Is it even worth it? (General Question about ArchViz)

[heartlessphil]

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There was a time but I think it’s in the past that guys were getting upwards of $100.00 per second for Architectural animations, but now that everyone and their mother has a bootleg copy of 3ds Max those days are gone. UE4 is not going to bring them back either because everyone that knows 3ds Max and sees a UE4 interactive will jump on the boat.

In addition it may be 20k but did it take 3 months and cost 5K in assets, software, render farms etc.?

Actually I have the contract in .pdf and the studio had 2 weeks. (my guess is that they outsourced a part of it, maybe) and it was indeed 100$/sec for 1 min movie + 1500 to 1900$ per image! You are right that it’s going to be cheaper to make movies with unreal but it may not be that much easier. Unreal isn’t that easy to learn. They can jump on the unreal boat but it does not mean they can produce quality stuff.