Trade Show Exhibit Rendering costs

[Cynthia Hansen]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if any of you can give me an idea as to what trade show exhibit renderings are going for. Someone is interested in having me do some work for them but says they usually charge $100-200 per rendering?! I know the economy is crap but that seems awful cheap. Maybe I'm wrong though for this type of work (I've never done this type of work.)? So anyway, really curious as to what kind of rates are out there for this kind of work.

Cynthia

 

p.s.(here's a link to my work to see what I do: http://mysite.verizon.net/kelsey3d/

Edited November 24, 2009 by Cynthia Hansen

[axezine]

This seems really low... is this for a US company? I do freelance work for an event design firm and I would think per rendering values should be closer to $600 - $700 AT LEAST, don't know exactly because I charge them hourly. But your figures seems unrealistic to me.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Jorge

[anejo]

if they expect to get a render at that price than they must have low expectations for what they expect to get in return. looking at your work, they should know that they'll have to pay a premiun. I would walk away from that job. stick to your hourly rate.

[Matt Sugden]

I dont know, but quickly looking at your images on your website, you really ought to use a softer Anti Aliasing setting when you render, your images look very jaggedy.

 

$100-$200 sounds cheap to me too, work out how long it will take you and set your price based on that?

[STRAT]

it is cheap; 3 or 4 times that sounds better, but what exactly are the renderings of? perhaps it's a simple job that'll take an hour or so with a super fast turnaround and warrants the cost. we dont know, but yes, sounds too cheap. but again, is this cheapness better than nothing at all? in this current financial time it's not always easy to turn work away.

[TheAllusionisst]

When a potential client tells me something like that I say "Hey if you are happy with the work, that is a fantastic deal, you should stick with them, you are running a business and need to be profitable, I thank you for thinking of us for your job!" Usually there is a reason why they are looking for someone else If they are just price shopping you usually will never hear from them again, if they are looking to improve on their visualizations and were trying to negotiate the lowest fee by throwing that at you, they will usually try to negotiate somewhere between what they said and your price. In my experience anyway.

 

P.S. Thanks for giving credit to challenge scenes on your site.

[erickdt]

I currently work full time at a tradeshow exhibit design company as the lead exhibit designer but back when I was doing freelance work I was charging $50/hr. rather than an image by image cost. Most jobs would net me less than $1K for several renderings (5+) along with several rounds of revisions to those renderings. In hindsight I was selling myself way short especially considering that I was designing, laying out, modelling everything from scratch, texturing and lighting. This to me seems like alot more work than the average architectural visualisation artist does considering that they usually are given a completed design (although not necessarily built in 3D) with drawings specfications etc. For this the fee is usually $500+ per image. If I do any more freelance work in the future my rate will be a per rendering rate of $500+/rendering.

 

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[Cynthia Hansen]

Thank you all for your responses! They realize that they need to do more high end visualization for their work. I just don't think they have a concept of what it costs and yes they're in the U.S.