Form Fonts

solo

Form Fonts is by far the most reliable and consistent 3D model site out there IMO, with over 35000 models so far they are heading in the right direction it seems.
I have noticed there are a few Form Font artists on this forum and had a few questions regarding contributing.
I understand this is a public forum and some answers may be sensitive, If so please reply via PM.

I read what was available online, but it seems a little vague, what criteria is required for submitting models?
Is there a required volume needed or rate of submission?
Remuneration (this is the sensitive one) is it per model? At what rate?
Any advice or information that you feel like furnishing

Thanks guys, I hope this is not in bad taste, I believed this would be the ideal place to ask.

Jackson

I doubt you'll get any useful info here as it would be a little senstive to discuss on a public forum (and they'd probably be swamped with folks offering their services asa result). Probably best to just drop them an email via their contacts page.

solo

On FF homepage "34,000 3D models and growing."

I added my 1000 available models...

Alan Fraser

I just thought I'd jump in here and clear up a few points.
I believe the number of models is about right. The Search function has limitations as to the number of returns it will display. Just like 3D warehouse which (last time I checked) seemed to be limited to about 10 pages. Also, 3D models doesn't cover all the 2D Face Me stuff which most people would also count as useful 3D content.

Regarding the question of selling models through FF...basically, you can't. We are not a retail site, we are an on-line database paid for by subscription, so the remuneration system is not really set up to buy and sell models piecemeal. For that you would need to go to somewhere like SketchUpmodels.com.
Obviously, in terms of income, all the models are "pre-sold" inasmuch as we receive a certain income each month from subscriptions. This income is then divided up between the FF artists according to a formula based on how many of their models get downloaded compared to the total downloads. So you can see it's a little difficult injecting "extras" into such a formula. If you are taken on as such a share artist then you have to fulfil a monthly quota.

We have a natural balance between the number of modellers thus employed and the amount of income we receive. There are certain forum members being considered at the moment for addition to that group because we could do with the extra input and (equally importantly) can cope with it financially without our current crop of artists suffering a fall in income because the pie needs to be cut into more slices...obviously it does, but it's a bigger pie, so everyone is happy.

We have been known to buy collections of models (or an ongoing string of models) from people cash-on-the-barrel, but obviously we will only do that if we feel that they are going to add extra value to the site. For instance, there would not be much call for buying a ton of generic furniture...however good it's quality...when we have masses of such content already. We'd basically be laying out money for zero return, because we, ourselves, wouldn't derive any extra income from including it alongside our existing content. If someone had modelled a low poly version of a substantial part of the Kohler range,for example, that might be different, as it might have a beneficial effect on the number of people signing up for subscriptions.

I hope that's answered a few questions. I've given out about as much as I can without being too indiscreet, but if there's any other points you'd like to raise, I'll answer them if I can.

solo

Thank you Alan

You clarified most of what I wanted to know.

Stu

Coen, 'bitchy' doesen't suit you.
Sounds like you had a bad experience at FFs....but then maybe there wasn't a huge demand for hamburger, intergalatic cannon etc. components
Stu