This is the kind of architectural rendering that needs props like cars to show scale. The house looks huge when scaled with the two cars. Without, you have no gauge of scale. This is the first proof, so I can only assume there’ll be changes.
Loose the ivy… makes it look unkempt and on course for dilapidation
Yeah, they might go, but this client likes them. I did another project for him and when I added ivy he fell in love. I did find a 2018 Ivy generator script that worked, so I had to install MAX 2018 just for the ivy.
I like the Ivy but only at the pergola, the rest to me is overdone and [it looks like nobody is taking care of the house. the trees on the background look too homogenous in color and dark.
Nice, the only thing I noticed is the sky got strange color I supposed after the tonemapping. Too much red on it
I removed the tone mapping on the sky, so I’ll have to look into that. I did darken the top and bottom of my scene. I figure that’s what is going on.
Very nice one.
Thanks Marko. I think the changes I am rendering out now will make it better.
where did you find the ivy generator?
WoW! really nice!
excellent stuff, love this place
Yeah, it’s a nice one. It is going to be located in Brazil.
They look fine. His fault if he thinks they don’t.
In over 20 years of viz/vfx I know one thing - they all lie 
From major organisations to humble one-man operations I only ever met one person, my favourite ever client, who knows precisely what
he wants, presents full, finished and approved drawings with full materials and an attitude of total professionalism. One client! In all that time! Says a lot huh? 
Oh yeah, he pays me before the job is delivered, in full every time. what a star!
Yeah, this guy is the guy who tries to get what he can for nothing. He also asked me to design him a logo to put on each sheet that he wants to approve and he also wants each one at three different sizes and each one with a little darker stucco. The problem is, I scheduled him for three eye level images and not with the birdseye’s, which are harder to pull off. He told me Friday afternoon, saying that he has to print these Monday. I posted them yesterday, locked so he can’t comment, and he replied today that he has many changes and needs to mark them up. What he doesn’t get is, I charged for my time Friday and Saturday, because of his meeting Monday and not for another week of redlines. I don’t work on Sunday, so I haven’t even replied. I don’t like to reply to emails when I am frustrated, anyway. I do have clients that I love working with and like you, many pay 100% upfront and they trust that I am giving them a good price, which I am.
LOL, he sounds like he’d get on extremely well with my bunch
I sent final approvals last week for a bunch of site images. All were approved - I rendered them all at full res - waited a week - they came back and changed all the brick, doors, windows. Fools.
A concurrent project is even funnier. They sent me crappy Sketchup elevations from 2014 and a couple of images of the almost finished site. I built the thing and when I finished was the the time when they sent me up to date drawings. I adjusted and rendered - sent for approval - they approved then literally when I finished the final they said that the glaringly obvious wall, bushes etc. were not actually there and have to be replaced by vague stuff I have no reference for.
I despair!
How do you handle this? Do you just do what is asked of you or do you quote the changes? I have found that if you let them walk on you they will, so I make it very clear that changes will cost. Now, me actually charging them is another thing. Once I exercise my threat they instantly become very happy with things. I can guarantee they’ll charge their client for change orders. I am learning that communication is key!
It all depends on how they’ve been. I rant about them in my spare time because I hate dishonourable conduct and lying about deadlines and stuff, also seemingly wilful stupidity - but I’m also too easy-going to get heavy with them really.
I do charge for changes but it’s pretty minor as I suppose I’ve always been good at factoring that in in my quotes, so it all works out in the end.
I was going to charge for this latest extra stuff but didn’t as it was actually simple enough to do - just render time. Ended up giving him an extra image that I was playing with. He was very happy, paid up and went off happily.
I’ve been very lucky in never having had to advertise, so it’s all word of mouth and referrals - very varied stuff too so I’m happy - therefor have to keep them happy too, or they might go away
I’ve only once refused EVER to work with someone and that was immense fun to say/do. Sometimes there simply is no other choice if they are irredeemably an arse
Bottom line is yes, communication is the key and if your approach works then that’s cool and I suppose just refine it as you go. Although some people seem never to listen, however perfectly you communicate
I recently read that your per-hour fee for changes should be much higher than your normal per-hour, which helps to ward off changes. If I didn’t have work I would love changes, however, I schedule projects back to back, so it just pisses off the next project.
Yeah that is definitely an issue. That is I guess one of my biggest complaints. Because I time-manage so efficiently it’s crucial for them to stay focused or it can really stretch my ability to get everything done.
So saying, I do so but normally at the cost of my other personal plans. They are just lucky I’m dedicated I guess, otherwise bad things would happen I’m sure.
By some stroke of something or other, what looked like a total bloody mess has in fact worked out to be one thing dovetailing into the next quite nicely.
Aaaaand something tells me I should not have let that comment out into the wild…
I go now from doing a few (what I endearingly call) Noddy houses, to replicating a series of hyperbaric chambers for a company which sells them for 30 grand a piece but is already bitching about costs. Hey-ho!
I have three projects that were a rush and have been sitting there for a few weeks. I have continued to sell jobs, because I have a business to run, and they’ll all pop up and want me to devote my full attention to them. My contract says that I’ll have to reschedule, but they don’t get that. I had one guy call me the end of December, pay in full, and I never heard from him again.