Thanks for your comment. The three weeks deadline is not really a hard deadline. I am a newbie freelancer that is teamming up with an architect. He gets lots of projects like these and wanted to have someone full time to do quick turnaround. So we need to reearch and etablish a good and reliable routine that will be great for the future works. We can download trial version and see the best product and purchase it. At this point we know we will not have a top notch performance in three weeks. We will be patient in learning. Thanks for your realistics view.

John Hostick 27 August 2008 03:17 PM

3 weeks to design, model, texture, furnish, light and animate a project? Unless you are very experienced in arch viz and already have a team with a software and hardware infrastructure in place...it ain’t gonna happen. Or, at least, not at a high level of quality.

I spent several years as a supervisor at a viz house, and to complete a project like the one you have described in three weeks I would have assigned at least 3 people (maybe 4) to meet the deadline. Modeling and animating the project will actually be the easiest elements to complete. The bulk of your time will be spent furnishing the model (both interior furnishings and exterior landscaping), lighting the model, and rendering. A fully furnished interior scene can easily take 20 mins per frame or more to render. For example, modeling, furnishing, lighting, animating and rendering 5 rooms of a condo project took 4 people nearly three weeks to complete, and that was utilizing a 60 CPU render farm. Granted, not all 4 worked on the project for the full span, but there was at least a week and a half when all four were fully tasked on the project.

The fact that the project hasn’t even been designed yet is going to kill your deadline. You need to sit down with your client and work out a more realistic deadline, or, in the end, no one will be happy.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but as things are, you are asking for a lot of grief.

As a final note, at this point, don’t waste your time with Revit. It takes way more than 3 weeks to get to even a basic level of productivity in that software. The $5500 you spend on Revit would more productively spent on setting up a basic render farm.

I freelance this sort of work, and I would be glad to help you out. Please send an e-mail to my member profile and we’ll figure something out.

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