in my local area and I am better known to people I can meet in real life.

    Next year I have a show of digital work in a major regional art gallery because of my use of facebook and advertising my work there.

     

     

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    For my images, I usually scribble them on construction paper with a crayon and tack them outside to a tree for the squirrels to enjoy...

    But mostly they just defile them.

    For my freebie models, I put them up at ShareCG... Which lately kinda makes me feel like I abandoned them at a messy thrift store run by an eccentric old carnival owner, but that's a personal issue due to recent changes there... Other than that ShareCG is okay.

    For my writings... I slip them into my Readmes with my models for people to discover later, or I make long, ill conceived attempts at humor disguised as forum post replies... Though with the popularity these days of the rejection of any writings longer than 140 characters, I've mostly reduced that... Especially here, though that has nothing to do with people not reading, just me not coming here as often.

    For my mad inventions... They mostly just explode or catch fire, so that takes care of them...

     

    Oh, I also have a Deviant Art account, which I go to every ten months... The amount of time it usually takes me to forget why I don't use it... Maybe I reject it because I don't do Facebook or the social media thing, but there is something confusing about trying to do anything there... Like I need a cheat sheet to figure out what is what... It's great to look at other people's work though, when I get a link... Finding stuff on my own, is kinda hard though.

     

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