paulr

Hi Just looking at how much more popular the 3dsmax forum is than say the maya forum on these forums. Wondering why that is? I come from a 3ds/3dsmax background although the last 10 years i`ve used Maya due to work (in games), so I`ve lost touch with 3dsmax over the years but still have a fond place for it in my heart and wondering if its something I should take a look at again now I`m moving more into architectural work. Hopefully you can share some unbiased views about why max is more popular. Thanks

Sure, I told them this was a one off and its a rush job although as it was my first job with them I didnt overcharge for it, I wanted to give a good impression. Anyway they seemed very happy with the results and are going to come back soon with some more plans for me to convert. I think this was an exception as the client only met with them 3 days before and they spent the weekend drawing up plans and they needed 3d renders to visualise what they would look like. I made sure to tell them when I handed them over that they were rush so werent great but they`ll do the job.

Thanks Curtis. Yes I basically gave them a flat rate per job and then anything more I`ll charge them for it. I just hope I havent shot myself in the foot with this architect by doing 3 designs in one day. They were desperate for a quick nextday job and their usual freelance artist was too busy so they asked me. They now think my work is much better and i`m alot faster so want to use me in future. But doing 3 in a day almost killed me. Just hope they dont think theyre going to get that from me for every job.

Thanks Rich (and Jonathan/Cameron). Thats helpful and kind of what I had in mind. I`ve completed my first job so that has straight away given me an idea of timescales involved. I`m now just trying to build up my library of items (models,textures,etc) so i`m a bit more prepared for things in future. btw Rich, I checked your site. I was impressed with the bed models in the renders for starplan. Any idea how they were created? Thanks again Paul

Hi All I`ve just started doing some work for a local architect and i`m trying to gauge how to charge. Can anyone with experience of this give us some ideas, for example do you charge just by the hour regardless of the job or do you charge depending on the job. For example would you charge differently for a house with interior design compared to a shopping complex. Also, if you had to do animation would you charge for rendering time? The problem is that this architect normally pays by the job or render but my argument is that it doesnt work like that as its alot quicker to do a simple exterior render than a detail interior job for example. But I dont want to price them out for my work, although they said my work was substantially better than the normal renders they get back. Thanks in advance Paul