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I think there would have to be some sort of 'do not compete' clause in the contract. If not, work is work and you will most likely lose one of the two clients when it's all said and done... maybe even both if neither of them wins.

Momento360 is very affordable and easy to use. https://www.momento360.com/ Generate 360s from your renderer of choice, load them up to the site and create your hotspots for navigation. I have created walkthrus in less than a day using Enscape to cook out fast spherical images.

AXYZ is the best quality for the best price and you might want to consider a subscription using Anima.

Funny how a spam post brought this discussion back to my feed. It is interesting to read this discuss now that 5+ years has past. Those who said Unreal, congrats! Now we can see who had the crystal ball.

Always get a deposit and take it as a lesson learned. We all have had our fair share of bad clients and no-payers. Never start work without a deposit and never do anything for free! Read Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro.

These look very cool. I would post under General, this forum gets very little traffic.

I believe this is one of the only reasons the AIA exists and architects keep paying their insane fees to be members. They'll lobby and keep it from happening. Viz artists don't have something like this and this is why it is the Fiverr rendering is now a thing.

The thing I am most worried about are the people on Fiverr creating renderings with unlimited revisions for $60. https://www.fiverr.com/share/6YPZ6r Granted, you get what you pay for and I am sure communication is a nightmare, but clients are still referencing these prices and honestly, I am wondering why I don't just hire these guys to do all the work and I just collect a fee for managing the project, sit around drinking coffee all day watching Netflix.

And most clients will say fast and cheap and then want 97 revisions, so have an iron-clad contract to address revisions to the animation with sign-offs before final rendering.

I too am a SketchUp VRay guy but also use Lumion and Enscape because this is the way of things in an architecture office these days. If I was in your situation and rebooting perse, I would take the above advice and learn Substance and Unreal Engine. You can still model in SketchUp if thats your comfort zone and just hit the pavement sunning with Unreal - you can even looking into VRay for Unreal honestly. This is where things are heading and this is where the paying clients will be. The one-off, progress renderings are now being done in house so you need to push skills far beyond that and VR is the next frontier for us.

I think you need a new skydome for each scene. SketchUp alone will not remember this. Just make a copy, right click, make-unique, put it on a layer that will be on only in that scene.

To actually give you answer to your questions, here we go. 1. Roughly what do you charge per hour for ArchViz modeling Working on the side, in my basement, doing the level of renderings you posted. Maybe $150 each. Keep the details simple and consider the fact that you will most likely not get a W9 from a job under $600. "Good, Fast, Cheap - Pick 2" , is what I always say. I think you will be in the fast/cheap area, which is fine. 2. Roughly what would you charge for a residential visualization for a 1600 sq/ft home, an interior, and an exterior Me? I would charge a lot more than $150. I have 15 years of training, an architecture degree, and my visual eye is probably worth more, to be honest. This all comes with time though. 3. What would you charge for a full interactive (walkthrough) model of the same 1600 sq/ft home Be careful of this trap. Full Interactive? A full VR model? some 360s that create a virtual walk-thru? interactive, like you can change out materials and finishes live? This needs to be defined better but some full VR interactives can run in the thousands of dollars and take a lot of know-how. This all takes time and experience. If you have a passion for it, you will get there, just keep learning and get as much experience as you can without totally selling your soul. No $5 renderings on Fiverr. That website should be burned to the ground. You said something about getting rich - maybe jokingly. I am not sure what your current professional background is but I want to be clear. You are not going to get rich doing this, espcially in the US. That's not why any of us are here or ending up in this profession. I think there may be some misunderstanding that we are like architects (they don't make that much either). There are a few studios that can charge quite a bit but understand those firms have dozens of people working on a project, massive overhead, etc. I repeat - NO ONE IS GETTING RICH IN THIS INDUSTRY.

As a person who has both Lumion and Enscape I would tell you to save the $3000 and get Enscape. The latest version has some very nice improvements and they have begun to compete with Lumion by including a library of proxies. Lumion looks great on the outside and that I always get into it and realize its missing something. It's actually quite limited for the price tag and don't be confused by the word real-time. A high quality animation with all the bells and whistles turned on will still take 10+ hours to export.

Check this article out. https://evermotion.org/articles/show/10254/extract-panoramas-from-google-streetview