SandmanNinja

That would be great! First shout is on me...

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Justin Hunt

When you are in town drop me a line

JHV

guitarboy

im in brisy anyway so pretty much anytime is fine for me

just out of curiosity, how old r some of u guys, and what sort of experience do you have, work wise and study wise???

mahorela

gonna be a while before I'm in brisso unfortunately.

as for experience.......bout 4 years give or take, I'm 27 and I'm self taught

I'm actually a business graduate

got a feeling that Justin is the elder statesman

guitarboy

haha, i might be the youngin then coming in at 21, have to wait and see i guess. ive been self teaching myself for about 9 months now. no job experience of any sort yet, but keen as to start, just hard to get ones foot in the door.

SandmanNinja

I'm 41 and have been self-instructing myself for about a year.

No work in any sort of 3D (arch, modeling, 'mechs) yet, but work a self-employed business of interior photography for recently-built houses for architects and home builders.

I'd like to extend what I do to include interior modeling. If I did that, I'd be a very happy camper.

I'm in Ballarat - about an hour or so west of Melbourne - and don't get up to Brissie much. I went to Townsville back in October 2006, but that was just for a holiday (on Orpheus Island - truly Paradise on Earth).

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guitarboy

Also meant to ask, whats peoples work flow regarding the programs they use?

for me, i do all my base modeling, all my structural stuff, walls, slabs, roofs, door and window cutouts, etc... in ArchiCAD, then i import my 3d model into 3d Studio Max where ill put in all the detail stuff, furniture, fittings, acceroires, etc...,then ill light, texture and render using vray. then if i do any post work, ill use photoshop afterwards.

i no alot of ppl will tell me i should stick to max for all my modeling, but for me, max is no where as easy to use as archicad is for these elements.

mahorela

There has been alot said on these forums about what it's best to model in and if you ask me it doesn't really matter. If you can produce your model in the same amount of time in archicad as you can in max.......there is no issue. I have made the point before that the less software licenses you need to buy the better, especially as a freelancer.......ie if you can model in max it saves you having to buy archicad which from memory is an expensive program but as far as I can see thats the only real advantage.

Just for the record my workflow is the same as yours except that I use max for my modelling.

guitarboy

Sounds good to me

the main reason i model in archicad is just because ive been using it for ALOT longer then Max, when i started archicad, didnt even know max existed. so i am much much quicker in archicad then max. i can model a tower in archicad in a few hrs that would take me days in max just due to my inexperience in it.

but once i get my head around lighting and textures and those other demons, i am planning on learning to model well in max and then move into max full time, but for now, i enjoy how im working.

Justin Hunt

32, been in the industry 13 years, semi self taught. worked in Cape Town, London, Melbourne and now Brisbane.

Depending on the project I either model in ADT, render in Max or do it all in Max. I have ne real preferance as to which package is better. For me its more improtant to be clean and effcient. Have a model that can be picked up by anyone so they are able to jump staight in and work.

As to lunch, name a time and place and I will be there.

JHV