Rendering close to reality!

[Anonymous]

I had a customer yesterday asking me if i can do a rendering project for him that looks like reality.After talking to him for a while and showing him my artlantis renderings I ve realised that artlantis 'reality' is not enough for him.What he asked for me was to design two really posh villas with private swimming pools etch and he wants the renderings to look real in order to put them on a web site for next season online booking. He wants the renderings to look like real pictures of the building so the customers wont realise its a render and think that its already built.He has seen renderings made on 3ds max or vis i dont really know (like the one i ve attached) that they are really impresive and he wants me to make the design and then he will give me pictures of the furniture tiles wooden decks etch that he is going to use so i can put them in the renederings.He offers good money for that and i dont want to lose the job.How can i do it?I use archicad 10 and artlantis studio but i dont think they are enough for this task.Please help!

[Anonymous]

kliment wrote:
And thhis one is only for competitions - clients do not like it at all!

It takes more Photoshop than rendering skills, anyway!

Project: Conversion and enlargement /adding second floof/ of a historic building into an Art Gallery, competiton entry, first prize. Photomontage on a bad photograph, taken by me.

this is the best rendering in the whole lot! nice work

[Dwight]

Yeah. I am suddenly nostalgic for Winnipeg in February.

[Anonymous]

Just to inform you and remind why I ve started this post, so I ve asked someone from russia using max and Vray how much he wants for the 'real photo renderings' and he said 300 euros per still image if I do the whole modelling thing and give him the model in .3ds format or .pln to add the textures and the right lighting.I needed around 10 pictures for the client so that will cost 3000 euros plus my work...Found it really expensive my self and when I told the client that i need 4000 euros he almost fell of the chair.Rendering is not well paid in greece and that gives on my nerves...People think that you do the 2d drawings and then you click 'rendering' and there you go... By the way Dwight i love your rendering gives you what you need to know plus its very artistic.Good work!!!!

[Anonymous]

Georgios, 10 pictures of a project seem way too mush for me! I usually make 3 pictures - more pictures distract the client and you start taking about them than the project! Also it is very expensive - both if you make the pictures or pay someone to make them for you. I would suggests to go for fewer and less realistic images, like shown in this post:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=14367&highlight=

[Anonymous]

kliment wrote:
Georgios, 10 pictures of a project seem way too mush for me! I usually make 3 pictures - more pictures distract the client and you start taking about them than the project! Also it is very expensive - both if you make the pictures or pay someone to make them for you. I would suggests to go for fewer and less realistic images, like shown in this post:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=14367&highlight=

I totaly agree with you Kliment but if you read the beginning of the topic you will see what the client asked me to do.

[Rakela Raul]

real photo renderings' and he said 300 euros per still image if I do the whole modelling thing and give him the model in .3ds format or .pln to add the textures and the right lighting.I needed around 10 pictures for the client so that will cost 3000 euros plus my work...Found it really expensive my self and when I told the client that i need 4000 euros he almost fell of the chair

how much in US Dollars?

[Thomas Holm]

Rakela wrote:
how much in US Dollars?

You've got a Mac. Use the Converter dashboard widget!

[Dwight]

Widget can't keep up with downward spiral of US$ value.
Dang that balance of trade!

[Rakela Raul]

thanku thomas, one more for the mac notes...really nice !!!! (still trying to control lost pallettes though)

400 dls per image

[Steve Jepson]

If it is not to late to help you, I would recommend that you use ArchiCAD to model your architectural projects. Render it with Maxwell on a render farm.

Your ArchiCAD models can be saved as .3ds or other formats if needed, however, the ArchiCAD plug-in for Maxwell works fine too.

This may not be an option, but if you were to make your model available here, or in the ArchiCAD section of the Maxwell forum, you would probably get several responses from ArchiCAD users with Maxwell that would like to render it for you as a test render.

I would. I am looking for a model worth using my Maxwell on.