I bid on a job last week and like usual, I sent a follow up email. The reply was, “to bad, already done and it took three days and cost $250!!!” Now, my quote was a conservative 3x that amount; I guess he showed me :). I didn’t take the bait, so I just told him that I am glad he got wait he needed, …

mean while in NY somebody charged 250K a minute http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/realestate/selling-park-avenue-condos-at-250000-a-minute.html?\_r=0

[image] How to use Ptex Textures and Displacement in V-ray for maya tutorial! mean while in NY somebody charged 250K a minute http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/realestate/selling-park-avenue-condos-at-250000-a-minute.html?_r=0 i could have done it in 4 hours, but I don’t like to produce crap. …

maybe they got it back in 3 days, not that the time spent on it was 3 days… Honestly, I’ve held stuff that I finished quickly so it doesn’t look like it took me no time at all to produce :wink:

[image] Update to Vray 2.4.04 from 2.4.03 is causing problems. maybe they got it back in 3 days, not that the time spent on it was 3 days… Honestly, I’ve held stuff that I finished quickly so it doesn’t look like it took me no time at all to produce :wink: it was modeling a hotel from PDF’s an…

ah, including modeling, yeah, sounds like either outsourcing or someone with not enough work. Glad you’re over it :slight_smile:

There is always someone who offers do to it for less money than somebody else. Us included. :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess they make cheap for people who can’t afford expensive.

The sad part is most of the time you can’t really argue quality and the client just goes for cheap. We had a lot of discussion over the last month with alot of architecture firms about 3d visualization and real photography. And for the most part they didn’t really care about quality because most of …

I do not agree with your second statement Oliver. We are part of the process on different design stages. At the end we want to show idea, space potential and to be honest I think that it is much harder to be successful in achieving this with “bland” look than doing so called “photo real”.

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flino2004 September 21, 2014, 9:40pm 7

I agree with you bobby…the link that I posted was the other side of the spectrum.( the $250 guys and 250k a minute )

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