Not to beat a dead horse again, AJlynn already say it, but.......if you don't agree with what the blogger wrote, you're obviously not an architect, in an architectural office doing renderings. period.
Sorry Ernest, nothign against you, your post happens to be in the latest page so I quoted it
Yeah right, particurarly when a Principal comes at 3pm and tells you, "so and so isn't here" we need this rendering presentation for tomorrow at 12 o'clock. A project you have never heard or worked on, there's no drawings or plans or section or anything, just some bizarre sketch of what the Principal has in his mind, and of course, they don't want a "fuzzy sketchy look" they want is as it was already constructed and a picture was taken.
you're missing the point, again...the Principal wants to see an advance to do more changes at 430 pm because he has to leave to a meeting (remember he came to you at 3 pm) He think the computer does all eth work, you just move your mouse around and magically the rendering takes place.
yeah you're right there are countless changes in an architectural project, but this takes months, even years, we're talking about a 2 days rendering outta nothing.
, no dude, you're on your own, that's why you're doing the rendering in the first place and not someone else. Besides, the original article talks about different ways of doing something, If i model in 3d in CAD and render in MAX, maybe a coworker, knows C4d or skecthup only, so he can not help me.
You're right, and if what keeps me form being being homeless would be to clean bathroom, I'll gladly do it, but that's not the point. It's my understanding you have your own company, right?, well, imagine a client goes to your office and stands behind you all day looking at the screen what you're doing and asking for rendeirng previews every 10 minutes, instead of letting you work in peace, that's what he means with personal space. Will you complain or will you be glad becasue atleast you're not cleaning bathrooms?
Again you're not an architect in an architectural office, right?, it's not that 3d viz isn't important or a valuable knowledge, not at all. It's that you're an architect, and while you're trying to figure out why that frigging glass pane in the 10th floor isn't reflecting anything, the guy sitting next to you is learning how to detail a vapor barrier or a 2 hours fire separation wall assembly, and that's what you want to learn, not how a falloff reflection works.
same as above.
when it's time to promote or give more responsibilities, lets say managing a project, they will look for someone who was involved with that in otehr projects, not someone who only renders.
hehehe, but seriously, you can produce renderings better and faster than me, that's your proffession, I bet if someone asks you to fix their car, cut their hair, build their house you won't be able to do it, or you will, but it will take you a lot of time and it wont be as good as if a mechanic, stylist or contractor does it.