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What do you mean by articulation.
Do you mean rigging it?

Also is that the model you requested?
Because if so I hope you didn't pay much as a very similar model has been shipped around a lot of warez sites for a while.

if you've sent at least two follow up emails with no response, then fuck him and file the claim.
he needs to learn professionalism.

>>713708
Articulation as in chopping it up and sculpting joints into it, I planned to 3D print the end product.

If you happen to have it handy, could you post what model you're talking about? He sent me a handful of WIPs, and from the refrence I sent him, it seems to be a wholly original sculpt.

I paid $200 upfront, and the last $200 was to be paid when the .stl file was delivered. I thought the price was very fair and am happy with what he did, just not happy about him vanishing for two months.

>>713709
I have sent him a check-in every two weeks, so this is what I'm leaning towards.

Thanks.

>>713712
if you want to nice about it, send him a courtesy email telling him you're going to file the claim, but that you're willing to retract the claim / pay in full if he provides a completed STL file.

>>713715
Went ahead and did exactly that.

In the event this guy truly ghosts and I need to start from square one, if anyone is interested in picking up the job, I can be contacted at brokenlevel at gmail

>>713706
>I can't imagine why anyone would finish the job like 90%, then ghost before getting the last half of their payment.
How the fuck is articulation easy?
Unless you got ready joint balls it will take a long ass time to make and boolean them.
Used to prepare a lot of models for 3d printing, it was not easy, required a lot of modifications.
And 200$ is not enough unless its a simple mesh, ive spend sometimes days cleaning up and dividing shit up, booleans on all parts, dynamesh, reproject detail, then decimating all parts to around 1mln or lower, then throwing them at the slicer and only then would they get printed.

>>713749
this. Fuck off op. You got what you deserved

>>713752
If OP and the ghosted fag had an agreement, both ought to abide by it.

>>713749
He set the price himself, and communicated to me that it was something he was comfortable doing/that the jointing for him would be a non-issue. I had 3 other potential artists quote me in the 400-500usd range when I was hunting around, so I figured it was "fair" for this 3D job. However, I made it very clear that if the job was more than he bargained for, I would pay more. I am not out to fuck anyone over, so I don't know what you're sperging out about here.

I come from a traditional sculpting background and this was my first try at working with a digital artist on a project, so forgive any dipshittery on my end?

is your pic the thing you commissioned op?

>>713756
Problem is that there is always a bunch of retards, kids, and indians driving price down of everything online.
This is why 3d freelancing is such a nightmare dominated by crappy quality and art thief.

I see this shit all the time, people taking on jobs that are way beyond them and then figuring out mid way they fucked themself over, maybe what happened here, while modeling is pretty forgiving when it comos to topo and polycounts the moment you start decimating, slicing dynamesh and projecting super high dense models your pc will shit yourself, you will spend 10 min at a time staring at frozen screen and wasting your time, you need to know what you are doing.
Also why initially 3d may seem faster than real life sculpting, you soon hit software and technical limits that dont exist in real life, you cant put on too much clay and crash your tools, and you cant make a model unrecoverable by saving it with one 1bit mistake in vertex order in a 2gb file, but zbrushing or maya crashing is like their default state of being.

>>713752
fuck off, idiot. No one forced the contractor to take the job.
When I was still learning, I would have loved to get such jobs, not be an asshole to the client.
Let me guess, you are one of those assholes, who snatch a job by undercutting market prices, then shit on the client, because the project took longer than you had envisioned. Shits like you give freelancers a bad name.

>>713769
Yeah, based on these drawings. I was happy with it, so am very disappointed it's never going to be anything other than these jpgs.

>>713782
OP these are cute drawings. You have the ztl or obj of the original file?

>>713797
No, the person I commissioned only sent over .jpgs of his progress before all the ghosting happened.