>> Artists will pay for a good portfolio. Is this the kind of portfolio an artist would pay for? I'm skeptical of this. I know about 9 artists who have recentl

>> Artists will pay for a good portfolio. Is this the kind of portfolio an artist would pay for? I'm skeptical of this. I know about 9 artists who have recently graduated and are doing small shows, oddjobs, or freelance design (looks hard). All of them have created an online presence and none of them have payed much (if anything) for it. Some learned to program themselves, others put stuff up with templates or on free portfolio sites. They're all quite poor. So that's a data point. I do know one more established artist (prof. at USC) who recently paid for a site, but I don't think she'd have been happy with something that wasn't totally custom. Another direction to go in with this is to create a marketplace like Etsy for 3D models. You could host portfolios for free and take a cut of transactions. I'm very interested to know how signups are going.