[d7mcfc]

How did you do it?

I know I need to get some models built and rendered etc.

But how do you break a new industry? Who do you contact?

Wanting to break free of just doing Architectural visuals, as the industry is not really at its best at the moment.

Help once again, greatly appreciated.

[Eric Lagman]

How did you do it?

I know I need to get some models built and rendered etc.

But how do you break a new industry? Who do you contact?

Wanting to break free of just doing Architectural visuals, as the industry is not really at its best at the moment.

Help once again, greatly appreciated.

As far as I know most product designers do their own renderings. I am sure there may be exceptions, but I am not sure it works the same as the arch viz industry. I think the complexity of arch viz lends itself to hiring outside sources to do renderings, but most product viz can be done by the actual designer. Im not saying give up, but the market is definitely much smaller I would guess.

I would start by setting up a website that caters to this type of business. Something to the effect of give me your 3d model and I will make it look real. There are a few users on this board that have sites that have this message.

[JDHill]

I think this guy has some interesting insights...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrefQIqrwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5WasbSClHM

[Micha]

I'm living from design visualisation. Some thoughts to this topic:

* designers often are working under the pressure of tight deadlines

* I offer to work on the basic setup parallel to the design process, so that at the end of the project design model and visualisation setup are ready for the final rendering

* at the end, if the designers are exploited by creating the final model, I start the final high res renderings with a fine adjusted setup with known render times. the designers can take a break or use preview renderings for working on the final presentation

* your renderings must be highest quality, best beautiful , so that the design office couldn't render it in this quality during a project

* you must be a specialist for rendering, get all effects done in shortest time (I use a biased render engine to get the max render speed)

* work for designers in your country - so you can fast communicate per phone or messenger

* make special prices for design students at the last semester. So, they got nice images and you get connections to design offices

After some time you could find some design offices and work together over the years.

An other direction of design visualisation are mass renderings for catalogs. Most, you get many detailed restrictions and you will paid per images and not per hour. I have the feeling this kind of jobs are done in Asia often.

[Fernando Tella]

I think this guy has some interesting insights...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrefQIqrwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5WasbSClHM

That guy is funny.

[Bubbaloo]

I think this guy has some interesting insights...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrefQIqrwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5WasbSClHM

That guy is funny.

And informative...