Forum: Carrara


Subject: Making money off 3D design work...

ominousplay opened this issue on Apr 18, 2010 · 14 posts


kedo1981 posted Fri, 28 May 2010 at 12:20 PM

I work at a division of one of the best known corps in the world (the one that starts with a K).

We make a group of products that is entirely unique from the rest of the company, so we do a lot of our own training media in house, training seen by field service and customers.

Our product designs are done in Solidworks and I transform the SW files to a format that Carrara can animate.

Solidworks can make animations the same way that windows “Draw” can compete with Photoshop.

I tend to render the anims as frames and usually do some further editing in After Effects and or Vegas (the best video editing software “period”).

I’m also the goto guy for all things video.

About 75% of my output is done in C6 Pro.

I have animation being used world wide and some playing at an international trade show (IPEX).

The stuff at IPEX is used on marketing videos, my part is only about 10 seconds worth but the rest probably cost 50k plus to produce and took a team do while my part I did in 8 hours at my desk all by my lonesome.

I must admit apart from making about 12k less than I should I have a cool dream job.