David:
Thanks for the info!!! I've used 3DS for three presentations within two
months, all single-family house remodeling jobs. The clients loved it! They
understood the project much better and we did a much better job at
communicating our design intentions. Due to time and $$ constraints we did
only still images, some of them rendered during the actual presentation when
the client requested a particular view. One of the clients brought his kids
with him, and I ended up teaching them a little 3DS thru a 30 frame "shark
chasing a sub" FLI anim!
I plan to start offering a photorealistic image service to Architects in PR
within a month and possibly animations within (hopefully) three months. I am
also helping a group of students in the Univ of PR Arch School develop their
presentations in 3DS. The first presentation one of them did was an urban
design problem and he presented his design proposal through a series of simple
volumetric studies rendered in 3DS and photographed from the monitor. Needless
to say, the faculty loved his presentation while his fellow students hated his
guts. Hopefully, that will motivate them to learn 3DS too.
Rafael Marrero
San Juan, PR