Sorry @Doki but after a lot of feedback written here, I agree with @Yannakis @OnTheRise about price and I highly support tendering idea from @CheddarQueso.
I was thinking to avoid writing my detailed feedback on your grant proposal, but.
Original idea of wearables and hairs reworks comes from my (rejected) proposal (because of idea with monthly default wearables, and because Shibu told me that another Foundation member was already working on models reworks) published back in March 2023 ([DAO:53c313f] Long-Term Standard Wearables Production)
As wearables creator and owner of original reworks idea (if I can say so), I would like to participate in challenge through tendering proccess published by Foundation.
Tendering is clear, transparent for community, and great challenge for all Decentraland wearable creators.
What about your pricing, here is good example. DAPPCRAFT charged 25k$ for whole 3d team that doing DAO HQ 3D models (my 3d team made more than 150+ unique high quality models with baked textures for this scene) with that price.
For Pick’n’Mix grant you asked 25k$, and it provides high quality assets for whole avatars (NPC). With different color variations. But I have some questions regards pricing for that grant too. Only 5 thematical collections with RGB solution, lack of good npc animations.
I agree once again with @Yannakis. Hair weight painting with smooth gradient transitions can be done in few minutes/seconds with addons like Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning and Lazy Weight Painting or copied from another prepared hair. All solutions eats no more than 5-10 minutes.
Example of final hairs that I made in less than 2 hours (Geometry Nodes + Curves and all the rest required steps for final model) (match all Decentraland limitations). Just will leave it here.
They cost me less than 150$ each on my secondary (almost full-time) job. I do similar hairs almost every day here for that price with different color variations.
Whole collection costs me around 800$ - 1000$ (collection includes unique hair, suit, feet for both genders, cloak on back of avatar + unique pet with 3 animations, 7 additional color variations for all pieces).
Here is example of whole collection with pet and stuff that I made for 800$ - 1000$. I do this collections almost every week. For a whole year of hard work and creating such collections with animated pets and stuff, My salary is less than 25k$ per year on my secondary job. Each collections eats around 30-40 working hours (~5 hours every day/night including weekends).
FYI @Canessa @Manadaiquiri pay attention to my numbers and amount of money that Doki got for Pick’n’Mix and wants for hairs grant.
Just wanted to leave more realistic feedback here to support community members @CheddarQueso, @Yannakis and @OnTheRise.
Don’t take it as hate from my side @Doki, I like and support you as creator, you have brilliant ideas and models, but I also see other community members and their feedback which I want to support too. Sorry once again.