Why this is:
The cmo3 file is like liquid gold.
As a rigging artist giving your cmo3 someone can:
- reuse mass reproduce your work file for other models or their own commissions.
- Mass produce your file and profit off of your work
- Take your techniques and your style
- The credit will become confusing when a model that no longer looks like the original rig is still credited.
Rigging is a technical art form. Most people don’t know the time and personal techniques that are put into models. A lot of big name rigging artists don’t show how reproduce their style because in rigging style is everything and what sets you apart.
If someone gets a cmo3 and literally can reproduce all the rigging artists hard work spent on it. Even to the point of mass selling it on a larger scale or using it for their own commissions- the rigging artist is the only one who gets hurt.
You pay for a cheeseburger at a restaurant but you don’t pay to know the recipe.
Riggers if I'm paying you to rig my model that file should also go to me. I PAID FOR IT. it is MY MODEL.
Like what is this industry ? I pay THOUSANDS of dollars to not own the file of my own rigged model ????