nicholaspapageorgiou

I hope people don't get put off trying their hand at freelance work or running your own business. There's so many variables in pricing a visualisation and ultimately you get what you pay for as a client. I often find clients turn to china when everyone else is busy, then they come running back when there on their 23rd set of amendments and the image is still looking as flat as a pancake!

this is a really sensitive subject but to conclude, i feel like theres almost 3 senarios in my world. Im london based but i have many US clients also who i charge the same price as my uk clients 1. Visuals produced in India, china etc. fast turnover and pretty cheap. 500 dollars to 1000, quality is consistent but not spectacular, and communication can be tricky depending on the individual. 2. Living in europe, If your work is of a high quality and your communication and working process matches that you can charge as a freelancer, anywhere between 1000 to 1800 pounds (uk) for a rendering- interior or exterior) large to small. 3. If your a large company like DBOX or someone similar you can charge anywhere from 1500 to 4000 depending on the scale. Big companies have big overheads hence there visuals are more expensive. Thats it basically. Of course everywhere is different, have no idea what the south american market is like or the american working for European clients but in London and in my working world this is where we are

i totally dont agree with suddenly putting your price up and changing your payment structure! especially with a long term client, all be it a bad one. The design industry is a small world and behaivior like that wount go down well if he then speaks to his other industry colleges to be honest, the best way of sorting him out is for you to get serious with your emails and your business. tell him you will only allow for a certian amount of amendments for the price, charge him if he changes the design mid way through or chooses a different chair suddenly. seriously, if hes late with payments, say 'your accountant has advised you, that a late payment passed the statutory 31 days will incure daily interest' as per your terms and conditions. if you dont have terms, write some! and include them in your fee proposal at the beginning of the project. I hope you learn from this though for future clients. If you begin disorganized and don't have a structure in place, clients will take advantage both with your time and money...you will get more respect if you act professionally from the start and be open about what you charge and what the client should expect

the maps are loading from the same machine. max is running from a solid state where i have windows and programs installed and i work from an old school mechanical 2 gig hard disk for my files.. one thing i havent mentioned is that the 16 gig of ram i have installed is supposed to run at 1600 speed but my bios is reading it only at 1333. This is something to do with my motherboard needing to be updated as the new amd opteron 6200 chips can take faster memory speeds where as the old 6100's cant. could this be a factor?

hi jason, sorry for the late reply. long day in front of a happy computer doing visuals. actually do i really have a lot of ram? 16 gig for a total of 32 cores is probably not enough? (ok not proper cores, amd ones, but even so!) everything in the system points to no ram problems. my test file is using around 4 gig, my processor cores are working at there max, no vray messages or resource problems. i havent got around to taking the card out yet but it really pains me. the card was soooo expensive. I may go for the fools approach and keep throwing money at it and hope it works...64 gig of quad core ram at 1600 should help..also maybe a quadro 4000 card and the tesla in the background doing cuda tasks...

hi Thanks for the advice. Actually i tried re-installing the drivers of the tesla card and this is where it starts getting wierd. my light cache calculation phase and iridescence have returned to normal but the actual render time is still really long? also it hangs during those initial phases of calculation and doesnt smoothly run through them (it still works but looks like it crashes) so the next step is completely remove the card i think!

thanks jason, yea the next step is to put the old graphics card in and see if that helps. dynamic memory is fine. it renders the same scene on my core i7 980x machine in 4 hours tops and that has only 8 gig of ram.. Everything else like working around the scene/movement, saving is really fast its just rendering? very strange? will keep you posted

hey jason i had a gaming card in there before as a temp before my tesla arrived, think it was a gtx 550..i also have a 1000 watt power supply so should be more than adequate to hand all the hardware its certanly done something to affect 3d max? This is gonna sound stupid but is vray somehow using the cards gpu to render off rather than my cpu's? could this slow the process down? the tesla c2050 is not as new as some other tesla cards

Hi Guys Can anyone help me with this? i recently installed an nvidia tesla C2050 card into my system. The system a dual opteron 6274 with 16 gigs of ram. Before that everything rendered fine and fast but now the system hangs at certain points for some seconds and a final vray render has jumped from 4 hours to 25 hours? I have two other machines and they are all rendering the same file at around 4-5 hours so its nothing to do with the file itself? I really dont know how to troubleshoot this. Ive checked that everything is working fine. no memory chip errors and no problems with overheating? could it be the tesla card? thanks nick