I am a 3D modeler and some what of a animation artist, mostly I do CGI work and some freelance on the side.

I want to help out Indie developers more as I find that I enjoy that kind of work, how ever looking around I found that requests for 3D artist to work on games is low compared to other kind of 3D work.

a1.) So I was wondering HOW do indie developers look for artist to help them?

a2.) Has any one here ever recruited a artist and if you did how?

a3.) Do you prefer working with a single artist full time or do you switch, hiring a new artist for each job?

a4.) Would you prefer to buy your assets from a store, instead of work with a artist?

a5.) How much do you budget for art?

I know this is market research, however I believe it can help artist and other asset designers to work better with developers.

I have some freelance experience so if you have questions you can ask.

You've got to shift your expectations to match what you can actually afford to spend.

b1.)Does this mean you will even hire inexperienced artist for simple 3D models, like a intern freelancer?

b2.)What quality do you expect from what prices?

b3.)Do you use a similar approach to hire all staff?

I've avoided recruiting an artist as long as possible due to money constraints, but when I do, I will recruit as few as possible for the following reasons:

I have notice that the few developers I worked with used free assets from stores, because of money constraints.

b4.)This has lead to them creating code that works with the strange quirk of free assets, then needing to remake it for my own assets. I am wondering if there could be away around this?

b5.)Is the software a artist uses a large factor in recruiting?

I think this is the best possible solution, for developers to know the skills needed to make changes to assets.

Kickstarter?? Why would you think that? How would that work? People who've posted Kickstarter projects have their work laid out for them already, so I can't imagine a lot of them would be open to a side gig.

Patreon? I had to go look at it. It looks like it might, but you'd have to sort through to find those who are capable of video game work.

I think there is a misunderstanding, what I meant was that a artist looking to join a indie game could look at the games on Kickstarter and Patreon.

I browsed a few of them today and have seen that a few of these game projects do leave contact details, this would allow a artist to contact them and ask for work.

Steam greenlight could also be a way to find indie work, however there is a lot of games that look like they will never see the light of day.

The thing is that most people who come up with a good idea, then rush to a app store or a site like Steam, could benefit the most from having experienced artists. The problem with it is that these are the kind of contacts that expect you to work for a cut of the profit or exposure.

edit:

Now that I had time to think about it there is much more ways for a artist to find a developer. Game developers have very limited ways of finding a artist for there project, portfolio sites seem to be the most common way when searching the internet.

Has any one here ever recruited artist, from sites like Freelancer or Elance?

From what I have read these sites still have a bad reputation.