Get Paid, Not Played!
Good news: Senators Robach and McDonald have both signed on as co-sponsors of the Freelancer Payment Protection Act.
This crucial win puts us in a much stronger position to get it passed because both senators sit on the Labor Committee – the group that needs to review our bill. Even better, Senator Robach is the committee’s chairman.
And it’s a direct result of your work: many of you attended meetings with your senators to lobby them, and provided your own personal stories of nonpayment so we could share them with legislators.
That’s what it takes: all of us coming together to make our voices heard. And it’s working.
Please visit Senator Robach's Facebook page and email Senator McDonald to thank them and let them know we’re grateful for and counting on their ongoing support of freelancers.
Best,
Sara Horowitz
Founder and Executive Director
P.S. We’re not letting up now: we’re sending a new member’s story every week about how deadbeat clients affect their livelihood. If you have a story you’d like to tell, please sign in to share it in The Freelance Life.
Capture and Delineate Ideas
The primary pupose of design studies is to cature and delinete ideas. Attractive drawing is desirable, to be sure, but it is secondary in importance to the visualization of the tenitive, nebulous concepts that are the initial steps to any architectural project. By necessity, you must work very closely with architects, designer, and other planners to translate their thoughts into a tree-dimensional forms. Through all stages of an architectural project, your work is a valuable means of communication among the personnel and also between the architect and his client.
Whats its color
Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image. Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image. The more colorful the image, the better the results. Results will display your image on the best suited background for that image... http://whatsitscolor.com/
Bridges of Hope
I was asked to create some art, for the non-profit orginization Bridges of Hope, to be used for a fundraiser. Here is how it turned out!
New York Sun Deck
Here is a project, currently on the board, of a high-rise sun deck. The deck is currently not being utilized, and the building is under new management, so the developer commissioned me to illustration the sun deck's potential.
Shadow
To create the most pleasing shade and shadow pattern, light intesity should be greatest on the main facade (or facade at the least angle to the picture plane). Secondary or receding walls receive less intensity and are lightly shaded.
Cast shadows should be deep enough to strengthen and emphasize the eve line, but not so deep as to overpower the architectural design with a too-heavy effect.
Deadlines
Ideally an assignment is given enough time in advance to allow ample time for proper thought and execution. Like it or not, the tyranny of the deadline is one of the harshest facts of an illustrator's life. The sooner you learn to live with it the better. It is also an excellent teacher; having to meet a deadline is a sure way to developed skills and temperament demanded for quick competent drawings.
Employ Your Services
Average laymen, including many actively enaged in construction and development, find it extremely difficult to visualize the project from bulky plans, elevations, details, diagram, and other specifications included in a set of working drawings. Your knack for translating them into attractive three-dimensional form will be a major reason for others to employ your services
Introduction to Modeling in 3ds Max 2012
I have just completed the digital-tutors video series call, "Introduction in 3ds Max 2012" 5 hrs. 11 min. | 10/03/2011 | 3ds Max 2012 | Author: Joshua Kinney
In this collection of lessons we will learn about the different modeling techniques available in 3ds Max 2012 to create a future concept bike. In this series of lessons we'll be discussing some the introductory methods for modeling in 3ds Max 2012 and you should begin to develop techniques that will complement your own style of modeling. Through out these lessons, we will learn a variety of different modeling methods, such as spline modeling that will allow you to easily model irregular objects with ease. Then we'll learn how to use primitive geometry to build some of the more complex objects of our concept bike. We'll also be introduced to several of the common tools used for modeling in 3ds Max. Finally, we'll learn how to create some basic materials for our bike to create some really stunning 3d renders. By the end of this course, you should have a solid grasp of the different modeling techniques and begin coming up with a modeling style that works best for you