Someone asked me: “How much should I charge for the project?”
So I’ve answered: “How much are you worth?”
Well actually what I’ve meant to say, is how much is your “time” worth?
Different projects, different requirements, different skills level, hardware,
software, working from home or having office to pay for…
All this is taken in to confederation while calculation your price.
So talking general all depends on the market. For example in Germany
It’s all depends with what company do you work, some companies can pay good
money some don’t, so do your research on your client first, try to see with
whom this company worked before, then you’ll be able to draw conclusions.
In
Russian market we take $500-800 per room, we supply 2-3 renders. When the room
is ready it’s easy to make more than one render to satisfy the client. Give it
as a bonus, you’ll get much appreciation, and win a coming back client.
After all it’s all about building good contacts. Satisfied clients always will
recommend you to their friends and you’ll be able to grow on this positive wave
of success.
Building good reputation sometimes more important than just making money!
This is the basic strategy our business.
Important note: You can always “spy” on
the competition and see how much money other freelancers get for doing their
job. Of course the level of performance has to be the same, I’m not taking
about newbies trying to cash “Hollywood Film” budgets, so be real and
reasonable.
Ok so how do you do it?
How much money you need to
charge for a project?
Here’s
a simple procedure that is very essential for your market investigation. So
you’ll be aware of competition and prices for different job offers.
The easiest way is to make an account at freelancers platforms, like www.freelancer.com www.odesk.com www.99deisigns.com and see how much money those freelancers charge and how much money firm got to
offer. From my knowledge prices range are between $15-60 per hour, depends on
the country, Indian and Philippians can work for a whole month and get $300-400
dollars. However European will ask for much more.
But I tell you from my experience that professional firms prefer to work with
freelancers that close or at least at their time zone.
So you can make a search for jobs by demographics, and the best sites to do
that are:
http://www.utopiapeople.com/
http://www.3djobs.com/
If
you still couldn’t find something close to you, I warmly recommend you to sign
in to those websites in order to get instant updates about the job market. Who
knows? Maybe the next job in their list was meant for you. So by subscribing to
their newsletter you’ll be one of the first to see that offer.
Another thing to do is to call or send email to a company and ask them to make
you a proposal for designing a room, write all the details you want to know,
like, 3Dsmax and VRay, classic design..etc. Send it to several companies that
supply 3D images similar to your level. There are a lot of companies or
freelancers that do not provide High-End 3D renders, just google them. You can
send them their work as well and say that you want to make something similar to
that, and get a proposal from them about the times and money. I do it every
time when I move to the new country and I need to get familiar with the prices.
There
are a huge amount of platforms and job offers, I just gave you the most
interesting in today’s market. But here is few more, go to their Jobs board and
see what these guys got to offer.
http://www.3dtotal.com/
http://www.cgarena.com/
http://www.gamasutra.com
So
keep it real folks! and if you want to learn how to build a successful business
that will bring you enough staisfaction and financial freedom to do what ever
you want!
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