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Official Announcement: HiveWire 3D to publish Animals through DAZ 3D

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Chris

HW3D President
Staff member
Co-Founder
HiveWire 3D announces that we will publish our original animal products exclusively through the DAZ 3D store.


With that said, here is the back story, the reasoning, and enough details to inform everyone as to why we came to this very important decision, for the strength and future of HiveWire 3D.


HiveWire has a history from our beginning, of trying to make our content available to many stores in this DAZ Studio and Poser community. When we introduced Dawn, we contacted Renderosity, Runtime DNA, YURdigital, Poser World, Reality 3D, and yes even DAZ 3D, to invite these stores to support our Dawn release. Everyone we asked to support Dawn, by way of a Dawn Community Bundle and supporting contest, did indeed jump in excitedly... with the exception of DAZ. Throughout the years we would still invite DAZ to support contests, and HiveWire Community Content Bundles with no positive response. But, this last April, DAZ reached out to us by way of an email to me.


Lisa, myself, and our team, were surprised to see DAZ move in our direction. This started out as an open discussion to consider ways that HiveWire and DAZ could work together for the benefit of both companies. This discussion was never about DAZ wanting to purchase HiveWire, just to make that clear. But other options were very much considered.


Over these last several months, several lunch meetings, Skype meetings, phone calls, and extensive dialog exchanged in a lengthy email chain, we've reached this mutually beneficial decision. What DAZ has is an intense interest in publishing our quality original animals. So this is the area we kept coming back to and the one that would make the most sense for us.


This is what we've agreed to that I can share that is not confidential. HiveWire will publish our existing and future original animals exclusively with DAZ, in both DAZ Studio AND Poser formats. They are in fact adding to their product base of Poser products and want to make our animals available in both formats.


We are starting with our HW3D Big Cat, Cougar, House Cat, and Kitten at DAZ. Laurie Prindle/CWRW is tied in to most of our animals, by way of her gorgeous texture map work, and product imagery. After talking things over with her, these were the products requiring the least amount of updating to prepare for upload. Then we'll move to our HW3D Horse, associated breeds and on from there. Laurie will move some of her additional supportive map and pose products to DAZ to enlarge the product offering. She'll start with her Panther, and Tabby maps.


HiveWire 3D will not use our full company name as a vendor at DAZ. We've agreed to abbreviate our name to HW3D both on those products published at DAZ, and as our vendor name at DAZ. There is concern that customers at DAZ who don't know about HiveWire (which is most of them), might do some internet searching and find our site and store, and we'll gain further traction from those searches. Our company name is not changing, only our vendor name that will show up on our products at DAZ.


Our full company name is currently all over our own products so our animal product imagery is being redone. Laurie has been, and will continue to do product image updates to match the DAZ requirements. She is also making material and texture updates for Iray and Superfly as well as updates for 3Delight and Firefly where needed.


So you can anticipate a very limited time table for all HW3D animals being available in our store. When we get word from DAZ that one of our submitted animal products will be set live on their store, we will then deactivate that product on our store, and point (link) that product to the DAZ store. Any updates made to the products for the DAZ store will also be updated for those of you who have already purchased the products at the HiveWire store. You can watch the product updates thread here for details.


This is the delicate part, but it's important for all who want to know, and those who care about us, that we're doing this to keep the HiveWire site and store strong. We view this as a means of increasing our revenue base, that will ensure that HiveWire is here, and healthy for years to come. You can call it offering up our sacrificial lamb for the good of the whole company. Call it whatever you want. But please know that we view this as a necessary business decision.


Will there be some concerns for us for having made this decision? Most certainly yes! But... we strongly feel that the benefit of moving our original animals over to DAZ, will outweigh any negatives by doing so. HiveWire will still exist, HiveWire will still produce for our Human figure line, and our animals as well. We will still be happy to publish your supporting content to our HW3D animals, and whatever else you as an artist would like to publish that is of value.


On behalf of Lisa, Paul, Alisa, and the HiveWire team, we thank you all for your understanding. As always, we are grateful to you, our friends, artists, allies, and community members, for your strong support and confidence in us. We have not abandoned you. It's just that some of you who wish to acquire our animals from here forward will have to make those acquisitions via our new publishing partner, through the DAZ store. We move ahead with excitement for this new way of expanding our audience. We move ahead with excitement to work closely and in partnership with DAZ in a way that benefits both companies.
 

Chris

HW3D President
Staff member
Co-Founder
DAZ is currently scheduled to release the HW3D Big Cat, Cougar, Cub, and the (CWRW) Panther maps Monday morning the 10th.
 

Chris

HW3D President
Staff member
Co-Founder
Does this include Ken's birds?

No, Ken and his wonderful products are staying put.

This only directly affects the HiveWire original animals that we've created. Those just happen to be connected to Laurie Prindle/CWRW because of her wonderful texture maps, materials, and product imagery.
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
Thanks, Chris!

A few of Laurie's animal products will also be moving over to support the animals being there - as Chris noted, the Black Panther is one.
 

Glitterati3D

Dances with Bees
No, Ken and his wonderful products are staying put.

This only directly affects the HiveWire original animals that we've created. Those just happen to be connected to Laurie Prindle/CWRW because of her wonderful texture maps, materials, and product imagery.

Thanks.
 

Rae134

Renowned
CV-BEE
Contributing Artist
Does that mean if we've purchased the products here, that they will appear in the DAZ product library? (like the products that moved over from RDNA did). Just worried about missing out on any future updates.
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
No, I will be updating the products for those who bought the animals here, just as always. So, keep tabs on the product update thread. They'll be the same zip name they are now, but they'll be updated.

Update thread is here - if you're not subscribed to it, you can do so by clicking "Watch Thread" at the top right of the forum thread:

Product Updates - Main Notification
 
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Miss B

Drawing Life 1 Pixel at a Time
CV-BEE
DAZ is currently scheduled to release the HW3D Big Cat, Cougar, Cub, and the (CWRW) Panther maps Monday morning the 10th.
Thanks Chris, as I much prefer hearing this news from you than seeing it cold in a DAZ newsletter, though I rarely do much more than a quick cursory look at DAZ newsletters these days. Now I'm going to have to pay more attention to them.
 

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
Wow! Your animals rock Chris. I'm not surprised they would want them. Especially the big cat here is far better than the Daz big cat. I'm a little concerned because I do animations for your cat and horse. Will people be able to find them here when they are over at Daz?
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
I don't think that will be any problem, Janet :).

There will still be lots of products for our animals here. Remember, there are products here for other products sold at DAZ, and people find them :).
 

Stezza

Dances with Bees
I guess all future animal releases won't work in Carrara like they do now... :eek:

anyways good luck and I hope it works out for you all.
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
I guess all future animal releases won't work in Carrara like they do now... :eek:

Not sure why you'd think that, Stezza? The only thing changing is where things are being sold, not the products themselves.
 

JOdel

Dances with Bees
HW Honey Bear
They can recognize quality over at DAZ when they see it. Even if they don't always produce it themselves.

The cats (big and little) have been periodically turning up in their marching banner ads in the store for some time now, since they pull those images from the gallery. I'll bet they got awfully fed up with having to admit that the cat people were asking about isn't in their store.
 

Stezza

Dances with Bees
Not sure why you'd think that, Stezza? The only thing changing is where things are being sold, not the products themselves.

because that's the trend with products at Daz.. :(

slowly but surely wipe out the Carrara and Poser base compatibility....
 

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
We plan to keep doing what we're doing, so please don't worry about that, Stezza.

Chris will still be posting his WIP threads, and we'll still be listening to all of the input you folks give us.

:flower02:
 
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