Commission Question

[enosage]

Hello, my name is Derek and I am a 3d graphics designer at the Seminole Community College Planetarium and as well as Freelance. However, I just started free lancing and I am not familiar about the common pay rates as well of normal hours of work. I have attached the 3d logo I did for a company, and I was wondering how much something like this would be worth. It took me about 5 hours to do (most of the work was critiquing the textures). Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks

[PrintDriver]

Hi enosage. Welcome to the forum.

Did you design the logo or make an existing logo 3D?

As for worth? Just the logo? And turning over a vector .eps? Or a whole identity package?

PD is a grande format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

[enosage]

I basically took a conceptual logo and remade it in illustrator as a vector, then I went into 3d studio max to extrude it and changed the iteneration and fixed the edges to make it smooth. That was the easy part, however the hard part was getting the desired metalic shiny look, which was the time consuming part. But yes, the logo was wholy done by me except for the conceptual CCW drawing which was given to me, it was very basic and not 3d, just black and white text.

[bdamit]

Hi Enosage.

The characters CC and W are good and strong, but I'm wary of the grey tones in the CC part. I think they are to similar, and might cause problems in low light or BW reproduction. Are you limited to BW/grey tones, or is colour a possibility.

Although you have spend a good deal of time with the texture, I feel you could get a more striking result with some form of cell shaded colour on the CC part, and leave the W as it is.


As for the rate of pay, it is hard to say, as I often find the price varies between job, client, location, the number of hours worked etc.

We're filling up the 3D forum nicely!

[PrintDriver]

What format is the logo in now that it is 3D? Still Vector?

The only reason I'm in the 3D forum at the moment is I build 3D signs and saw 'logo'. And unless I made that logo literally 3D in a metal of some kind I would hate to have to reproduce it any other way because it would need to be a flat print. Especially if it was now a raster file with a fixed resolution. It might be a flat pixellated print. Even a metal sign requires scaleable vector art.

If you've 3D'd the logo as part of an animation presentation, that's a whole different story.

ps, check your detail between the 2 C's. The white space is too small to look intentional.

PD is a grande format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing