Good Grief

[glorybound]

This weekend, my wife drove me over an hour for some "amazing steaks". On the way how my wife asked me if it was worth the drive and I said, no. She said, and I quote, "you can't tell steak from pork!", and she is correct. Some people just don't appreciate good things, especially when you factor in the cost. However, some people will pay for the finer things in life. For every 10 $2 cheeseburgers at McD's our local fine dining steak house will create 1 $20 steak. I guess we have to decide if we will produce more or will we produce better.

[flino2004]

I think he does.

@ Bobby, I wonder what the result looks like. I'm the lead architectural visualizer at my firm here, but we have a division in Vietnam and even I get outsourced by my own company sometimes, even though they produce overly saturated kitschy crap images. I had to get over it too

What I've seen is taste could be relative by location.....for example renderings from Asia, specially in exteriors they like to put everything possible on them...birds, planes, dogs, non-Asian people for a project located in China(weird), super saturated skies even if the sky is grey 90% of the time, etc....middle east renderings have a lot golden stuff all over, even the design is consistency weird looking (contemporary design in middle east)., the entourage only Ferraris, Lambo, Range rovers, etc.
Renderings coming from Europe depending of the area look super clean (look like laboratories) but I like them.....so, just looking the style one can guess where the rendering is coming from in some way.

[glorybound]

Most people look at a rendering portfolio and decide if they like the persons work or not. If they like it, they find out if they can afford it. My experience has been what they are doing in-house is no longer cutting it, so they are looking for someone who can produce something better. Usually, price isn't the issue; in-house people tend to spend a lot of time producing mediocre work, which tends to cost more in the end. I have heard a lot of horror stories about outsourcing to foreign countries; people only get burnt once. I am sure there are some really good companies, but for every good company, there are 10 bad companies. What I have heard is the example work that they were shown was nothing like what they got and deadlines are not being met. What is hurting things are flashing $199 rendering banners, which are deceiving and cheapens what we do.

What I've seen is taste could be relative by location.....for example renderings from Asia, specially in exteriors they like to put everything possible on them...birds, planes, dogs, non-Asian people for a project located in China(weird), super saturated skies even if the sky is grey 90% of the time, etc....middle east renderings have a lot golden stuff all over, even the design is consistency weird looking (contemporary design in middle east)., the entourage only Ferraris, Lambo, Range rovers, etc.
Renderings coming from Europe depending of the area look super clean (look like laboratories) but I like them.....so, just looking the style one can guess where the rendering is coming from in some way.

[Neilg]

mean while in NY somebody charged 250K a minute
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/re...nute.html?_r=0

That was us
motion control cranes, supermodels and french high wire artists soon pad that out - it was only me and 2 other people doing all the 3d for 6 months. They didn't just give us a bag of cash.

[tricky]

That was us
motion control cranes, supermodels and french high wire artists soon pad that out - it was only me and 2 other people doing all the 3d for 6 months. They didn't just give us a bag of cash.

Having seen the work, I think the price tag was more than justifiable. Incredible stuff. It gave me goose bumps watching it!

[instinct]

So where do i see the work ?

[Neilg]

Having seen the work, I think the price tag was more than justifiable. Incredible stuff. It gave me goose bumps watching it!

How did you see it, did Christiaan show it in London somewhere? And did you also see the comically large book that was produced for it? ha.
The opening -> aerials over NYC was pretty much all my segment. interiors and aerials were done by the others.

We're not allowed to put it on the internet (now quickly becoming a thorn in our side, they said we could after 6 months but it's been 18 so far and they're really getting off on the mystery and hype that still surrounds it) The building is almost full height now so I think they're probably going to make us wait until it's finished.
Pretty much unless you come by our office and we can show it to you, you need to be considered a serious buyer and invited to the sales office in NYC. Private showings are completely fine too, but there aren't many opportunities to get a bunch of 3d people together to play it for them.