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Lexual said:
Hi Equus, on Monday I'm starting a new position with a company of very talented people who produce 3D Visualisations for Architects, Landscapers and Developers at very competitive pricing, and with a quicker than average turnaround...
Good luck, but there are about 10 architectural visualisers for every architectural visualisation job going. I typically get 3-5 emails per week from people touting for this sort of work... most of whom don't stand a snowball in hell's chance of competing with the rates I can obtain from China or India.A really talented chap would create the designs and then integrate it into a First Person Shooter game, so you can get a better sense of the space walking around, but also be able to evaluate the design for both offensive and defensive purposes for the coming apocalypse.
Have you maintained garden space to get a helicopter in and out? Will the garage hold a tank? Are the parapet walls suitable for gun turrets and do you have line-of sight on all the approaches?
There's your USP.
Have you maintained garden space to get a helicopter in and out? Will the garage hold a tank? Are the parapet walls suitable for gun turrets and do you have line-of sight on all the approaches?
There's your USP.
Lexual said:
This company is based in Indonesia so I am confident they can be competitive.. I'd welcome the chance to send some more information and examples of completed jobs and to give you an idea of the rates..
I am not interested. Like I said, I am constantly pestered by people trying to sell me this sort of work. Furthermore, you are blatantly in breach of forum rules on advertising and I can live without that sort of pestering extending to happening on here.
Muncher said:
How much do you typically pay for that sort of thing? I have no idea of the going rate.
It depends on the complexity of the design and the level of presentation required of course, but where we provide the 3D model to be rendered (most of the time/work is in drawing up the 3D CAD model before it is then fed into a rendering package like Lumion by the architectural illustrator), costs to get it done in the Far East run from about £95 per image upward... it's an incredibly competitive market, and that figure represents several hours work for someone.I should stress that's just the rendering, though, and doesn't reflect the cost of the basic design work or 3D model. Cost to a client of the overall process typically works out at about £650 per image, when charged at commercial rates.
Edited to add: see below; I should have probably said 'per model' or 'per scene' or something... internal and external will usually be treated separately, but depending on the level of detail required, multiple views might have little extra cost beyond single views. Conversely, if you know you don't want certain views, you don't bother 'dressing up' that part of the model. It all depends what you're trying to achieve.
As soon as we get enough breathing space to have a realistic chance of learning the software, I'm going to be buying a copy of Lumion for ourselves, but to be honest it will be mainly as a toy to play with - there's absolutely no way we can compete commercially with in-house production of such images at UK rates of pay.
Edited by Equus on Friday 5th March 10:11
Muncher said:
That's reassuring, we had an entire site model built from scratch, 7 units, rendered, 12 images for £1,400 a guy in the UK. Petrolhead too.
Obviously costs come down for multiple images: once you've got everything set up (materials, textures, lighting, 'set dressing' such as people, furniture, vehicles and planting), it's little more than computer run-time to generate multiple views. And with the latest computers and top-end graphics cards, rendering is getting very quick - almost real-time... my first experience of ray-traced rendering was with a Commodore Amiga back in the 1980's, which I'd leave running overnight to render a single, simple image!
£1.400 for a 7 unit development is a perfectly reasonable price, though.
Edited by Equus on Friday 5th March 10:04
Was discussing my latest project with the agents this week-it probably won't be built until the end of the year but I figured if the stamp duty holiday continued I might get it rendered and marketed.
Not sure if it's just causing my more stress than it's worth to try and get it finished for September however.
Not sure if it's just causing my more stress than it's worth to try and get it finished for September however.
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