Hi earthur! Generally we prefer not using starter content in the submission unless it’s for presentation purposes, and if it consists of most of the submission’s content. If you have a lot of existing animations in addition to the starter content and are simply using the starter content as a base, that’s probably okay. But if the animation starter content are the only animations provided with your character, we’d prefer you didn’t include it.
I should add that we don’t require animations for character submissions, only that they’re at least rigged for animation, and preferably to the 4.8 skeleton if it makes sense for the character proportions.
Hi, ! We don’t currently support that kind of %-split payout on the Marketplace side. We may consider supporting it in the future (I personally think it’s a cool idea, and I’d like to make it work), but there are a lot of hurdles we’d need to clear to do that because of the complexities of legal agreements and remitting payments. In the coming weeks we’ll be rolling out a vastly simplified signup process to collect the legal and financial information for Marketplace submitters, and that’ll make a feature like this much easier to pitch. 