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  1. To the company posting this... Good luck with that. You get what you pay for.
  2. +1 on this as well. We typically end using custom shot stuff for foreground of restaurant scenes as the existing libraries don't cut it.
  3. Happy to see this post. I was not aware of your company prior to this. 1. Primarily tech office and residential condo with a solid mix of public spaces added in. 2. Mixed Race, Mixed Gender, Ages 25 to 55. 3. 40 to 70 years old. This category barely exist in collections available for purchase. 4. The lighting setups you are using have hard directional light that is creating hard shadows even though most of your people appear to be for indoor use. This will make them more difficult for compositing as often the hard shadow will need to be feathered to achieve a look that appears to be lit softer. Your PNG's also appear to be graded fairly hard. Ii would be good to use a lighter hand on the curve so that the blacks and whites are not being pushed to their limits. The final grading needs to happen during compositing, not during masking. Keeping the base image contrast more flat leaves more wiggle room for final product.
  4. Even the best 3d models don't look as real as high quality composites done with care. 3d is a lot better than it used to be but it isn't close to what can be achieved with composting.
  5. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
  6. This is the way to handle these situations. If you are asked to design a space you see it as a chance to show that your skillset is more than a commodity. I would not just make something up unless you have worked with the client before and you guys are in an understanding of what that means. Otherwise you will likely get burnt and begin to lose profit trying to figure out what the client actually wants. Start with style boards that identify the mood and feel of the area that needs to be designed. After the client approves those implement the layout of the design using whatever models or massing you have on hand. If the client is comfortable with the way the style board will be implemented then you can begin purchasing/modeling/contracting the necessary pieces for that design to happen. At the end of the day you made it up but you had the clients approval every step of the way.
  7. You are correct. Credit is usually not enforced successfully. This is because many are not making the effort to enforce it successfully. This starts by adding the line in your contract stating that you or your firm receives credit when the rendering is published. This finishes with you placing a call or email to the websites that are using your image without credit. Usually these sites are very accommodating and will add your name. Why do they do this... because this is standard practice in journalism. How often do you see a photo on a blog or in a magazine that has small print that read "Photo by ...." The image credit should be no different when it comes to renderings. In fact if you don't include/ask for the request for credit then often the architecture firm distributing the image will be given credit for the work in the medium where it is published. When that big project you are working on goes live to websites, blogs, magazines, newspapers, etc.. you will want your name associated with that work. (Evermotion is a different beast. Evermotion is a royalty free content provider which is very different from a studio that specializes in commissioned work. The business model of Evermotion has more in common with Getty Images than with a DBox/Neoscape or even a smaller studio.)
  8. I would love to see how the SSS shader turns out.
  9. http://goo.gl/H9tYi You will be hired on your personality and skill not your profile photo. The story that sex sells will likely always be true but personality, skill, and ability are the traits that are needed to excel in the viz industry.
  10. Key in the number you want for the chamfer. The 1/16 is just a display unit and not a system unit.
  11. How many invoices and reminder emails / phone calls were made at the time of the invoice?
  12. Personally I would let it go, better to clear your head of it so you can move on.
  13. I would start by finding a photo of the type of reflection you are trying to get from your floor. Any direction we can give you is subjective. Posting a photo of what you want to replicate will give us an objective way to approach the solution. Off hand though I would say you need to start by increasing the intensity of your sky. If you are trying to create the look I envision that you are going after then I would say you need to crank the intensity of that sky up and/or increase the reflective-ness of the floor.
  14. I would do a Google search to see if there are statute of limitations to the contract you had with your client. A quick search turned up this though I don't know what type of contract it is referring to:
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