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How Does One Get Rendering and 3D Work In These Fields?

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    Gus R
    last edited by 16 days ago

    I was looking at some of my recent renderings and wondering, how is it that I'm not getting work? Well, here's my latest attempt.

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      Rich O Brien Moderator
      last edited by 16 days ago

      Is it regional only work? Is it strictly Archviz for residential or commercial?

      Maybe broaden your scope to include interior design, landscaping, shadow analysis etc...

      You've definitely got the skills so its just marketing yourself. Its tough out there because international prices rule.

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        Gus R @Rich O Brien
        last edited by 16 days ago

        @Rich-O-Brien I think "real estate" has been taken over by capitalist vultures that just don't care for rendering and it's all boiler plate venture capitalist trends. Mostly burning money.

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          Gus R @Rich O Brien
          last edited by 16 days ago

          @Rich-O-Brien I look at that Contrail SD45 smoking a splif and thing "WTF that's magnificent.

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            Box
            last edited by 16 days ago

            Slap on a huge tariff and everything will come good.

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              Rich O Brien Moderator @Gus R
              last edited by 15 days ago

              @Gus-R said in How Does One Get Rendering and 3D Work In These Fields?:

              @Rich-O-Brien I look at that Contrail SD45 smoking a splif and thing "WTF that's magnificent.

              Maybe getting a shop on turbosquid or FAB selling models?

              You can sell them here too if you wish.

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                Gus R @Rich O Brien
                last edited by 15 days ago

                @Rich-O-Brien How much do you think my EMD SD45 is worth?

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                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                  last edited by Rich O Brien 5 Sept 2025, 13:42 15 days ago

                  turbosquid.com

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                  8 cars + 2 engines = $550 according to this listing.

                  I suppose its whatever you feel it is worth. Those are ~$50 per model which seems like a good price considering the work involved.

                  If I desperately needed a high quality model of a train it good value.

                  I know a company that buys his ship models for port training videos and those are $120/ship

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                    Gus R @Rich O Brien
                    last edited by 15 days ago

                    @Rich-O-Brien Maybe $120 for one locomotive. I've never done this before. The native model is Sketchup. Do I need maybe like a Blender file and could it's just be a base model without materials? What's the commission for selling over Sketchucation? Can I sell a Sketchup model over CGTrader et al?

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                      Gus R
                      last edited by 15 days ago

                      Craigslist, Bluesky and Instagram isn't working.

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                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                        last edited by 15 days ago

                        Go signup at TurboSquid and see whats up with it. That would be the premiere place to sell models like your trains.

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                          Mike Amos
                          last edited by 15 days ago

                          My ten pence worth is that the Squid seems more sales oriented, with the occasional freebie, they definitely seem to get more traffic than the throttled sites.

                          Your product is definitely high end so I believe you would do OK to well.

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                            Gus R @Mike Amos
                            last edited by 15 days ago

                            @Mike-Amos Squid looks interesting. Only problem is converting the SU models to anything like max, obj or blender.

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                              L i am
                              last edited by L i am 5 Oct 2025, 07:26 14 days ago

                              One thing that is an issue with this arch vis work is that there are companies like fiverr etc,that is a multi national site. There are with a people that do modelling, rendering graphic design, logo design etc, etc. There are thousands of them. Some of these people will work for very little money and will do a project for the equivalent of 5 dollars an hour, And they are making money where cost of living is so low and the exchange rate is very favourable. Then there are agents working in most countries like Australia an Australian company, where you can go to the agent and get a SU model of a house for 450 Aussie dollars. They have subcontractors from Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh etc that will supply SU models for around a hundred dollars.the Australian company will quality control the model and on sell it for $450 AUD. The people in the aforementioned counties are living well and no reasonable person could blame them.

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                                Mike Amos @Gus R
                                last edited by 14 days ago

                                @Gus-R

                                I can convert stuff you need converted most of the time, just a case of logistics.

                                Blender can be useful for .fbx.

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                                  L i am
                                  last edited by 14 days ago

                                  you can convert SketchUp's SKP files to Blender. You can either use the built-in SKP importer in Blender or export the model from SketchUp in a compatible format like Collada (DAE), OBJ, or FBX, then import that into Blender.

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