Hi fellow TG2 friends,
I would like to to test drive an idea with with you. In the past, and to this day, the part of Terragen that interested me most has always been clouds and skies in general.
I have spent countless hours designing skies for various specific purposes, and I believe that has given me a certain level of proficiency in this area. In the past few days, the thought woke inside me to pack together subject matter specific atmospheres and skies, together with their recommened lighting, camera and render settings, and sell them for little money through my website.
My first question to you is: what do you think about this?
Then, I thought of (in fact I've already done it), making available the Atmosphere Packs through two different pricings: one for personal use, one for commercial use. My intial thought is that a ready made set of skies for USD 1.99 provides good benefits for personal use, whereas for commercial use, it's more like 20 USD. So my second question is: Does that sound reasonable to you?
I've started the whole thing on my new webpage (
http://nwda.webnode.com/terragen-2-tech-packs/), just to give it a shot. I actually have no idea if it's going to work. The first available Atmosphere Pack is a rather special beast. It contains specifically tuned project files to make skies that resemble the old 17th century marine art paintings from the Netherlands (and their artists from that time).
The second pack is already in the works, maybe it takes a few days to complete. This one will be a sunset package with a selection of cloudy and also clean skies, that look much more realistic that the default sky - and I hope, much more interesting, too ;-)
Now, I would also like to mention, that despite making my atmospheres and skies commercially available, I'm not going to stop sharing my knowledge through this forum - in fact I will continue doing that in any case. For now, I would simply like to get a little bit of feedback from you guys about the idea.
Lastly, if someone with a little bit of TG2 experience is interested in testing the packs I'm producing, please contact me through pm.
Thanks;
Frank