Ryland Fox

You can’t really lump Rhino in with 3ds. It is a drafting program. Anyone using autocad can pick it up pretty quickly. Plus it isn’t expensive.

As far as learning 3ds, if you are a student Autodesk has learning editions of all their software available on their site for free, many tutorials and curriculum, also there are many tutorials on the…[Read more]

Unfortunately I have not projects in BIM. Currently in my working life parametrics/BIM remain an outside interest that I do when I can. That said, I do have an upcoming outside project coming up that I am going to try to use Revit or DP for. Though I foresee frustration levels rising. I could see a decent use for DP being in the conceptual stages…[Read more]

Ah well I guess that is still well less than Catia costs.

DP was definitely never easy to learn and even harder to teach but once into it the power of the program was kind of captivating. It was worth learning because it gave me a good basis in parametrics/parametric thinking and has made subsequent programs a lot easier to get the hang of.

I…[Read more]

Agreed on revit and archicad. And on that front Digital Projects, though the expense can be high. After many, many hours invested in DP I despair to find a firm using it. Maybe at some point in the future.

Pretty much all my modeling is done in Rhino and translated to Max or Maya. I never really liked modeling in Max but it is getting more…[Read more]

Definitely brushes. you can download free sets from many places.

Here is a link to a bunch
http://designm.ag/resources/photoshop-nature-brushes/

Well, Skillwise i think that is where the mentorship comes in which takes another year. I am not to sure of any books that would covers admin, fee proposal etc. but there are many people practicing here who aren’t registered so it isn’t a huge deal anyway. though recommended.

Download the guide to registration, it should help you out with registration stuff
http://www.aila.org.au/membership/reg-info.htm

It looks like you have the minimum work experience though just the bare minimum. you would need to go through mentorship though

Are you a graduate or have you been practicing for awhile?

I thought people might be interested in this link. Shows step by step process of sketchup to photoshop for a watercolour style. quite interesting with good results

http://www.ronenbekerman.com/architectural-illustration-digital-2d-3d-watercolor-technique/

Also print it as a postscript file and then use distiller to experiment on pdf sizes and quality.

300dpi is huge. screen dpi is 72 and you can get good print quality at not much higher.

This will give you a good idea of what to get based on what you are going to do.

http://www.3datstech.com/2010/03/april-2010-workstations.html

Rhino. Maya is a great program but the learning curve is fairly steep.

Depends on the city. Sydney is slower than say Melbourne, which seems to be going okay. there is a lot of Vectorworks and microstation usage here. Go to the AILA page (http://www.aila.org.au) look at the firm list of where you are going and contact some firms that you are interested in now. You never know what will happen, i too was here for 2 years and…[Read more]

Definitely Paley Plaza. Zion did the island that the statue of liberty is on also, it is quite nice. plus that boat ride isn’t bad. Any of M Paul Freidberg’s stuff you can get to.

Vray is amazing but most tutorials are for the studio max version. I will reference this video – http://vimeo.com/7809605