Possibility1. Aviary grants free access to Users to create new content. The creators then puts content out for customers to purchase. When a customer purchases content a small fee is applied to each purchase and that fee goes back into Aviary is income.

Possibility 2. Aviary grants free access to Users to create new content. Part of the agreement between Aviary and User states that: Aviary will get a percentage of any and all items sold through market place.

As users submit more items on the market place and more customers begin to purchase content revenue goes up. Might be slow at the start but as Shelley said this will open up the market for new artists and allow small / medium businesses to purchase work at affordable prices.

I look forward to seeing all the tools. Remember this is not just graphic content but text, audio, video publishing suite. This could lead to so many places. Just think…

A group of friends wants to create a comic book. It could be done.
Someone else wants to write a cook book. It could be done.
I have always wanted to make my own music CD. It could be done.

If this gets off the ground (I really hope it does) it could possibly be the next step in business. I’m fairly sure that Avi has thought out the possible future in this. So far his touch has been Gold lets hope he gets a trifecta with this one. I’m also sure that he will have a very large user base right out of the gate. MANY many users at Worth1000 are slavering of the upcoming release of Aviary.
Done rambling.

This article on TechCrunch really caught my eye. Apparently, the team from Worth 1000 have a new project called Aviary.

Aviary will provide both a marketplace for creative professionals to showcase and sell their artwork as well as a set of 14 online…

I think sometimes, people can unconsciously catch a whiff of the catch-22. It’s impossible to get stuck somewhere. The elements that cause the notions of defeat are probably not real. As in, if something seems really original to you, it’s only because you don’t know of anything else like it or the building blocks of it. If everyone in the world blinked at the same time and thought about Myspace being pointless… Myspace would disappear and nobody would exactly know where it went to.

If nothing else, perhaps the community can explore better with especial catered tools. If the whole scheme self-sustains in the ways needed for the hierarchy of authors to feed; win.

wut?

We actually have a fully functional working 3D modeller at this point, not just a renderer. A flex-based 3D modeller is far from inconceivable. As a developer you should realize that 3D in Flash was generally considered inconceivable until Papervision came out, and now new innovations based on PV3D emerge every day.

We’re definitely pushing the limits and quite proud of that fact. We wouldn’t have taken on this project if didn’t.

Best,
Avi

So, now that I bought Flash CS3, Lightwave, Photoshop, Bryce Etc,, (poser lol)- what good is my computer beyond that license?

I am forever stuck trying to install legit! software (software I bought) so - even if this is a hint to the contrary - I really like the idea

Best

openstudio.media.mit.edu

It seems like Aviary is a souped-up, industrial strength version of openstudio — wonder if Aviary knows about this project?

The bring to market place is what could actually make something like this into a viable service. How many good graphics artists are there out there that have a hard time getting their stuff into a market? And how many just plain regular folk would like a place to get such graphics without paying an arm and a leg.

Even if the people have Photoshop, I could see them eventually porting their work into this environment primarily to be able to tie into such a marketplace. True, the online tools need to be able to handle all the processes for re-creating such work, but that is not an impossible task.

Additionally, this group has a built-in customer base on which to both extract ideas for development and use for testing. That’s not something to discount, most Web 2.0 applications don’t have a built-in customer base before the tool was developed.

It really is that mapping of creative tools and marketing that makes this stand out.

Will this attract the already employed graphics artist? Unlikely. But this will open up a nice niche market for the skilled but new and/or underemployed or freelance graphics artist AND the small/medium business or personal site owner who doesn’t have a lot of bucks looking for some graphics to incorporate into their site (without worries of being sued for ‘theft’), or music to embed into their podcast or YouTube video.

Adobe is not losing sleep because this isn’t a competitor. Nor is it a competitor to Inkscape or GIMP. This is something different. Whether it ends up becoming successful or not, at a minimum, it is innovative.

And, OK yeah, I love the bird theme.

Aviary is a new project made by Worth1000. They plan on developing flex application for online use by artists and create an ecosystem in which artists using their products also post their products.
The project is quite a big one and a hard one to…

If their aim is to be a marketplace, why would an artist will use this service instead of istockphoto for selling rights, and why would an artist use this service instead of threadless and cafepress for selling their artwork on products. No professional artist will loose its valuable time by editing his artwork online if the product has no superiority. Are there any superiorities? If yes, than i would like to know it. And if it is worth, than we will definetly use it. Otherwise this will be just a playground for amateurs.

And one thing more, 30-40 percent of the startups in the web 2.0 boom are trying to make offline solutions online without thinking the value to the consumer. For example, if you have a practical and quick online software that edits your photos in just a few steps and not require you to be a “Professional Adobe User”, that has a value to the end customer (e.g. picnik). But if you are targeting professional people be ready for the challenge and promise a very superior thing.

Those programs took 20 years to develop, starting with 20-year-old hardware and no clue as to what features were wanted, or even possible. Not to mention, those are desktop apps. They had to work on a huge variety of machines. Aviary has to work on one well known server.

“after countless feedback with users, betas, improvements…”

Again, Aviary is server-based. Feedback-based improvement on server-based software is a completely different ballgame than what goes on in a company the size of Adobe or Microsoft. If Adobe wants to fix a bug or add a feature, they have to rewrite and test the code, press the CDs, redesign the boxes, ship to the stores, and hope their customers are willing to shell out a couple hundred dollars to upgrade to something they may or may not feel is worth all that money. If Aviary wants to fix a bug or add a feature, they write the code, test it, and implement. Done.

“it’s like wanting to get Google market’s share and product range in one year”

Say the same thing to Amazon, who wanted B&N’s market share and product range in a short time.

“Server-based.” Remember that phrase. It’s important.

because even moderate graphics work is indeed resource intensive???

you can download the gimp or inkscape for free, no one has to pay money for decent graphical tools

for anyone who makes their living in graphics, they already use photoshop, why would they ditch it for photoshop written in flex, which coincidentally will be an even larger resource hog??

adobe is not losing sleep tonight

MS, Adobe, Autodesk et al must be ’slightly’ concerned about the future of their cash cows.

–Kevin Fairchild

@Brian - I too hope that Hummingbird has a quick learning curve.

GGmike, its an online tool.