artmaknev

The industry has definitely evolved in the past 10 years! From my observations, since I started working professionally in the archviz from 2007 til now, the industry is branching off into 2-3 completely separate paths. In my opinion, there will be always a need for photoreal Real-Estate imagery that cannot be replaced by realtime or lumion software. Because in real estate, we are selling the lifestyle, the clients prefer more emotional, story telling images that can sell you the house, so the main hero in this branch is the image. The image that will be printed on billboards, magazines and displayed on the websites. The extra gimmicks (AR, VR, animation) are extras that might not have the same effect as the main selling image. For this extra gimmicks, I think there will be a specialized field, so the client might even outsource to another company and give the stills to another. So far we have two very related branches, that can still be separated: Branch one - Real Estate (highly specialized on stills to sell the lifestyle) Branch two - AR/VR/Animation (company that provides the extra gimmicks) The third branch - is the situation that you have mentioned regarding architects and designers using new quick software such as Lumion to speed up their designing process. The quality of Lumion has greatly improved in recent years, but it still far from high quality real-estate imagery... and I do not think it can ever claim that field, it is not specialized in that direction. I am sorry to say that, but I think the third branch is going to be a bit hard for the archviz artist to survive in...because if all the architects can do good enough visuals and if a company only needs this kind of level, then why the need for the archviz person? Of-course if the company is big enough it will always have an archviz department, because thats what big companies do. However, for midsize and smaller architectural firms I think archviz artist will be an extinct creature. PS: By the way, hand drawing is making a comeback, I see more and more renderings that are a mix of sketchup + hand drawing. I think this is some kind of an exotic archviz trend that only a few will be able to specialize and make quite a nice income!

Usually it just takes 3-5 of your best works to get the attention of employer and ask you for the interview or more work samples for specific requirements. You can show a few good clay renderings at the end of your pdf, but front should always be 3-5 of your best works.

3dsky dominates all my searches lol, I sometimes have a dilemma to search on your engine and knowing that I will eventually end up on 3dsky website or just go directly to 3dsky but maybe a day will come when I buy something from turbosquid!

From my experience attending interviews and interviewing prospective empolyees, most of the resume / portfolio collecting job goes through office secretary or assistant, then the secretary will print all the pdf folios and resumes and have a quick meeting with the director and the senior artists to review all the candidates. In rare cases, if time allows, or if its a really green tree loving office, they will open up a web browser and type in your website But don't expect it to happen in most cases... Sometimes they don't have time to look at online portfolios, so if the ad says to send pdf work samples then you should follow what the ad says, and include a website link in your resume or portfolio. Once you have an interview with the company, they would be happy to see your website live.

How many revisions do you provide? Do you use only the models from library or model custom furniture based on customer requests? I think the price is way too low...

will be cool in real life

Hi guys, just saw today new hardware for sale already which can be perfect for renderpockets! New skylake possibilities, 65W cpu + ITX board with 32GB ram support. i7-6700 - $329 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117560 ASRock H170M-ITX/DL LGA 1151 - $90 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157669 DDR4 32GB RAM - $265 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231973

I am also eyeing one of those two laptops, XPS15 and Asus UX501 (https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ZenBook_Pro_UX501/) The Asus looks like a clone of macbook for $1000 less

Just to make it clear, there is no timed syncing in dropbox, but there is a way to turn off automatic syncing and use other software such as syncbackpro to backup from local drive to dropbox twice a day. So this is what I will do: 1) Dedicate internal HDD for dropbox (2TB drive) - I don't feel safe if dropbox folder is also on the same HDD.. and its also using twice as much space. 2) Turn off dropbox auto sync 3) Use other software to sync between local HDD to dropbox HDD once or twice a day 4) Dropbox will sync to the cloud and to my other PC at the office Did I get it right? Have you used NAS with dropbox?

Thanks for advice, I think I will just dedicate HDD on each PC for dropbox, so both HDDs in different locations are in sync with each other and the cloud. And I will map the HDDs to a letter "X" on both locations, so I can work from X letter, hopefully it will keep the map paths easy to manage. External HDD is not good idea as I read on dropbox FAQ. I will just run a local backup daily to external HDD. Thanks for suggesting SyncToy, I am actually using SyncBackPro right now, it does same thing I think. Scott - I couldn't find a way to change dropbox sync settings, it doesn't let me sync twice a day, it appears to be syncing constantly... Where do you go to change those settings?

I had no idea about timed sync, it sounds great! So basically, working directly from Dropbox really means working from your local drive that dropbox is linked to? is that correct? and then this local drive can be backed up twice a day to the cloud? So I am thinking about buying dedicated portable drive (2TB) and link the dropbox to it, is that a good idea? I just need to find the best mobile solution.

I am working in two locations, and it is a bit time consuming to always backup stuff from one location and then resume work from another place... especially updating map paths. I was wondering, if anybody ever tried working directly from Dropbox, it looks like Dropbox is saving everything to a local hard drive as a copy and then syncs everything to the cloud. I am thinking about fully uploading my entire library and works folder so everything can be synced between two computers (home and office) and backed up to the cloud? Right now, I am uploading almost 1TB of data, estimated time is 45 days!! ouch! But I hope once it syncs with the cloud, I can then work directly from dropbox, and will constantly sync new files between two machines. what is also nice is the dropbox app, I can always look for any file on my phone.

Maybe welding on import is activated, try to turn off "Weld nearby vertices".

Quadro cards are not really used for rendering, they are mostly used for viewport performance, but I still don't understand why people pay thousands for quadro when GTX can do almost same job or even better.

Yeah right now its a bit pricey... I think this system is more appropriate for small servers rather than renderfarm nodes, at least until the price drops a little. Thanks for sharing the news about SF600, I guess it can power Titan GPU now!