FAQs about illustration and 3d illustrators :

What elements provide an illustrator before the phase of creation?

Why use a freelance 3d illustrator directly rather than illustrators representatives?

Why, in matter of 3d illustration, using a 3d freelance illustrator rather than a design studio employing more people?

What is 3d illustration?

In how much time the illustration will be created?

What is the cost of a 3d illustration?

What elements provide an illustrator before the phase of creation?

The most information as possible about what you would get in the end, the works from an artists knowing your needs and desires over the result will be optimal. It can be difficult sometimes to come back to post some details, without affecting the quality of the final work and its dynamics, if it's not possible to redo the whole picture. 

Also, often the illustration will be part of an ad, including a slogan, logo and other graphic elements, a pre-model with the colors, and placement of elements can greatly help the development of the 3d illustration, the choice of colors, contrast. Often, for example, there are reminders of colors between the graphic elements of the ad and some elements of the illustration and have two different tones can be detrimental to the final ad.

Why use a freelance 3d illustrator directly rather than illustrators representatives?

Since the advent of the Internet, 3d illustrators can present their work easily and at low cost, to all potential customers, they also manage by themselves the commercial aspect of their work, making traditional illustration agencies most often unnecessary. 

At the economic level, illustration agencies require fairly substantial royalties, 15 to 25% depending on the experience of the illustrator, which inevitably increases the final price, also, if an agency is large and represents illustrators, it have to search only the most financially attractive operations, the operator depends on achievements in the best economic aspect of 3d imagery and artists forced to raise their prices to survive, very profitable contracts are rare.

Why, in matter of 3d illustration, using a 3d freelance illustrator rather than a design studio employing more people?

Studios are turning more often to the animation rather than the 3d illustration itself, due to investment in equipment and personnel, costs and final performance is much higher in this context that for still pictures.

Communication : A freelance 3d illustrator is an individual, familiar with all aspects of the work required in detail, managing also commercial aspect.

Flexibility : When the process of creating 3d requires the work of several people together, it can be difficult and risky to modify some aspects of the realization at the last minute to better fit the request of the final customer, a freelance 3d illustrator guides you to the solutions that best suit the different situations at any time.

What is 3d illustration?

Based on the 3d imaging techniques and those of traditional illustration, 3d illustration seen strong growth in recent years, flexible, economic and actual. 

The process of creating such images is as follows: 

- Creation of rough. 

- 3d Modeling of the object (creation of the model with the functions of a modeling software, from simple shapes, curves and shape). 

- Application of materials on objects. 

- Creation of lighting. 

- Calculation of the final image.

In how much time the illustration will be created?

With inanimate objects, times have ranged from 2 hours for a simple object (chair, cover, bottle, bottle, simple vehicle ...) several days in the case of a more complex object (car replica, detailed illustration from technical plans...) 

For all that people, animals, 3d mascots, the delay is about a week, including research and roughs, such achievements asking a great concern for detail, in terms of expressions and feelings.

What is the cost of a 3d illustration?

The calculation is done on an hourly basis, depending on the time spent on the illustration, approximately 60 $ per hour in the most typical cases. The publishing rights are included, usually for 1 year, print and web.

In some cases, when the use of technology are required, an extra may be required in addition.

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