{"id":142059981608,"date":"2018-01-25T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sketchfab.com\/?p=142059981608"},"modified":"2020-07-10T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:35:26","slug":"seller-spotlight-francesco-milanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/blogs\/community\/seller-spotlight-francesco-milanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Seller Spotlight: Francesco Milanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first of a new series of posts on the blog focusing on artists who sell their assets on Sketchfab. We\u2019ll be looking at what drives them, how they create their work and what they do to create a successful business with Sketchfab. Expect tips, tricks and honest advice on how to make money from your passion.<\/em><\/p>\n

Francesco Milanese has been a member of the Sketchfab community since 2016 and was one of the earliest people to join our Store beta programme.<\/em><\/p>\n

My name is Francesco Milanese, I’m a freelance 3D Modeler. I’ve been a BFCT (Blender Foundation Certified Trainer) since 2010; I got a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Catania (Italy) in 2011. My main technical skills include Blender 3D, 3D Studio MAX, GIMP, Substance Painter, Unity, Python programming (especially for Blender 3D scripts and add-ons creation). I don’t call myself an “Artist”; instead, I say I’m “just a 3D Modeler”: I lack the unique vision \/ inspiration Artists have, but I know the fundamentals of CG, I can use some software (and I made some scripts for Blender, 3DS MAX and Unity, too, to speed up my workflow) and, if you provide me a sketch\/photo\/reference, I can make it in 3D. I like to say that I HELP artists, architects, game developers, etc., providing them the assets they need to “realize” their ideas.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/models\/3b8f1c8ab4b743e7a4d660d626025556<\/p>\n

I started selling 3D assets 3-4 years ago, by chance: at that time I was making eBooks and tutorials (in Italian) for awhile and I modeled some assets to use them as \u201ccourseware assets\u201d (e.g.: some scenes to be used in a book about Cycles Renderer, or in a course about Post-Processing Compositing in Blender 3D, etc…), when a friend of mine said to me \u201cDid you know there is this \u201cAsset Store\u201d on which you could sell your 3D Models?\u201d — so I put some assets there… and they sold! Last year, royalties from assets (both stock and custom-made, combined) overshadowed those from eBooks (in Italian), so now I focus more on assets and I call myself \u201ca 3D Modeler\u201d :)<\/p>\n

As I told you before, I don’t have any \u201cartistic work\u201d, so I can tell you this: when I don’t have a request from a customer, I just model objects and products on my own. When I see something I like, I make it :)<\/p>\n\n\t\t