interior hotel in Oaxaca

[dlparisi]

2500-5000 pesos for the exteriors and a quick curreny conversion on Google results in around $250-$500 per image! I'd go broke but I don't know the cost of living there. Anyone outside of the U.S. care to comment on similiar prices around the world?

[flino2004]

I saw $150 per view (in India)...I don't remenber the webpage but the link was in CGarchitect

[dominiquelaksmana]

i know one guy who charge us$120 in singapore
(he came to singapore from far away land and i don't really want to mention where he comes from) and messed up the market price here.
his work is nice, almost very good, and cheap.

i don't know how he can survive with that rate ,and how he paid for the equipment and software.........maybe pirated...maybe not.
but he's fast.... do things like mass production.....he can finish 6 rendering in one day. anyway, he's using form-z

[rpc212]

Seriously, these people don't understand economics and don't understand they are going to drive the industry into the ground! You help no one, including yourself, when you price things really low.

Can you say cutting ones own throat in order to cut others! Really pathetic!

What will he do when he has to buy new computers, software etc.! Maybe like you said it is all pirated! Maybe you should call him up and ask him. A little pressure on people like this never hurts as they have to expect it when they are low balling everyone else to scoop clients!

If anything prices should be increasing not decreasing! Inflation, complexity of software, education, business costs, etc, etc, etc . . .

Anyway, just find ways to make your work more beneficial to the client and he will burn out with his super low prices as he grinds his nose right through the grind stone, so to speak!

[jujubee]

You help no one, including yourself, when you price things really low.

agreed. it causes more work for everyone and reduces quality - just like when everyone started to learn HTML the better designers often left the industry or got pushed out because of cheaper labor. It is the same as the 'dot bomb' syndrome.

I think the only solution is governments need to hold corporations/companies somehow liable for who they outsource work too. Kind of like companies in the US employing 'sweatshops' overseas.

[pshupe68]

RPC & Jujubee - I'll play devil's advocate although those are ridiculously low prices, but price should be irrelevant. It would be hard to tell someone who is in need of money to not do any work and not make money for the good of the industry. I'm sure all of us have taken less than we should have on some projects to get a new client, or even done some freebies for expected gain down the road. It is all relative. You may think what I charge to be extremely low and therefore would feel threatened.

I think it is an eventuality that someone living in an area where the living costs are lower and there are few jobs are going to take a lot of work because they are cheaper. The secret for us, people in higher living cost areas, will be, to offer something that others cannot. Personal attention, developing relationships that would be impossible for someone thousands of miles away to duplicate. Cultivating relationships with people that value the profession and the product and cutting those who are just looking at the lowest cost. Generally you get what you pay for. I would be more worried about larger companies, rendering firms, that outsource to "the cheap" areas. They can supply the relationshoip and the cheap workforce. That may where the majority of renderings may be heading if not done so already.

We better be ready for it in any case and tailor our businesses to suit.

Regards Peter.