Насколько я мог понять из ответов хозяйки стока на другом форуме им нужны, как уже выше сказал Юрчелло, заполняющие недостающие ниши иллюстраторы с достаточно объемным и регулярно пополняющимся портфолио, соответствующим их(её) субъективной оценке качества. Их бизнес-модель для стока нетипична. Они скорее ближе к агентскому подходу. Типа "ответственность перед постоянными авторами и постоянными покупателями".
Это пишет один из авторов, работающих со стоком
Цитата:
GraphicGravy
I just talked with Jamie, the owner of ClipartOf, about accepting artists. Jamie is very passionate about taking care of her artists and only works with serious artists with a proven track record.
Here are the requirements at ClipartOf for accepting new artists:
1. The artist must offer completely unique style and content from what we already have so we don’t dilute existing contributor sales. We do not frantically add contributors like other sites do because its unnecessary.
2. Must have at least 1,000 image available to us at time of signing. All files must be vector or high quality 3d renders.
3. Must be able to accept payments via paypal.
Jaime added, “The difference between us and other sites is that we have very limited spots and will not always continuously add.”
ClipartOf is not for all microstock and vector artists. I was lucky enough to get my portfolio accepted, and the results have been great. If you meet their requirements, I would recommend that you try and add your vector portfolio! If not, or if they turn you down, don’t worry about it. I know that Jaime and her small staff are extremely busy, so they may not be able to answer each and every one one of your questions, or go into detail about why they turned you down. Don’t take that personally. Instead, work on improving your portfolio and finding ideas and concepts that designers need.
I have worked with Jamie and ClipartOf a lot, and I know one of her primary goals is to help her artists be profitable and successful. Her guidelines are put in place to make that possible.
А это хозяйка стока.
Цитата:
jvoetsch
We judge by the quality and quantity. If you have 1,000 images but they are similar to what we already have, we're not interested. If you have 200 images and your details and concepts are out of this world, you're in.
If your portfolio doesn't make us go "WOW," we have no interest. We only need so many images of a waving American flag, shields, grunge elements, flowers or of cute puppies and we only want to add so many artists.
After being an image reviewer and library owner for over 8 years, I am rarely impressed and I'm disappointed in the lack of creativity and uniqueness these days.
I'm looking for diversity of images, quality, and the wow factor and for artists that contribute on a regular basis (weekly or even monthly) that are in this for the long haul so I don't have to add more artists later.
I looked up your portfolio and you are offering the same styles that others already have submitted to us.
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Its not about who's is better in this case. Its about who came to us first. I'm not going to boot off existing artists and replace them with new, similar work, nor am I going to add more of what we already have. If you actually paid attention to what I wrote, its about duplicate content. We need fresh, new, exciting imagery, not the same stuff over and over by new artists.
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We aren't interested in adding more than a couple hundred artists, and I dont kick off artists to add new artists that offer similar content. That's how we work. I guess artists do like being bullied and abused and apparently expect it. helix7, I did not say anyone was better than you I was clearly saying you dont have anything different to offer us from what our existing artists already contribute. That is all. Take it how you want to but I didn't say so and so was better than you.
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A lot of people also dont understand what we are doing over here. I'm not trying to stock a library as full as possible. I'm trying to fill one niche at a time. Once I've added an artist for that niche, I dont want to add more. I'm doing this in hopes of giving our contributors less competition with our other contributors, so they make sales and stay for long periods of time. Its worked so far.
ну и так далее в том же духе
Последний раз редактировалось smpl_vstr, 10.05.2012 в 21:59.
Это сток, каждый из авторов которого охватывает свою нишу.
ну и плюс продаваемая лицензия - это фактически расширенная на использование, поэтому цены и выше.
Все работы аттрибутируются вручную администрацией.
плюс есть пул сайтов-сателлитов, которые также дают продажи.
Если вы считаете, что ваш портфель уникален, и похожего там нет, можете прислать мне заявку, я попробую вас рекомендовать. Но в отличии от других мест, результата не гарантирую.
требования вам уже изложили - не менее 1000 работ - раз, Пэйпал - два (никаких потом, подожду и т.п.) - два. Уникальность - три. Не любят симиляры - четыре.