Re: C3/C4 Projects (also - job ideas?) 2005-04-02 - By Glen Allen
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Hiya,
Just wanted to say thanks for the ideas; it's interesting to see how
other people are making a living doing this stuff!
What I'm really hoping to do is find a job at a company as a developer
(that's where my formal training is), but in a company that might let me
sidestep to some graphics work occasionally. This would avoid the
question of stealing clients, since I'd be doing the work for them and
only them... The idea of manufacturing companies hadn't occurred to me;
thanks, I'll consider that one for sure!
Cheers,
Glen
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From: keysersozekill [mailto:keysersozekill@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:51 PM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: [Carrara] Re: C3/C4 Projects (also - job ideas?)
Glen,
Doug's got some good advice there about knocking on manufacturing
companies' doors
(in my experience the ones with in-house art departments are easier to
hook). Ad agencies
are trickier, but if you can build some trust and convince them that
you're not going to
steal their clients, they'll throw you some work now and then. I've done
renderings for a
wide variety of businesses -- medical, editorial, electronics, software,
communications,
trolling motors, fishing reels and lures, toys, and heavy industry --
some of it for their
internal use and some of it for business-to-business print. There's very
good money to be
made, and, as Doug said, the clients can get pretty excited about the
the work. It
eventually starts to sell itself.
A quick example: A few weeks ago a new client of mine had spent a lot of
money
photographing a beautiful location shot of their products only to
discover too late that
their art director had incorrectly mounted some of the parts. It was too
spendy to reshoot,
so they called me. I built accurate models, matched the perspective,
texture and lighting,
and dropped the corrected parts into the photo in a few hours. The
client was
flabbergasted when he saw that even the shadows and reflections around
the products had
been corrected. Now they act as if I'm George Lucas or something.
Seriously. They enjoy
seeing the magic of it and really seem to be eager now to give me
projects that go beyond
mere retouching. Very rewarding. :-)
J
--- In Carrara@(protected), Douglas Alden Peterson <visualeyes@(protected)>
wrote:
> Glen Allen said:
> > My question is what type of industry do you think would be good for
> > that type of career? I'm considering TV stations, maybe
advertising
> > companies...any ideas?
>
>
> Glen,
>
> I think you shouldn't spend your time schmoozing
> ad agencies. I think the folks who need your
> services are small manufacturing companies;
> companies too small to hire someone to do CAD
> work but who need illustrations of their *proposed*
> products. Every town has a bunch of these small
> companies. I'll bet you can get work from them
> if they know you can make products "real" for them.
>
> In my own business I can tell you that, even though
> 3D work isn't the bulk of what I do, nothing receives
> more praise from my clients. They see their product
> come to life and they get wet all over. :-)
>
> In the past two months, I've done Carrara illustrations
> for four such companies: A book publisher who wants
> to see how their book will look before it goes to the printer, a
> manufacturer who wants to promote a free brochure in a trade
> magazines, a builder who wants to sell homes before they are built,
> and a tool manufacturer who is trying to raise money to introduce a
> new power tool to the marketplace.
>
>
>
> Doug
> --
> Douglas Alden Peterson
> Graphic & Web Design; Illustration
> Visualeyes
> Brighton, MI USA
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