Hispanic People Images

[Charles Gaushell]

We are working on a project in Texas and need to find good images of Hispanic people to add to our scenes. We have had very little luck finding such.

 

Are there any commercial or even your personal libraries that you would be willing to direct us to?

 

Thanks!

[DennisHolland]

Archvision has a Hispanic people library in their collection.

 

Check it here: http://www.archvision.com/ContentDetails.cfm?BundleID=11400&Category=1&Dimension=3&LocationID=3

 

Good luck,

Dennis

[archkre]

Oh not again!:Why did they have to start going ethnical?

That is a very well known and dangerous approach!

Today they go for Hispanic people, tomorrow for Black , Jews ,Gypsies;Chinamen! The day after the'll claim they have released the new breed of spotless Arial people!

We already know that kind of crap!

What do you think about it?

[BrianKitts]

Oh not again!:Why did they have to start going ethnical?

That is a very well known and dangerous approach!

Today they go for Hispanic people, tomorrow for Black , Jews ,Gypsies;Chinamen! The day after the'll claim they have released the new breed of spotless Arial people!

We already know that kind of crap!

What do you think about it?

 

 

They're being "ethnical" as you put it, because there is a need to complete renderings with native heritage. If you land a job doing a rendering for a company in Tokyo, they most likely would want to show the image with Asian not Caucasian entourage. This is a service that shouldn't be discredited by racial slander. Likewise if you put a pale Caucasian standing in front of an adobe villa.... it might look a little odd to your Hispanic client. How can you criticize someone for wanting a coherent image? Its not being racial, it’s being geographical.

 

Now back to the original post, Archvision as mentioned above is good, with a diverse library, however there are some quarks to using them. Take heed if you're working with them in a 3d program sometimes their shadows and reflections do fun things, and sometimes they act up with third-party plugins like Vray, but don't get me wrong I use them and still appreciate their ease of use. As for photoshop insertion they're great. They have trial samples on their site if you'd like to try before you buy...

[archkre]

I understand your point of view, but believe me, they are playing with fire!

[ihabkal]

I understand your point of view, but believe me, they are playing with fire!

many times clients come and specify they want african americans in quite a few of my renderings. Archvision saved me and my client with their library at

http://www.archvision.com/ContentDetails.cfm?BundleID=10600&Category=1&Dimension=3&LocationID=3

Licensing commitees want to see that education and govrnment buildings have a diversity with their users.

the diversity in Archvision's libraries is a huge factor in the financial success of the company.

[ShaunDon]

Populating an image according to the ethnic makeup of the public expected to use the building(s) is part of the job, as Brian pointed out. When we go into a job rendering a building in Dubai, we know the streets will have men and women wearing traditional Arab attire. And it's not unusual to get revision requests from clients for us to add a black man or a woman.

 

That's just as racist as making sure an advertisement has two blacks, a hispanic, and an Asian couple for every half dozen caucasians. You see that kind of concious thought put into every avenue of marketing.

 

It's once you start dealing with clients who ask for ethnic people to be taken out that the situation gets a little dicey, and I've been in that uncomfortable position before. But I think you're overreacting when you accuse the client of racism when he/she's only asking for the people on the street to look like they belong there.

 

Shaun

[Hazdaz]

All this talk about it possibly being "racist" is obsurd....

 

.... and on that note, take a look at Tina from ArchVision's site! I'd like to be her 'Pappi' any day. :lol:

[Charles Gaushell]

Guess I'll chime back in here. The reality is that our client in El Paso, which has a large Hispanic population, didn't want just a bunch of light skinned (i.e. caucasian) people. Can you blame him? It is for marketing and it only makes sense to make sure you speak to your audience.

 

Same thing when we've created an animation for a predominantely African American church - why would they want a bunch of white people in the video - that would be stupid.

 

There is nothing racist at all about this - this hypersensitivity is the problem these days.

 

And for this particular project, there is a variety of ethnic groups - but if you want to raise the racist question - it is why aren't there more bitmap libraries of different ethnic groups? The answer to that is probably economics for those making them - they make what they think they can get the best return on their money.

 

Thanks everyone else. Archvision has some good ones, but I sure would like more variety. We are probably going to shoot some of our own.

[ecastillor]

All this talk about it possibly being "racist" is obsurd....

 

.... and on that note, take a look at Tina from ArchVision's site! I'd like to be her 'Pappi' any day. :lol:

 

My favorite CG hottie is definately, Talea, from GOT 3D, she comes in every position, sitting dow,walking, dressed casually or formal.... I think I saw a hint of a thong in one image actually

Clients sometimes ask me...who is that girl???

[Hazdaz]

^^ yea, TALEA looks like a nice one... but I still think I prefer the Latin excitement of TINA.

 

This is actually really funny, cuz at work I use the same image of this well endowed blonde hottie for all my renderings - we call her 'Pebbles'. She is quite the looker, and one of the old perverts that I work with always makes up some backstory of what (or who) 'Pebbles' has been doing. 'Pebbles' might just be a 2D bitmap image, but that girl leads one exciting life. :lol: