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Joses8112

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Hey guys,

How much will you charge for a rendering like this, very simple, first job after learning revit, Thanks

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Depends on the size of the project in $$.  I'm assuming you mean how much YOU should charge your client, I recommend taking the time it took you to create said rendering, including the computer hours (i.e.- if it is rendering, then you are still working, even if you are home in bed).  Charge your highest billing rate, and perhaps add a couple percent for padding and negotiation wiggle room should you end up needing it... If this is too high then you'll have to come down, but unfortunately, there isn't any given price table, etc.

As to me, if I had to make that model, the rendering would be a small cost eaten up by the budget of the project, i.e.- pad your budget to include the wow factor, because you WILL want to render / screen capture marketing material, to show off your whares and abilities.

Now for my honest guess, perhaps $150 to $200, at the high end, I personally wouldn't pay more if I were the client, and that is the bottom line, whatever amount you specify, the client has to be able to A) have the money and B) Be willing to spend the money.

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Joses8112

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Thanks for your response,

As you can see this was a very simple rendering my client need it, nothing really fancy.

This is my first job and I really dont know how much to charge him, Your are saying that no more than $200, and I kind of agree with you, I spend aprox 5 hours.

So a $30/hour rate sounds good for you.

Thanks for your response. and any other suggestions are very welcome.

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itsmyalterego

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Very hard to say.  Our firm doesn't bill so rigidly.  If our clients ask, or we feel we need to impress them, we'll give them a 500MB walkthrough video.  It boils down to hours spent on the project though.  If I'm sitting at my computer watching a render render for 1/2 an hour... well, I bill at close to 200 I think, so, that's 100 dollars.  But it's just general time spent on the project.  Renders are part of the job, not something extra any more.

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for client renders just to get a feel for the context of the project I give as freebies. Anything done for marketing materials for clients is billed at an hourly rate tyipically becuase they involve physical materials, lighting and compositing. If you do not have a graphics billing rate just use your production rate. 

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My opinion

Rendering used to be a special skill only a few could do it, either the hand renders (artists) or the skilled 3Dmaxers who specialize in 'exotic' software that most of us never learned to use, so they could get away with billing high.  (supply and damand)

Now things have changed, with Revit anyone can render with practice and the bonus is you are already building the building so you only have to hit the render button (with a little extra work to get the materials and lighting etc.. right)  But again it doesn't take an extra skill set or software to do so.  I can work on the file on one machine and have it render on another machine so there isn't any extra work involved, I tend to build models as I would like to see them so my materials and lights are already correct so pushing a button is no extra charge.  I must admit, I do find myself tinkering with Renders a little too much to get them jussssst right, but because of Revit I have the extra time to tinker with renderings.

Revit is changing this industry, some are able to do more work because of it and some are losing a specialty skill because of it.  If you can get a few extra bucks on the side, I would bill at an hourly rate, what do you think your time is worth and go from there.

As alabaster says, marketing is a different story.

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But to eat my words a little, there are some very talaneted users that do mix it up with Revit, photoshop, 3Ds and some other softwares that can make some mind blowing renders that I will never be able to come close to.  Revit has just brought me a new skill set that I found easy to use.

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I want to know how can I calculate the total cost with revit???

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