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I'd be nervous to even fart if I was sitting there!

Just bought that today - haven't heard it yet but will give it a go now. Listening to Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion. Class!

Ban him! Liking the new Animal Collective stuff a lot just now.

I agree. It will be a serious problem for most of us if it remains unchecked. Maybe we're looking at it the wrong way-I could get the Chinese firm who keep emailing me for work to do all my projects for a small percentage of my fees and I could just put my feet up!

MAKING everyone go to the same level? How? Through concern for others? When and how did this happen exactly? Open your eyes-those doors were opened for financial gain-not through philanthropy. Luckytohaveher was right-what you are witnessing here is capitalism combined with the inevitable outcome of globalisation. These people are making a living by undercutting their competition without losing profit. That is as close as you will come to a definition of capitalism. Their idea of acceptable profit, when you include currency exchange and national earnings, is completely different from yours or mine so, if they can compete with us via the internet or good marketing, we have no option but to accept it. 9 out of 10 of my clients have no concerns about their actual outlay or the socio-political results of any of their commissions. They only worry about product (my renders) over profit (sales generated by my renders.) Whether I cost £200 or £2000 is meaningless compared to sales of £2,000,000.

It's a Motherf***er by Eels. Beautiful song and great title.

Really nice. There's something very appealing to me about the light levels in the middle one.

For a long time I thought a vray was a type of building because of all the 'vray renders' you get here.

They look good Andy. I'd try to get stronger ambient lighting, especially on the roads and pavements. The guy looks like he's been cut out of the Beano. No offence-I just don't like those prop people. Did you get partial payment? Hopefully things will get better soon.

The famous Suurland site comes to mind (http://www.suurland.com/) He does other types of vehicles apart from cars but I'm not sure there's anything else. Got this from a google search..... http://www.the-blueprints.com/ It has mobiles and other stuff.

I love these renders but the interior in particular is beautiful.

There's something very appealing about the warm realism you have going on here. I just can't help but echo the 'wanting to scroll down' comment. If there was nothing you could do about changing the camera height/aspect then that's fair enough, I suppose. Client knows best of course I think a bit of blow out on the exterior and a little contrast would improve the image.

Wow that's some house! Nice render.

True but it's not restricted to America, is it?

Nice stuff Andy. Although I think the flare on the street lamp is a bit much, I really like the feel of the first one-it has a Winter warmth thing going on that they try so hard to achieve in Christmas cards. You didn't even have to resort to snowflakes or kids in scarves