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About
Here's a potted history of how this site was started, and as promised at the start a transparent overview of how it's done in it's 1st year of operation and what's changed.
Designed and created by MrSparky, the artist behind Sparkyworld (a popular site for 3d freebies),
designer/creator of some of the content included with Smith Micro's Poser 6, 7 & 8 and one
of the original co-founders of Vanishing Point.
The primary purpose of PoserDirect is to sell 3D models, and Photography, at affordable prices to home based digital artists who use software such as
Poser, Daz Studio, Carrara or similar apps. Plus now it also showcase some of the other commerical/artistic projects that I've created or collabrated on.
As many small businesses have found, the biggest barrier to starting up was a total lack of support from banks and the government.
Fortunately the University of Chichester recognises the need for innovative small companies and sole traders who wish move into new areas of technology.
They provided links to the organisations shown below, who helped with start-up funding, advice and support, and the site started in late 2009. Intially there where some problems until the site was moved to a new host which resolved those. Now most problems are related to email blocking by hosts, such as Hotmail or Comcast, rather than internal issues.
Most of the great people that helped with the research and starting up where students, so these folks have now moved onto other things. One of the sites biggest suporters has also been seriously ill as well. Their help and support was much appreciated and I would like to say thanks to them and the other folks who've supported the site.
I've also decided to drop the micro/startup brokerage concept that was designed to help other artists. It's been very difficult to promote and it's very clear a small
site can't compete against the big boys.
Instead I feel the site would be better off by not trying to be a big fish, but aim to offer a more friendly personal service.
This means I won't be overtly asking people to sell here anymore, but might still accept submissions if anyone asks.
Though not everything has changed, over 90% of support emails have been answered in under 24 hours, I'm continuing to keep working with other artists, and providing a service that reflects my feeling that 3d art should be fun!
Created with help and support from:
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| University of Chichester |
Capitalise Business Support |
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| Enham |
Sussex Enterprise - Business Link |
Ready To Start
Mucho help from Fine Technologies
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