"CG industry continues to struggle"

[Nicinus]

@Bigguns

I don’t know. We have this conversation every year and all it does is puts fear into people.

Fear aside, there are now actual products out there that produce very convincing results in real time without requiring any skills.

@Mokiki

Many times the architect provides a rendering, but they are nowhere near the quality it would take to sell the property; most are SU renderings. If you are doing average work, then I think you’ll have problem, but if you are doing stellar work, you’ll be fine. This past year I have had a dozen projects come to me because the person they were using isn’t doing anything special and it isn’t setting their product above the rest, which is what they are looking for.

This I agree with, developers and real estate firms have to hire to render. However, a lot of the current work where architects wants a rendering of their Revit project is about to dry up with real time solutions like Enscape, Fuzor, and whatever Autodesk is cooking up. In many cases these renderings will be enough for the realtor as well, especially if it saves $1,500, which means the market will shrink.

@Mad_Dwarf

I am seeing a trend of architects ditching the computer and going back to paper. I guess the price of software is sinking them, so they are just pulling the plug.

No way, this is just insane. If anything architects need more and more advanced software as building codes are getting tougher and tougher. In 2020 California will go net zero and energy analysis will be a big part of the equation of building houses. Building a modern house is becoming so advanced that most cities require architect/engineers stamp the drawings.