Advice on Blender (CGCookie) Market

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Hi Everyone,

I would like to ask for a word of advice on the BlenderMarket site, that is CGCookieMarket.

I would like to pursue Blender as a hobby, as I am, but sell my models on a site like CGCookie Market. It’s the one I know dedicated to Blender, I know there are others such as TurboSquid and CGTrader, but as far as I know the Blend files turnover is in the region of 1%.

I would like to ask, what do I have to keep in mind, what do I have to take into account, preparing models for this site. I mean technically, such as should I bake all modifiers or leave them live? Are there any special requirements when preparing the files, what do people expect? Should I consider preparing files for some other renderer than Cycles too? But also marketing-wise. What sells, in example what subjects sell, but also the genre, such as low-poly game content or high-poly archvis models, such as furnitures, houses, or vehicles etc. Or animation content. How about tutorials, I see there is a section dedicated to tutorials too.

Maybe some of you have experience using this site and selling models. A word of advice from you would be very valueble.

Thanks.

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If you want to blind sell assets then there are 3 main categories:

  1. low poly assets for interactive multimedia (yeah games lol).
  2. very high poly models for visualization (catalogs, housing sites, etc.)
  3. adult content (anything goes).
    Use FBX and PNG. Put up as many models as you can, use as many sites as you can. On Turbosquid you can make a living. Rest will come naturally.