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      LARV
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      @baz said:

      @larv said:

      but I might need just about anything and most of the time I need it fast. 😄

      Well, you know what they say: You might want fast and cheap and good, but you can only chose two.

      I see from your profile you are in education... pray tell your use of SU for this porpoise?
      (Just fishing 😄

      Education? No, I´m a graphic news designer. I must´ve marked something random when registering to this forum. Perhaps I ment that I´m here for education, I don´t know, I don´t remember.

      Fast and cheap works well if the model is what I need for a specific purpose. 😉

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        baz
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        @larv said:

        Fast and cheap works well if the model is what I need for a specific purpose. 😉

        Well now you talkin... late here, but quickly. Easy to build a fast/cheap model if the client has a clear idea of how it will be seen. Basically, the closer the model, the more detail, the more time etc. But if a corner of a couch is all that is seen, still cheap and fast cos its only that bit has to be modeled.
        ciao

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          LARV
          last edited by

          @baz said:

          @larv said:

          Fast and cheap works well if the model is what I need for a specific purpose. 😉

          Well now you talkin... late here, but quickly. Easy to build a fast/cheap model if the client has a clear idea of how it will be seen. Basically, the closer the model, the more detail, the more time etc. But if a corner of a couch is all that is seen, still cheap and fast cos its only that bit has to be modeled.
          ciao

          I don´t work with models for clients, I do infographics. Models can be part of a job, but not in the way you probably think. 3D model designer and and graphic news designer are two different jobs.

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            baz
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            Oh well, never mind.

            BTW, I trained as a graphic designer in the late 70s, in Britain a graphic designer was someone who could communicate visually. I suppose with infographics you have to be part designer, part accountant...

            PS: googled graphic news designer, no hits, must be very new. mieawww

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              LARV
              last edited by

              @baz said:

              Oh well, never mind.

              BTW, I trained as a graphic designer in the late 70s, in Britain a graphic designer was someone who could communicate visually. I suppose with infographics you have to be part designer, part accountant...

              A graphic news designer is usually employed by a newspaper, doing primarly infographics. A graphic designer could be anything.

              Accounting? Nope there´s nothing of that kind involved in my work, luckily 😄

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                LARV
                last edited by

                @baz said:

                Oh well, never mind.

                BTW, I trained as a graphic designer in the late 70s, in Britain a graphic designer was someone who could communicate visually. I suppose with infographics you have to be part designer, part accountant...

                PS: googled graphic news designer, no hits, must be very new. mieawww

                I get 228 milion results..

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                  LARV
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                  One example (NY Times) of a gazillion ways to work with infographics:

                  http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/05/business/20080406_METRICS_SUB_GRAPHI.jpg

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                    LARV
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                    @phillip h said:

                    Ah! Print media. that's even better.

                    ..as well as the webb. Primarly the webb these days.

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                      baz
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                      That's really really good. 👍
                      Please tell which bits are pure SU?

                      PS: How are you with C&C's?

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                        LARV
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                        @baz said:

                        That's really really good. 👍

                        How are you with C&C's?

                        Creative Commons? I haven´t had any use of it yet.

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                          baz
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                          smart arse.

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                            LARV
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                            @baz said:

                            That's really really good. 👍
                            Please tell which bits are pure SU?

                            PS: How are you with C&C's?

                            They might not have done the modellling in SU. It can be done though, in many different ways. I would do the modelling in SU and then import to Illustrator. Again, there are multiple ways of going about it.

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                              LARV
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                              @baz said:

                              smart arse.

                              Did I missunderstand you? What did you mean by CC? Adobe?

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                                baz
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                                Comment and Criticism on images submitted, tho in this case, its not your work, sorry for misunderstanding your unclear provenence.

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                                  LARV
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                                  One criticism of the above example is that it´s not the best way to present the data, but they probably liked the design idea too much to drop it. It looks really neat though, with the profesional appearance still intact. The two can be hard to balance sometimes.

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                                    HP EliteBook 8440p Intel® Dual Core™ i7 M620@ 2.67 4GB RAM
                                    NVIDIA NVS 3100, 512 MB
                                    Windows® 8.1 64 bit
                                    SketchUp Pro 2015 version 15.3.331 64-bit

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                                      HP EliteBook 8440p Intel® Dual Core™ i7 M620@ 2.67 4GB RAM
                                      NVIDIA NVS 3100, 512 MB
                                      Windows® 8.1 64 bit
                                      SketchUp Pro 2015 version 15.3.331 64-bit

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                                        HP EliteBook 8440p Intel® Dual Core™ i7 M620@ 2.67 4GB RAM
                                        NVIDIA NVS 3100, 512 MB
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