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I know I'm not the first person to raise this issue, but I'd like to get a discussion started about how we represent genders and ethnicity/nationality in arch viz. This may seem like a heady topic, but I think we have a responsibility to be mindful of this. It speaks to our own biases in how we think about culture and architecture, and influences our audience's perception of both. Many would probably tell me that this is a minor detail, but I definitely notice when I see a beautiful rendering populated only one type of people. I was recently asked to switch out some of my entourage in a rendering because the only woman in the image was wearing "stripper heels". Our client, being a woman, might not take kindly to the representation (it also looked like a man in the rendering was checking her out... XD). They were totally right, but it shouldn't have taken having a female client to raise the issue. In my opinion, this has mostly to do with the availability of high quality entourage that represents people fairly. This seems to be particularly so with free entourage. Do you agree/disagree that entourage packs usually represent people unfairly? Have you encountered similar issues in your work? Do you or your company take any particular stance on the topic? Do you think it matters at all? Do you have any recommendations for good entourage? All of the above is purely my opinion/experience. So, please discuss! I'm eager to hear what your opinions and experiences are. Cheers, Jinmu

Hello, VIZUTIL is a website with high-quality 2D cutouts. We are looking to do another photo shoot and would like to supply what is in greatest demand. Please answer a few questions so that I may best craft our next photo shoot to meet your needs. 1. What category of work does your firm complete most often? (i.e. Residential, Commercial, etc.) 2. What is the most common request for 2D cutouts from clients? (Specifics about age, gender, ethnicity, etc. would be beneficial.) 3. What do you struggle to find for availability of the requests from question two? 4. What else would you ask to be considered for our next photo shoot? Any feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

I work at an architectural office. We have slowly been doing more and more renderings for clients. Our biggest issue is often a lack of good quality images of people to add to a scene. We are especially short of young kids for water themed parks and resorts. We have found the Viz people has the quality of people we like, but their options are limited to dull business people and a few other options. The also do not have a wide range of ages. Does anyone know of good sources for people? I have bought other "libraries" of people but many appear to be from someone who has just gone through online photography and cut out people. We need the lighting to be consistent in the people so the final rendering images look convincing.