The "going rate" for a colored front elevation rendering seemed to be around $500 around Denver. Basically it was competing against the watercolor artists that permeate the back of most Denver area real estate magazines. For some strange reason the real estate sector in the Denver area is obsessed with these watercolor renderings some of which border on being naive art. The problem however when basing this rate with a Sketch-Up model is that it goes beyond a mere “flat” rendering of an architectural structure. The tendency is to work the model on all four sides including site development to a certain extent and development of details well beyond the ability of traditional rendering “artists.” Additionally, the client will also have a tendency to request a multitude of color and material changes. Thus you also become a “color consultant” of sorts in addition to a 3D modeler and renderer. In the end I believe it takes about 3 working days (24 hours) to create a 3D model and rendering. This includes the above mentioned color and material changes. $500 is the minimum for a good competent rendering. In my experience the price range is anywhere from $500 to $1,500 so essentially the proposal should read: “For an amount not to exceed one-thousand five-hundred dollars and zero cents ($1,500.00).” “Billing to be based on an hourly rate of ______ /hr.” If you think 1,500 is too high just adjust the above quote. It could be lower if you get a bulk contract with numerous renderings. If you are not familiar with the client also include a requirement of a retainer of around ten-percent (10%) of the maximum cost. Emphasize the final cost for the client as opposed to an hourly rate especially if you’re thinking of a range of $75-100/hour which will scare off most people in this current economic environment.

As I heard in the news we only have about 20 % less than generally. Also Hungary has someown resources but of course, not enough (Romania should have more). My colleagues at work now complain that though they turn up the gas heaters at home, it is colder than generally (I don't heat with gas at home). One thing however; we were supposed to work on Saturday (as an exchange for another day betwen the holidays) but now it has been delayed until there is no need for heaing. So I don't precisely know where it is going but I personally and currently don't feel it - YET - but this can already be some kind of a sign of something bad coming.

Yeah and they all about Viagra and fake swiss watches.... I go every now and than and permanently delete them.

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Hello Gentleman and thank you for your replies. I think an hourly rate will probably be appropriate for this because there has been so very much back an forth on this protype. It would appear that I have something that is printable with this go. So my client is going to see what the ouptut looks like and when he is ready to request the next round of changes he will need one of you to work with. What I have been doing has been really inefficient. I will provide the contact info for each of you to him and he can take it from there. Thanks so much for responding.

Al, thank you for that. I had no idea. My condolences to his family.

lol! Ah, the Schengen Agreement! ...

@mike lucey said: Guys, We are working on something along these lines. Mike well Mayor, glad to hear that

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@kdsdesign said: I drive a c350 but no pics (now its crashed) my wife has an XF only pic was at the dealer. Damn! over 256kb oh well of course kevin drives a mercedes!

Hi Gunawan I don't think Image Modeller can do what I'm suggesting, neither can similar app Photomodeler, as they both calculate perspective. Great for photographs where the perspective is accurate but less useful for hand drawn sketches. But it is quick and easy to sketch accurate isometrics so it would be nice to be able to scan these and translate them to 3D. But the interface would have to know that the image is a parallel view with no vanishing points.

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Before saying that "its all legal", the first few pages of the document the scans came from should be scrutinized. It is doubtful that Ford Motor Company published any intellectual property without restriction.

All the best for a grim looking 2009 everybody. Here's hoping to a much brighter future, somewhen.

Thanks R, and All The Best To You. I should have mentioned that my house is totally hardwired with CATV and everything links to a central hub area. I went wireless about three years ago and all was good except the furthest point. The house is built on the side of a hill and I often joke - there's more steel and concrete than in the 'Golden Gate Bridge' holding it up. Anyway my issue is I use my MacBook most of the time in this area and the wireless signal has dead spots...BTW, tried a booster - not great. Cheers, DE

Great pictures Pete...in the first one you look like your holding your ass in pain...

Not entirely relevant, but theres a very good example of lod modelling here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=117868 Also shows use of normal maps to get a very high amount of detail in to a low poly model.

Another vote for a cloth draping tool, please Theres a good paper on it here: http://teknikus.dk/tj/gdc2001.htm if anyone fancies reading in to it a bit more.

Burkhard, I am with you, Architex also for me is THE font I use with SketchUp. I use it even for elaborated projectdescriptions. As a mac-user I very often use 'pages' as my prefered projectdescription-software and even there my prefered font is 'Architex'. It always gives a real design-ish, development-like style to my presentations. It is my standard font for SketchUp, and in combination with some specific styles it gives me the perfect way to present my projects, without the need of (m)any other programs but SU. Only for real production-info I change to arial. My suggestion: have you contacted Grant Marchall directly? He used to be a very great SU fan and made very nice and surprising contributions, untill he left the communitee a few years ago. (If I remember well, it had to do with the 'take-over' by Google, but I might be wrong.) His website is still alive, although not updated recently. But still... maybe as the 'founding father' of this font he might be willing to help you out and add those special german fonts to the range and maybe some more like à,á,è,é,ó,ò,ï (and I have a few more in mind). By any means I would like to offer you my help in extending this font-range. Let's not forget that there is also the Architex bold, we then have to think of. PM(Personal Mail) is also a possibility to talk further about this subject/project.

Their also shutting down until Obama is in office (seriosly)