ikinman

Actually when I started this thread, I wasn't trying to limit discussion to just a US-based idea. In fact, I was actively trying to separate out that loaded discussion from the larger one of creating a loose organization of modelers and renderers, and what the merits of that idea might be.

As I see it there are two potential ideas here that I feel are worth exploring. One is to create a more collaborative based community, an online place where people can gather to team up on a project by project basis. The other would be in a sense a more freelance-based 'job board' (if you want to use that term) but one that I think would need to be more centrally controlled, so that guarantees could be made to clients for, as was mentioned, good turn around time and good service.

Of course both of those ideas are not mutually exclusive. And as Ernest has pointed out, back in the dark days of 1991, when work totally dried up in New York City, The New York Society of Renderers (NYSR) was such a community (though not then online) where people threw work at each other when they needed help. A little different than what I mention above, but it's certainly one such idea of renderers working together.