I was just thinking about how I enjoy using my gaming space's HD TV for displaying artwork during the games I run. I like providing visuals for monsters, magic items, landscapes, and NPCs. I'm not the best with Photoshop or 3D-rendering, though, and got to wondering if it would be marketable for Paizo to sell a subscription service that allows the generation of downloadable art.
By this, I mean having a Web-based, log-in interface (with maybe a scaled-down, free version for those who cannot afford a subscription) that would allow using models for monsters/races/classes/items/equipment/landscapes and pose these items with a selection of pre-made backgrounds. I would envision being able to render these visuals at a chosen resolution and download them. This would enable a referee to create some great resources for their game.
I think I know a little bit of how a system like this could work. "Hero Forge - Custom Miniatures" does something like this at https://www.heroforge.com/ and the various CAD-like modeling sites offer some online mapping tools (although none are particularly easy to use).
In the end, I think being able to have high-res output for game props/visuals would really be a potent product: one I would definitely subscribe to!
What do people think? Is this just a pipe-dream? Too complicated? Not enough appeal?
Yours,
Sylvan