How much time do you spend to finish your job?

[GI Dude]

Hi every one

I have a question for you all

How much time do you spend to finish your job?

I know it varies depending on the complexity and the the type of job requested, but let suppose that you are going to model and render a small house (around 300 sq. meters) and your client have requested 3 renders...

This example took me about 6-8 hours to complete, needs a little work to finish overall, so i was wondering how much time is enough...

Thank You.

[Charles Gaushell]

Alex,

That is a loaded question as everyone works at a different pace. For me, I would allow about 4 hours to finish everything I see (with finished illustrations). But for others in my office it would take them 8-12 hours - but they also have a lot less experience.

Planning the approach on the front end is the key.

[ihabkal]

it would be also usefull to know whith which software you're that fast...and if you had 2D cad or printed cad to start from...

[GI Dude]

I did it from rough sketches...

[ihabkal]

yeah because I always waste a couple of hours or more when the client send prints instead of the actual digital cad...

[ecastillor]

Well...it depends on the project of course, but if you ask me, it can take from 3-4 hours to 3-4-weeks...months...years!

as time passes and software developes, I end up going back to retouch or re-render the projects I really like and want to show in my portfolio, but I usually take about 5 hours on a small house render, with enough quality to sell.

I posted this 5 hour sample a few days ago....
http://forums.cgarchitect.com/showth...ighlight=hours

[GI Dude]

nice and smooth....

i like it

Vray? or Brazil?

[ecastillor]

Vray....
I never got around to mess with brazil...perhaps someday...what do you use?

[GI Dude]

I use Brazil... Works fine for me and its rock solid, i've tried the vray demos but my 3d Viz Became unstable after that... anyway i upgrade viz to 2005 and brazil to support that version...

[silviapalara]

It greatly depends on the project.
For example, I have spent several hours just cleaning up the mesh that the client gave me, at the point that it would have almost being better if I had modelled it to begin with...
Also it depends on what render engine you use. I do all my work with Mental Ray, which is REALLY SLOW, which is why I will be looking into Turtle soon. Plus it depends what techniques you use to render: HDRI is the slowest to render for Mental Ray, while Global Illumination can go pretty fast.
It also depends on how much photorealism you want to achieve, since the more realism you want, the more render-tweak-render work you'll be doing.
And obviously it depends on your machine, how many processors you have, how much memory, etc.