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« on: January 18, 2025, 06:07 »
Anyone received any AI training royalties for 2024 on Istock??
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« on: January 15, 2025, 14:50 »
I'm really disappointed - I no longer qualify for anything free from Adobe Stock.
I had fewer downloads in 2024 than 2023, so I was aware I'd probably slip back to the single app plan, which wasn't a big deal.
However, I never imagined there'd be such a big leap in the number of approved assets required to qualify - the last two years 20+ was enough to qualify as an active contributor.
I've never been a high volume contributor but only had 117 approved assets in 2024 which isn't enough.
I had 5739 downloads - that's where Adobe Stock makes 70% of what they llicense my content for, but that doesn't count for anything?
Right now I'm angry and thinking of closing my account, but I'll go away and try and calm down to think about what's in my best interests.
The flood of new content Adobe Stock has been accepting suggests they aren't short of new material. But some newbie who had 350 downloads the whole year gets the free software and I don't? And when you announce the program after the year is over, there's no chance to do anything to add some uploads?
It's just utterly disrespectful of contributors who make sales, IMO.
Same as me, 120 clips approved for 2024...I am uploading only 3d animations (difficult to render, it takes a lot of time to make them)...1000 + downloads and NOT ELIGIBLE. Thank you Adobe for all the effort we put in  (
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« on: October 04, 2024, 21:46 »
Usually I don't write much on the forum but now I have to write a little about our work and I mean... "Us 3d artists".
Recently more and more of the websites ask me to attach a property release for each of my work to show them the animation construction. Including timelines, toolboxes, a brief description of the creation process, and the original source of all CGI models I used.
Istock asked me in writing, in the property release to specify that my video it is not AI generated.
All being said I'm even getting threats from Shutterstock "This asset has been rejected. AI Generated Content: AI generated content is prohibited. Repeated submission of such content will result in account suspension and/or termination."
It is already more and more difficult for me to keep proving, apologizing and starting from the beginning...all the time. I wonder if there are other people in my situation?!
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« on: January 01, 2024, 02:47 »
Happy New Year! and lot of sales to everyone 
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« on: December 29, 2023, 06:45 »
Quick question (if anyone can help me).... It seems to me or Shutterstock removed the option to select clip thumbnail in catalog manager??
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« on: September 29, 2023, 05:40 »
There are many "trival" things contributors have requested for a long time, like "let us select an earning overview for more than 1 year timeframes" or "stop the page from jumping back to the top after you move a keyword when sorting them" or "let us search our own port for keywords from the dashboard" - What good is the option to search for IDs? As if we all knew image IDs and would not have to do the extra step and search for keywords in the serach bar of our own portfolios, copy the image ID and then enter it in the serach bar in our dashboards....but it's never happening.
Adobe's contributor interface has not changed one bit ever since I became a contributor. Not a single requested improvement was ever implemented in years, no matter how trival the request was. 
You are right  Matt also promised us the possibility of selling editorial video, do you know anything about this? or...it was just a joke?
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« on: September 29, 2023, 05:10 »
Adobe Stock, with the most video sales in the world in 2023, it doesn't have a simple button "Select video thumbnail"
I am angry, after asking for this trivial button countless times. It is so hard to implement it !?
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« on: November 29, 2022, 07:41 »
pangamedia don't waste u're time, there is nothing left to analyze... everything is at such a low level that a personal analysis would take a few minutes, we don't need a tool. Sorry
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« on: October 14, 2022, 02:58 »
For all the whiners on the forum, nominate what suits you and that's it, you have this opportunity. Jessus...
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« on: February 05, 2022, 07:29 »
The popularity score was implemented a year ago,if i'm not mistaken...does not record the usage or popularity of an item before implementation.
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« on: January 09, 2022, 08:06 »
They look impressive, but only from a distance! Strange hair and wonky eyes. While it's heading in the right direction, and I have no doubt they'll be indistinguishable from a real human in ten years or so, they're not quite there yet. And you'd have to add fake shadows when comping them in a scene which is notoriously difficult to do well. Interesting stuff though.
Ugly faces, Interpol's most wanted 
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« on: November 03, 2021, 01:37 »
Hi All,
If you have vectors and/or illustrations online in your Adobe Stock portfolio, check the contributor portal between now (Monday, Oct 25) and November 2. Selected assets may be available for you to nominate to be accepted into the Adobe Stock Free collection. If your nominated asset is accepted after the nomination window closes on November 2 you will be paid an upfront amount of $5 per asset. It's a short window for nominations so act fast!
Let me know if you have any questions,
Mat Hayward
Hi Mat, I would like to know if in the near future you are thinking of nominating clips for the free collection?... and if so what will be the upfront amount per asset?
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« on: December 06, 2020, 11:22 »
Do you mind if I ask you to show us a link to that clip? thank u
and why would he want to do that?
Why not !? Is there any secret and i dont know...I would like to see it for many reasons: subject,quality...etc
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« on: December 05, 2020, 13:48 »
Do you mind if I ask you to show us a link to that clip? thank u
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« on: December 04, 2020, 06:15 »
One question... it is convenient to upload to Blackbox ? considering that my clips r already on Shutterstock, Adobe and p5, except Vimeo Stock which is exclusive right now....so just for Vimeo Stock ? thank u
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« on: October 20, 2020, 03:37 »
yeap 400 - 500 clips deleted
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« on: September 26, 2020, 01:10 »
videohive.net u can set u r own prices, i am selling more animations then shutterstock,adobestock or pond5
Do you keep your prices relatively similar to Shutterstock and Adobe's pricing? Or do you sell them for a lot lower? It seems like most stock footage on Videohive is being sold for a lot less.
Dang you were right about videohive. I've been on there less than a week and already made 6 sales with only around 70 videos. Way better than any stock agency, at least for 3d renders.
I am happy for u  ...(as an ex) finished one 2 days ago and today bang 83 $, nice.
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« on: June 11, 2020, 07:34 »
Never been to Iceland but i wish to...just love that country, so much emptiness and silence. Nice shots,bravo.
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« on: June 11, 2020, 03:37 »
same here, 5 sales all from 6/10/2020 strange!?
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« on: June 01, 2020, 11:08 »
Another 1000 sales and maybe you'll reach 100 $ for the energy bill...good luck 
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« on: May 13, 2020, 01:46 »
Yesterday I had a sale of 26.40...
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« on: April 23, 2020, 03:52 »
I'm working in Cinema 4D. Rendering time with Octane render is a bit faster than directly in C4D, but it takes around 10 minutes for one frame in FullHD. 4K takes a lot more time. I have Intel i7-7700, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1070.
I've been using C4D for donkeys years. I moved to it after my 3D Max training in 2001. I've always been a moderate modeller/animator,nothing professional.
I've never used Octane or Redshift ever. Been thinking about it for years. IS Octane the one you can rent monthly? What's it like? Worth the money?
Cider Apple, Octane worth all the money, simply... THE BEST rendering engine and easy to use, easy to create materials...etc Redshift also a good one but slower in my opinion.I am using both of them.
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« on: April 23, 2020, 03:20 »
Nothing is certain these days, Adobe may adopt a policy identical to Shutterstock.
If you ask me pond5 will come out with something similar soon, they have been waiting for a serious move from Shutterstock for a long time.
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« on: April 23, 2020, 03:13 »
Videohive is a joke. $11 (or less) for a 3D render? Yeah right, one week of rendering and you can earn pennies? No way, I'll stay with Adobe.
Then don't sell them at $11 then, sell them at the same as Adobe... or more. And even if you were to sell them at $11, you'd probably make it up in volume. I make more on VideoHive than any other agency, even with lower prices. While it's nice to get a high royalty per download... I'm much less concerned with how much I earn per download, than I am how much I have in my bank at the end of the month.
As I said, I will NOT sell for pennies and that is called principles. I'm not one of those who help with all this dumping thing. So, if your goal is to sell your clips some day for $1 you can do it, but I wont.
Komikmiha, calm down man as i've already told u.... u can sell animations there setting u r own prices from 0-1000$. I don't understand your upset 
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« on: April 23, 2020, 01:57 »
I'm working in Cinema 4D. Rendering time with Octane render is a bit faster than directly in C4D, but it takes around 10 minutes for one frame in FullHD. 4K takes a lot more time. I have Intel i7-7700, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1070.
Komikmiha, 10 minutes for one frame in FullHD it is tooo much !? r u using Directlighting or Pathtracing ? ALWAYS USE Directlighting for video ...and put all the Kernels settings to 0 ,then gradually increase them until u get a decent rendering time /quality image. Have the same Intel as u i7-7700, 64 GB RAM, GTX 1070...that's why I'm surprised.
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