{"id":167,"date":"2006-12-19T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-12-19T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T02:18:11","slug":"hard-time-finding-art-contracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/19\/hard-time-finding-art-contracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard time finding art contracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI contacted about 5 companies that posted ads on Gamasutra advertising art outsourcing.  All 5 ignored me.  I also contacted about 5 developers regarding licensing their models.  2 replied, one of which ignored me after I sent the NDA over to be signed.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why this is so difficult.  Admittedly I&#8217;m not EA, but I am offering tens of thousands of dollars for what amounts to a very small amount of work.  Why bother posting an ad only to ignore customer inquiries?<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing when I think about it.  If a company treats a potential customer this way, imagine how they treat customers who have already paid, or have some investment at stake?  Whoever I ultimately pay to do the artwork needs to have my game as the first priority and being ignored doesn&#8217;t indicate to me that is the case.<\/p>\n<p>It might work out for the best if I just hire someone after Christmas.  At least that way I control the ultimate quality.  With a 3rd party developer, they don&#8217;t have my best interests at heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I contacted about 5 companies that posted ads on Gamasutra advertising art outsourcing. All 5 ignored me. I also contacted about 5 developers regarding licensing their models. 2 replied, one of which ignored me after I sent the NDA over to be signed. I don&#8217;t understand why this is so difficult. Admittedly I&#8217;m not EA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}