arseniytestin

Added the CAD of lady ballerina's lodgings to previous post. All constructive critique is very welcome, no worries. You are totally right about the baroqueness. The clients is Russian. They love Byzantine themes. I was a little aghast, for a while. But obstacles are there to be overcome, so I embraced the Gypsy thing, diluted it with some 1800 European spirit and put the Philippe Stark's Ghost by the IKEA table. Voilá xD

You are welcome, George! This first giveaway was improvised, next ones will have more usable value. Maybe already divided in Max-Maya shaded and textured files. Hah, the clock is correct, rushing tiger has keen eye: it is meant to be a vintage piece, not a working one. What do you find disagreeable with the Bedroom? I am the Architect, so I can explain every nook of my project) The one with raving baroqueness? It is the bedroom of the daughter of the client: she is leading ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater, she is super baroque and girly. I gave her a *French-Theater backstage-old New Orleans* theme. Gilded paintings (of herself) on the wall opposite, naval Teak floor and vintage cast iron bathtub in bathroom. Posh stuff. Right outside her room she has also got a 80m2 dancing floor O_O

Thank you for the kind words, Ernest! I hope my models can be of use to your studio) All future models my studio makes shall go freely available, when clients and copyright allow. Keeping them in archives is sad and makes no one the richer. As for the two days: ahaha, I have short attention span, so we preferably take compact projects that I can tiger through in sixteen hours. It is my own little challenge)

Hello, colleagues! We are celebrating a milestone of followers on FB, and there are 24 lovely models of designer furniture to download, for free) OBJ files, collapsed, scaled and mapped, so everybody can use them. Shading is an intimate thing, so it is up to you. Feel free to download Here and put them to good use. Best, Arseniy

A good long term goal is to create actual human relations with the clients. When they can see your real worth as person and as artist, then the money you charge them is no longer a concern: they will gladly pay for both quality And psychological comfort. Be a strong, self confident, humanly rich artist and your clients will never even think of saving some bucks on a cheap outsource. They actually end up suggesting you to Raise prices, if they see that quality overreaches the cost)) They get attached to You. I totally see the problem of getting those clients first, the first bite. Well, here you can only rely on the quality of your portfolio. Charge accordingly, ignore completely the competitors from wildly different Countries and markets. Let the Karma work. In Germany and England, where I do most work, fairly ordinary render guys charge (and get) 300€ per day. And 16 h are usually plenty, for one person, to finish easily a small architectural or advertising shot. So 600€ sell effortlessly a good render. And with mega masters charging as much as 5.000€ per shot, you can easily figure out your own niche and rate) Besides, cheap prices attract cheap clients, that will wreck your nerves and downgrade your portfolio. May you find soon your perfect clients! Viel Glück!

If Nuke price turns you off (and it does >__>) you can still try the free clone Natron. It is way slower than Nuke, especially with floating point images, but for still images this is something one can bear with. And its tools are real clones of Nuke. Even the shortcuts) A gamma 0.454 at the end of the Natron flow will get you where you want. As a side note: it is not a big deal if the passes combined together look different from the Beauty pass. You are comping them with the very aim of Changing that Beauty, edit each pass separately and achieve a very different look. Having the passes matching the beauty is definitely not the ultimate point of compositing) If they match - cool, if they don't - whatever.

Hello, Adam! It is a very promising render, keep it up! You got great technical feedback already, what you can also do is create some theatrical tension. If you keep it that dark and contrasted, give a special meaning to that triangle of light on the table. Either slip something inside, half way into, that will cast an interesting shadow, or bring the fruit so close to the light edge that it will get a strong bounce light, while staying in the dark. Waiting to see your next works!