05 Jul 15:07
--I see your work, and it's tons of environment stuff. And then you get to work on creature design?
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05 Jul 15:07
--Yeah yeah. I'm wondering how you got to pull of this Jedi mind trick of a stunt.
05 Jul 15:05
--1/2 1/2. They just want a basic concept, US200. Figured it was a good ratio.
05 Jul 15:04
--My usual hourly rate is 40US, and I do tend to stick to it...but mostly I go overtime if I'm not happy with the piece
05 Jul 15:02
--clients do make me lol. Hey we love your stuff....awesome...can you do this creature? *no creatures to be seen in my stuff
05 Jul 15:00
--Mostly now, I just push myself by accepting stuff that I wouldn't normally do. Eg got some creature concepts to do, had a bunch of figure focused stuff to do, and possibly spaceship design as well. None of these are in my folio
05 Jul 14:59
--We don't get any monetary benefit from the time spent...but besides the warm inner glow of helping people, I've now learned skills like how to approach people, and work with them. collaborate and delegate stuff. Project management in a loose sense. 4 months ago I was anxious about contacting big name artist for this...now it's no big deal.
05 Jul 14:57
--ah no worries if it doesn't, it was my choice to do that after all. He didn't force me to use 3D :) That brings up another point like with CC.
05 Jul 14:57
--But that story is just insane. That at least a weeks worth of running the show at a very low rate haha!
05 Jul 14:56
--I'm totally gonna moving matte the shit out of my next enviro paintings haha
05 Jul 14:55
--So yeah, that's the trade-off with perfectionism and pushing past your limits, with client work. If you do it big, you might lose big on the money side, but there was a LOT of upskilling involved, so I'm pleased with that
05 Jul 14:50
--Bonus though....the client was ecstatic, incredibly happy. If they get proper funding for their tv series, guess who gets to go back as a matte painter for the other shows
05 Jul 14:49
--Not a sustainable practice at that level, so I know how to do better next time I guess
05 Jul 14:48
--But technically I was paid to learn how to do 3d pretty damn well again, and I even learned how to do moving mattes and all sorts of other stuff
05 Jul 14:48
--And actually Piotr helped me with the photobashing side, and HE spent ages on it as well, and we split the "profits" lol.