erikpilon

Yes well... I have only given them a price like this: "I will charge 26,000 dirhams" Then followed the email with: "Oh no! I hope you didn't email the client yet, I missed an extra 0 in there while typing, the original price is 260,000 dirhams"

i agree to all. Will fix these. As for the sunlight, I can't seem to find a way to make the sun hit the ground like the image, unless the sun is straight at the top, but as we can see from the image, there are no windows on the ceiling. If the original image is a 3D render, do you think IES lights were put above the floor to mimic lights coming from the windows?

Studio/Institution: Personal Client: N/A Genre: Commercial Interior Software: Maya, Vray, CrazyBump, Photoshop Website: http://www.erikpilon.com Description: Hello guys, this is the first time I'm actually completing an interior, without quitting halfway through and starting another project. Here is the ORIGINAL IMAGE that I am trying to replicate. I think the original image might be a 3D render also, which could actually help solve my question: What am I missing from my render to make it look more realistic? There has been no render passes done yet to tweek shadows and etc, this image comes out straight from Maya's render. Thanks for the perspectives!

Well, for my first job, I expected to go through some sort of hell to learn from. Still waiting for it to happen, but it should all be good. In the end, I'll be able to see if this is something I actually want to do for the long run, or go back to film. Although I think I would enjoy this just as much. Does anyone here have any example images/videos to share with prices attached to them, for future reference? I would really love to compare quality and duration of work and see the worth of them all. Personal work or other would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the replies guys, I really wish my question was posted 3 days ago when I wrote it.. and not moderated and posted yesterday... Simply, competing against the many desperate skilled Asians and Indians here is hard for me, they can do extremely good work for so so cheap, at $4/hr. Many of these companies here would rather get the cheapest price than quality, and that's why the 4$/hr people get more jobs than the ones asking for the regular amount. So it was fear of losing the contract I guess and desperate for money, been screwed more than once in the job market because of this exact reason. I emailed the agency yesterday morning asking for $8,000. But after reading all of your posts, I emailed this morning again to mention to their client that I forgot to add an extra 0 in there. I wouldn't be hiring many people, I am primarily a filmmaker and have done graphic animations and videos for commercials and short/feature films. 3D has been a past-time of mine for many years though, this is my first time going into a paid job for my 3D. So doing the first 45 seconds of the video will be a breeze, last night I already went ahead and out of boredom created the earth that was supposed to be the intro of the video. Tonight I'll animate it and have it matched to the Google Maps image. It really seems that $100,000 - $250,000 for a 3 minute video is so much, laughable, and exaggerated, but this is me not knowing the value of this type of work, do you guys really make contracts in those ranges?! How much do you think I would bring home from this amount after all the expenses? I moved to Dubai from Canada in May, so I'm really new to the job market, architecture, and interior design, so I thought I would cut the price down so I may prove myself to them/myself. Anyways, I will let all of you know what they answered back. By the way, what program do they use in the video I posted? This does not seem like Maya, are they using SketchUp?

Yes, DMC noise threshold has been at 0.02, it really was the Skyportal, even at 32 samples, the grain would just move position...

Hello guys, I picked-up a contract for making a 3D visualization walkthrough of 2 new apartment buildings and office building attached to the same base, being built in Dubai. The guy told me that he wanted to have a similar video as link provided below. First we see the earth with clouds, then zooms to a Google maps and we see a blueprint style of the buildings with descriptions of distance like, exactly like the first 45 seconds of this video. Then for 2 minutes we see the buildings being built with surroundings like the video here, starting at 1:15. Then 1 minute, typical walkthrough of lobby, apartment rooms, etc. Now, the thing is, they only have blueprints of the exterior and it's being built already, and they said they have no idea how the interior will look like.... and that it's up to me using 3D, to figure out how it'll look like from the inside, oh boy.... but still pretty cool. The guy told me the budget is tight, and considering he wants small boats and people walking around, and I would need to model the surrounding buildings and a ferris wheel, no idea how much work this will all be, but I have 60 days to accomplish. I will probably have to buy/download/outsource models, then the render farm... I will be asking for 5,000 USD, I'm alone on this project right now. I'm pretty sure this isn't enough. But what do you guys think? I calculated, working 4-5 hours per day (after full-time job) for 60 days would come to about 16$/hr. Yeah... I'm pretty sure this isn't enough after calculating. Let me know boys and gals!

Thank you very much for your help. I figured the settings were too high by the render time, but I cranked up everything on purpose to see what was the exact problem, and even with everything on high, the problem still happened. There was no glass in my windows, but after putting one, I noticed the lighting decreased dramatically, still need to play around with that. Looking at the link you sent me for the walkthrough now, hopefully after paying for a render farm I won't end-up seeing that flickering people keep talking about. Will see how things go! Again, thank you Corey.

Note to self, don't use Skyportal.

Hello friends, and new found family! First time poster. I have moved from Mental Ray to Vray yesterday, yay ! Learning it is so not as complicated as I thought. But I'm having the same issue for the same scene as I had with Mental Ray... Attached is the rendered picture, I think Vray goes over the rendering 3 - 4 times, and the 2nd last pass of rendering is perfect, then it goes ahead and does another final pass, and this grain shows up again. Sadly. Working in linear (not affect color, 2.2 gamma, work in linear, etc.), cranked up the Sun's Shadow Subdivs to 96, Primary Bounce is set to Irradiance Map at "Very High Quality" at a Subdivs of 600 (800 looks exactly the same), and clicked on "Enhance Details". Secondary Bounce is set to Brute Force, Subdivs 32, Depth 3. I'm starting an architectural walkthrough project next week, and I think this is the only question I need resolved to accomplish future projects... Thanks a bunch friends!