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Brief: Name: Marlindo Dias Pontes Area of living: Macapá City, Amapá State, Country Brazil Company: Owner of MDP 3D Visualization Expertise: Interior and exterior Project duration: 2 – 3 weeks Software using: 3DsMax 2015, V-Ray 3.2, Photoshop CS6, Marvelous Designer 4 and a little bit of Autodesk Maya. You can find Marlindo: Marlindo Dias Pontes is a talented self-taught 3D artists from Brazil. He started his experiments in SketchUp in year 2010, later migrated to 3DsMax. Marlindo is a single artist in his studio and he dreams to create well-known name in his country. What differs Marlindo from other artists is that he will never take a project if he will not be able to deliver ultra-high quality result. – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? I demand from my clients the projects in DWG or DXF formats, which should contain all necessary measures. Also I need information to develop the project as much as artistic and for this I ask the clients to provide references on desired results. This way it will be much easier to achieve result expected by the customer. – How do […]

Brief: Name: Gustavo Coutinho Alves Area of living: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Company: Owner of Diffuse Virtual Studio, since 2009 Expertise: Mostly Interiors, but can do exteriors also. Project duration: 2 – 3 weeks Software using: 3DsMax, V-Ray, Photoshop, After Effects (just for small adjusts). You can find Gustavo: Gustavo Coutinho, as the owner of Brazilian CGI studio – Diffuse Virtual, most of his working time embodying the clients ideas into hyper realistic visualizations of interiors and product designs. He is absolutely passionate about architecture and 3D visualization, that’s why his studio won several award winning prizes in the field that they are very proud of. – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? The first thing we do after starting a project is asking client for the floorplans, all kinds of dwg and lots of reference information. The second step is to try to understand what the client really wants. What is his personal view of the project and what message he is trying to pass. It is a very important part of the process to understand the client’s needs and vision. – How do you […]

Brief: Name: Vitaly Iurov Area of living: Kiev, Ukraine. Company: Owner of YurovDesign, 7 years experience. Expertise: Interiors Project duration: 1 month. Software using: 3DsMax, V-Ray, Photoshop… You can find Vitali: Vitaly Iurov is a certified specialist in interior design. 3D visualization for him is an additional tool to provide his clients with an exceptional service. Dispite the fact that his main specialty is interior design, Vitali and his team a capable of engineering of country houses and other complex structures. Moreover Vitali is a self-taught 3D artist who won several local contests. – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? We have standard terms, so-called brief for a client. It includes questions about client’s family members, general requirements to the style and materials: colors, textures, lighting. For each functional area in interior, we ask all customer requirements, ranging from the number of bowls in the kitchen sink, to the desired shape and size of the sofa. – How do you work: in your own style or under clients guidance? Often, we are working in modern styles such as loft, minimalism and eclecticism. Accordingly the customer comes […]

Brief: Name: Javier Wainstein Area of living: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Company: Owner of JW Renders studio, since 2010 Expertise: Expert level in interior Project duration: 1 – 3 weeks Software using: SketchUp, 3DsMax and Vray You can find Javier: Looking at the 3D works made by Javier, you not always understand that these are not photos. For the person not from CG world these would be, no doubt, professional photos. Check out interview with Javier Wainstein self-taught 3D artists from Buenos Aires. – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? I start asking all the information available to it, CAD drawings, 3D files, photo references, materials, etc. The more information they send me, will better the final result. – How do you work: in your own style or under clients guidance? I work with a mix of both, I always try to keep my style, and impart it to final images. But logically, sometimes you have to follow the specific client orders. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions allowed to make? I have not defined that yet. It varies depending on the […]

Brief: Name: Andrii Rodych Area of living: Lviv, Ukraine Company: 3DVisDesign, since 2012 Expertise: Expert level in interior and exterior Project duration: 2 – 3 days Software using: 3DsMax, Corona render, Vray and Photoshop You can find Andrii: Andrii, whos career as 3d visualizer began in 2005, created a team with his friend Olena Chyslova. So two persons are main rod of the team – 3DVisDesign. But also they have talented people sometimes working with them on big projects. in general 5 persons with education degrees in architecture, interior design, furniture design. – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Initial information, task description and references. Very important when clients know what they want to see in final. – How do you work: in your own style or under clients guidance? Always depends from the task. For the most part we try to show our options for lighting or camera angles, better from our point of view, but if the customer insists on its variants we have to comply task. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions allowed to make? First we do […]

Brief: Name: Irinel-Ramona Florescu Area of living: Bucharest, Romania Company: Working as freelance 3D artist since 2010, interiordelight Expertise: Architect specialized in interior design Project duration: 5 – 7 days per image Software using: Rhinoceros, Marvelous Designer, Vray and Photoshop You can find Irinel: Irinel Florescu is a talented Interior designer with architecture degree from Bucharest. She is a freelancer who uses 3D visualization mainly to illustrate her ideas, but finds it extremely helpful in the creative process and enjoys it also as a stand alone activity. – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? First of all my primary activity is interior design; 3D visualization was a necessity that I grew to enjoy and became my second activity. But they go hand in hand, so I approach any project as an interior designer and all my views stem from that mindset. The clients I worked with can be roughly divided into two categories: those who have a complete project and need an artist to translate that into images and those who only have a general idea of what they want, but need a designer to come […]

Brief: Name: Marcin Kasperski Area of living: Rzeszow, Poland Company: as Freelancer since 2009 Expertise: Interior Project duration: 3 days – … Software using: Cinema 4D, V-ray, Photoshop You can find Marcin: – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? I think this is standard for everyone. All I need from client is architectural project, preferred in .pdf, because I do not use AutoCAD or any other software that can open .dwg files, several reference pictures and 3 days. – How do you work: in your own style or under clients guidance? That depends on whom I work with. I am an interior visualizer, not an interior designer. I cannot charge for something I’m not doing. I have a friend, she’s interior designer and if there is a need, I work with her on interior design. She get paid for design, I get paid for visualizations. So as you can see I have no other choice than work under guidance. But if I work with client directly and they gave me a free hand, of course client gets the final word. – How is you working process […]

Brief: Name: Aurélien Brion Area of living: Strasbourg, France Company: Working as freelancer 3D artist since 2006, in his company: Aurélien BRION Architecte /Graphiste Perspective Strasbourg Expertise: Exterior, Interior Project duration: 1 – 7 days per image Software using: 3DsMax, Vray, Corona and Photoshop You can find Aurélien: – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? First of all, I talk about project type and number of views which client would like to have. Another important details is the presence of the 3D model: do I need to do it, or client already have it. – How do you work: in your own style or under clients guidance? I always try to have my style, but it is always under the client guidance. Sometimes such guidance can even destroy a render. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions allowed to make? All projects are different, there is no strict rules for me. – Have you refused to do the project and if yes why? Yes of course, many times. Most often reason, because i was too busy with other projects or because the […]

Brief: Name: Lev Kononov Area of living: Minsk, Belarus Working as freelance 3D artist since 2009, in his spare time Expertise: Interior Project duration: 7 days – … Software using: 3DsMax, Vray, Corona and Photoshop You can find Lev: – Every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes. How do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Most often, customers have rather abstract idea of what they really want. Therefore, at this stage the main goal – to help the customer understand what he wants. Together we identifying style, functionality filling of a room, main future colors… – How do you work: in your own style or under clients guidance? Work performed for the client, which means the result should please him. But I must make proposals sometimes, because a client came to me as to a specialist, what’s why healthy initiative will never do any harm. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions allowed to make? 2-4 times – in most cases this is enough. This does not mean that I refuse to make adjustments more often. However, let’s not forget about a reasonable limit. – Have you refused to do the […]

Brief: Name: Saeed Amiri Area of living: Tehran, Iran Working as freelancer 3D artist more than 8 years. Owner of SaeedAmiri Expertise: Interior, Product visualization Project duration: 2-3 days per one shot Software using: 3DsMax, Z-brush, Marvelous Designer, SpeedTree, V-ray, Photoshop, After Effects… You can find Saeed: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? Client will send all documents whatever he wants. Most of documents are cad plans, materials, moods and etc. If client forget to send mood examples i ask him to do this step. I don’t find references by myself. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? No, I always work in my own style, but work performed for a client, which means the result should please him. I like white and minimal interiors and lofts. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions do your clients get? My working process is the same as other artists […]

Brief: Name: Romas Noreika Area of living: Colchester, United Kingdom Working as part-time freelancer 3D artist more than 9 years. Owner of Romas Noreika Interior Design Expertise: Interior, Exterior Project duration: 3 days and more… Software using: 3DsMax, V-ray, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop… You can find Romas: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? As I always say: “Every project and every client is unique”. I think the most important things are drawings: DWG plans. After that of course all the colors and furniture spec. etc… This is if I’m not creating the design myself. Usually I try to gather as much information as possible in the beginning. If the client do not provide me with the information I need, then I do not even start working on the project. Because you do not want to waste time and money back and forward. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? I always work […]

Brief: Name: Nguyen Quang Tuan Area of living: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Working in a studio Tuan Han Studio Expertise: Interior, Exterior – for 3 years Project duration: 3 days and more… Software using: 3DsMax, Photoshop… You can find Nguyen: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? Ordinary, customers send all information via e-mail. Project files may include: cad files, materials description, example of styles and other ideas which client may have. I will never start a project if information is not complete. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? It is all depend on project requirements and customer wishes. If a client have clear vision what he want to achieve, I work under his guidance. Sometimes client need my help in creating specific design style. In this case I try to talk to him first and understand his expectations, even if we are speaking on different languages. In this situation I […]

Brief: Name: Mark Lester Ocampo Area of living: Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. Working as: freelancer in spare time since 2011. Expertise: Interior/exterior. Project duration: 3 days and more… Software using: 3DsMax, Vray, Photoshop… You can find Mark: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? Every client is different yet my approach is not. I treat them all the same whether its huge or a small project. I start with narrowing their wants and dont’s, next is the number of views, pixel resolution and deadline. From that point, I will have a clear idea of the project’s complexity which I’ll start asking for their budget versus my actual calculation. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? Well, most of my freelance clients knows what they want beforehand, they are familiar with my approach in visualization (realism) which I believe is their reason in the first place for calling me. besides, Bahrain is a […]

Brief: Name: Phan Nguyen Area of living: Danang, Vietnam. Working as: DNG Visual studio owner. Expertise: Interior/exterior. Project duration: 3 days and more… Software using: 3DsMax, Vray, Photoshop… You can find Phan: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? Normally, I require the 2D drawing, evaluate the level of complexity and reach the agreement on the price. I often follow the same approach for most of the clients. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? First I’ll work my way, apply all of my skills, then I’ll edit in a few small requests from clients. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions do your clients get? The first stage: I model project based on 2D drawings sent by client. After this stage is done, client can request something to remodel. The second stage: Texturing, colors adding, lighting and environment… The third stage: Rendering – this is final stage. […]

Brief: Name: Andrey Mikhalenko Area of living: Minsk, Belarus Working as: iddqd studio owner. Expertise: Exterior / Interior Project duration: 3 days and more… Software using: 3DsMax, ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop… You can find Andrey: – How did you start your career in 3D? I became acquainted with 3D during my study in the 11th grade. It all started with my choice of specialty – “Interior Design”, and I was wondering where, how and what materials are used in the creation of interiors. Having surfed the internet, I found information about 3Ds Max. Well, in a few hours 3Ds Max and some other books were downloaded/installed on my computer. I started to study them bit by bit. At the beginning I tried Cinema 4D, Maya and other programs, but there were some problems with them. Sometimes l did not work for months, but starting from the second year at the university, my 3Ds Max time increased until it occupied all my time. Therefore, I opened 3Ds Max for the first time in the December 29, 2009, but more serious classes began in 2012. – Your main specialty in 3D? Basically, I specialize in the exterior. The interiors are also present, […]

Brief: Name: Muhammad Taher Area of living: Alexandria, Egypt. Working as: Owner of Taher Design Studio, since 2014 Expertise: Interior. Project duration: 7 days and more… Software using: 3DsMax, AutoCad, Marvelous Designer, SpeedTree, V-ray, Photoshop, You can find Taher: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? Every client is different in their requests and budgets. In the beginning i start by knowing their wishes, budget and deadline and anything that i might need in their project. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? Most of my clients have a specific idea of the style that they want to see in their project and of course i have to follow their standards. I also can suggest some ideas that will be helpful according to my experience. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions do your clients get? My working process is the same as other artists have and it […]

Brief: Name: Patrícia de Carvalho Area of living: Oporto, Portugal Working as: Owner of Perspectiva Interior studio, since 2012 Expertise: Interior and product visualizations Project duration: 10-14 days minimum… Software using: Cinema 4D, V-Ray, Photoshop You can find Patrícia: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? Each project always starts by collecting the required material for the development of the work, usually starts by requesting a short briefing that will give me the necessary guidelines for the project and the vision of what the client wants to achieve. Besides that, at product visualization the client always send me the respective 3D files of the products. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? Depends a lot on the client. Often the client’s idea is very concrete, both in terms of language, textures and decorative style of the environment in order to reach a targeted audience. Other times, the client only suggests a style […]

Brief: Name: Lunas Visualization Head office: Minsk, Belarus Number of offices: 2 Number of employees: 14 Expertise: Interior and Exterior and more… You can contact Lunas Visualization: – Who is the company founder? What was your motivation when you/they decided to start the company? The company was founded by us: Max Lykasov and Slava Oganesyan. We realized we make an outstanding product which can be sold on a global level. Besides we wanted to give young CG artists in our country an opportunity to show their worth as we saw a lot of potential in them. As experience has shown, we made the right decision. – What difficulties did you face in the early years of the company? What about today? The major challenge we faced at the first stage of communication with clients was the level of trust of Western companies to companies from Eastern Europe. Fortunately, this problem is solved after the first project is completed. Most companies become our loyal customers once they received our work. – How was it to get clients back in the early days, and how is it now? What do you do to get clients? Some interesting marketing tricks? We have a […]

Brief: Name: Dmitry Boldyrev Area of living: Minsk, Belarus Working as: One of the founders Logovo design-bureau Expertise: Interior Project duration: 3 days and more… Software using: 3DsMax, V-Ray/Corona, Photoshop… You can find Dmitry: – Tell me about your studio, who your are, what you do? At present, we, my friend and partner, work at our common project, it is design bureau Logovo and we want to spend more time and our strength on it. We’ve appeared at the market recently, for about a year, before it we have worked in different companies, but also in the sphere of the object -spatial design. But because of the constant cycle of crisis in our economy it’s necessary to be flexible what concerns our earnings. It exhausts and is reflected on the conceited aims. I understand well those who leaves for abroad to work. Before design-bureau creation I was doing part-time freelance. But for now, such kind of work more seldom appears in my life. I want to pay more attention to something important and freelance is more often conveyor work. But not everything depends on a concrete situation and freelance remains still as one of the basic variants to earn money. […]

Brief: Name: Nguyen Ba Dung Area of living: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Working as: Founder at 4pixos Studio & 4pixos Training since 2012 Expertise: Exterior, Interior, Urban Planning… Project duration: 1 week and more Software using: Corona Renderer You can find Dung: – How long are you in 3D visualization? Almost 6 years now. – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? It may vary from client to client but there are 2 kinds of information that I will need to start the project: First is – technical information: 2D Drawings or 3D Models Furnitures and Materials Schedule RCP Location, environment surroundings… Second – aesthetic directions: Lighting scheme ( day, dusk.. ) Preferred style of rendering The most important thing to a successful co-operation is to get to know each other. Especially with your long-term clients. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? Every client has a different taste and style preferences. […]

Brief: Name: Konstantinos Anninos Area of living: Penzance, UK Working as: Freelancer for 15 years, own studio: annkos Expertise: Exterior, Interior, product presentation Project duration: from 2 days Software using: 3dsmax, vray, corona, photoshop You can find Konstantinos: – Assuming every project starts from collecting materials and client’s wishes, how do you negotiate with clients? What do you ask for? Do you follow the same approach for all clients or is it different for every client? I am always asking about all the available dwg plans and if possible, photo references pretty much about everything, from materials, furniture to lightning style they like. – Do you work in your own style or under the client’s guidance, and what types of projects are the most interesting to you? The most of the times I’m trying to mix clients requests with my personal taste. I like more the modern/minimal styles, but every kind of design is a challenge for me to deliver the best possible output. – How is you working process look like? How many revisions do your clients get? Not every client is the same so I like have a discussion with the client before start the project and I […]