Nance opened this issue on Aug 14, 2014 · 66 posts
wolf359 posted Sat, 16 August 2014 at 8:42 AM
............." As a freelancer you have to use the software that the studio or client you're working for requires, and most of them require autodesk or adobe. "
Well that depends on what kind of clients you service and the final delivery formats they require.
You are correct, of course, that many freelancers will have no choice but to have the latest builds
of the industry standard apps and that means going "cloud".
I for one ,am a "CG generalist"who only submits my finished work to clients in some final delivery format (HD video footage of an animation or hi res print resolution PDF's of 2D graphic design layouts)
wether I used the latest "cloud" version of Adobe CS,Autodesk MAX, or Cinema4D for the animation or 2D graphic is never even known to my freelance clients.
I never deliver Native scene files (.c4d, .PZ3.AI)
and my clients never request them as they are mostly laypeople who do not own nor have expertise in any of these CG apps themselves anyway.
Additionally I never involve myself in
Collaborative projects with studios that demand I have the same updated version of the apps as they do so we can exchange scene files etc., that is just not my market.