Sorry I have been away for a long time.
I live in France. My point of view is: If the client can pay , why not ?!!!
Of course you can keep your price low to have more work.... But I was sure this client will never call me back ( he was in the hurry and have no other choise than work with me (his graphist was not free) )
As I said , my client was not the final client. So I am sure that he sold my pics more than 1000 euro / view to the final client.
I was very busy, working on an other project. I was not upset to not have this project....
I called some friends experienced in archi, they told me to start with 1000 euro/view. But I was unable to know how much work I had to do ( the client asked me to give a price before to show me the job to do !! ...). The only info I had was : "it must be realistic ! and how much for 4 views of an appartement"
I bought Kray, I learned Kray in one week...(I spend a little more than 1 month - the reel time is 2 weeks - because my client was not pro)) and voilà. the job was done, the final client was very , very, very happy ( this is the feedback I got).
Since, I have no news and I will certainly never work again with this client, because I was "expensive".
He's very happy with the job done, it was better than he expected. But as I said, I was sure it was one shoot because he needed someone in the hurry. He is looking for cheap artist (he really don't care about the quality).
My client was not pro on this job.... ( not available for me, missing infos, feedback very late, wrong informations, hard critics, deadlines not respected, calling me during nights and holidays, etc.. ). So 1000 euros was not expensive for a view !! ahaha !
I have a big experience in commerical and Vfx, he was not scared to work with me (I sent my reel), he knows that I am an experienced artist. That's why I got the job at 4000 euros.
To find the good price for a job. I count how much days for modeling, texturing, rendering,etc... I add a price for phone calls, storage, DVDs, time spend in meetings, tests, software, plugins, oil (for car), etc... and I mutliply by my price/day.
of course you can imagine the price is very high at the final, but most of the time I am close to the reel time spend and I don't loose money.
When I was younger, many times I sold a work for one day or two, and at the end I spend 5 or 10 days !!! ... Now, I give a high price, if the the job goes well and fast, I reduce the price. It's more easy to work this way.
It's the first time I did archi and the last time too. :/ Of course, it's not always like this, but I know now that Archi is not what I like to do.
I really enjoyed to work with Kray (very good renderer, fast, very good antialiasing, easy to learn). I keep my copy
Perfect for archi !!
I just hope it will be open for other jobs ( I did a commercial for Bosch - I rendered a Washing-machine in full 3D with Kray ):) Too much features are missing for VFX !!
I am keeping an eye on Kray just in case.
mk
