I love this job!

[IC]

Hi Craig,

Yes, the same Livingston (for my sins, possibly).

Live in Edinburgh and worked there too until we had our two Scottish offices merged in a central location.

Can't help thinking the lack of good local viz companies(I only rate one we've used) and the lack of Scottish users of this site may be a good thing for business opportunities.

Cheers,

Iain

[Wilson Iwazawa]

I recently left the company i used to work. Not only me but the other two guys left too and we are working together.

We were receiving a considerable quantity of money, since we are arch. students and worked to it only half period (4 hours)

but....

the general quality of the company render was stopped on time (one of my boss was finalizing every model we did), and most important, they didnt give us the credit for good images.

It was very common to they talk with a client near us, tolding that they did all the work...very cinic...

And at same time, me and my future partners were studing the new render-model-texturing methods, buying books, visiting internet sites (when i discovered CGA).

Sometimes i worked on some freelancer job (thanks for Christian Miranda, my friend and an old user of this forum that dont post for a long time)

More recently, we were working on lots of freelance jobs, and it became very hard (school at morning, work on company on evening and at night do the freelance and school works)

Because all of this we decided to left the company and work as associated, each one in their home. Our work reach a higher quality than the company, and, only by indications we are getting lots of work (we didnt make any marketing yet)

By only making the client satisfied, they aways tell others to do renderings with us, this is the most important way on our association.

My adminstration teacher told someday, an important thing: It doesnt import that your work have much "technical quality", you will get sucess whe you "work with quality", by gaving the client all he waits to his project (sometimes he wants not a photoreal render but a beautifull render...)

Sorry for this long historic and for my bad english, i think that if we do good work and have courage to face new challenges, the reward aways become larger....

[Wilson Iwazawa]

Tragic but funny

Its complicated to tell our parents (who expect, after 5 years of school, that you will become to project buildings, hospitals, etc...) that you will work only with arch visualization. I told:

No dad, i will draw "OTHER´s" projects.

The first thing is to prove them that, at least here in Brazil, the render sometimes costs more than the project.

The second is to convince them that the computer software dont have buttons to automatically do windows, cars, trees, roofs...and we dont become only "machine operators" (sometimes we have to convince THE CLIENTS for the same thing.... orangeno orangeno orangeno )