"I think it actually took longer to skin and have it looking right than to actually do the model."
Yeah, that's normal. And you didn't even create the texture image; imagine if you were painting the texture from scratch. Doing a textured, non-animated character model for example I routinely spend a day on the model, a day on the texture coordinates, and several days painting the texture image.
That's why I always have to bite by tongue when people pop up offering untextured models. It's nice that they want to give away assets (and that's why I don't post a criticizing message) but the model is the easy part; a textured model would be useful.
Yeah, that's normal. And you didn't even create the texture image; imagine if you were painting the texture from scratch. Doing a textured, non-animated character model for example I routinely spend a day on the model, a day on the texture coordinates, and several days painting the texture image.
That's why I always have to bite by tongue when people pop up offering untextured models. It's nice that they want to give away assets (and that's why I don't post a criticizing message) but the model is the easy part; a textured model would be useful.