Author Topic: Is there a market for cartoony stock footage and backgrounds (Read 3190 times)

carltino1991 · « **on:** October 27, 2016, 02:12 »

I don't really have alot of money to pay for gas to go around and shoot real stock footage... but i can draw pretty good and create animated vector backgrounds. Well I guess they wouldn't be vectors. I can create about 4 to 10 seconds of footage a day maybe more. I can also do realistic drawings that I could animate and maybe have it part cartoon part realistic drawing photoshopped in. I just don't wanna waste my time if people may not like it. Also anyone care to share their earnings on audio on pond 5

An added bonus of creating footage this way is if i make it artistic enough i could sell prints of the image. Meaning if I draw 10 seconds of footage of a woman walking through a mall i will have 120 images of the woman i could sell.

alno · « **Reply #1 on:** October 27, 2016, 11:08 »

Quote from: carltino1991 on October 27, 2016, 02:12

I don't really have alot of money to pay for gas to go around and shoot real stock footage... but i can draw pretty good and create animated vector backgrounds. Well I guess they wouldn't be vectors. I can create about 4 to 10 seconds of footage a day maybe more. I can also do realistic drawings that I could animate and maybe have it part cartoon part realistic drawing photoshopped in. I just don't wanna waste my time if people may not like it. Also anyone care to share their earnings on audio on pond 5

An added bonus of creating footage this way is if i make it artistic enough i could sell prints of the image. Meaning if I draw 10 seconds of footage of a woman walking through a mall i will have 120 images of the woman i could sell.

I'm not an expert in animation clips but most likely you shouldn't make those clips for stock sites, they are quite expensive in production for you. One even great clip per day seems not very promising. Content is king but there is quite high probability your clips will be simply lost in huge upload volume. You don't have to go far for shooting some simple clips by the way.

pixel8 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 27, 2016, 11:28 »

My advice would be for you to start your own media company and put together some commercial type animations and then present them to local businesses in your town to either enhance their company websites or for creating local commercials for tv for advertising their businesses, once you have found success in that I would branch out to local towns and then keep expanding!

Other wise I would suggest creating vectors for stock photo sites as you could probably pump out a lot of those, I would focus on vectors that other designers could buy to manipulate for their own purposes.

spike · « **Reply #3 on:** October 27, 2016, 12:26 »

Whenever I ask myself "is there a market for x?", I immediately do it and see for myself.

Why would inform my competition about a potential niche? Just try and see.

charged · « **Reply #4 on:** October 27, 2016, 22:24 »

I'd probably have you ask yourself how often you have you seen the type of animation that you are suggesting being used commercially. If it is not often, it might mean there is no demand for that kind of work.

Take for example, photos of people are used all the time in commercial work, thus probably high demand. Photos of random shoes, rarely used in commercial work, thus probably low demand.

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #5 on:** October 27, 2016, 23:11 »

If you build it, they will come.

carltino1991 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2016, 05:12 »

Thanks. I guess i'll just work on creating vectors since I can use them on shirts too. I got my first image accepted on adobe stock and fotolia yesterday. Was kinda happy. I had 3 rejected though.