Graphics Designer and Freelance Artist lends hand to Freelance IT Lansing

  Just so people can understand and since I do not have a lot of time on a Friday night to explain why there are graphics and a graphics site mixed in with Freelance IT Lansing posts and with the website is also a link to Kenton Sweckard's Graphic Design Portfolio. Seeing that often with website development and design there is also logo design, application user interface graphics (UI's)  then you want a new custom downloading.gif for a website, this leads to new icons or graphic and animation based tutorials, videos that need processional intros , embedding your logos in your videos  , having and animated avatar made for a website guide etc etc ... So when it comes to design / development goes hand in hand. With the adobe creative cloud you can import and export from one application to the next when creating media and graphic content for a website or application...  So here are a few concept images and would be examples of character concept cards

 

For example looking at these two images and the monster does not do himself justice, though sure he is pretty scary looking. In this manner it just does not look really scary, and also looks sort of just plain out of place. Now sure this is in concept stage even though he has been retopologized. As a freelance Graphic designer if you overlook the simple little things then you will be overlooked by the companies for example involved in video game character graphic design will fail to see the value in hiring you because you did not go that extra mile in your work.

       So that being told take a look at the two Pterodactyls above and they look a lot better then just the plain grey back ground from zbrush. Again these are more concept cards for example of a 3d print out or a character concept card to introduce the producers to your characters or the game development to the concept ideas of the video games players or a virtual tour guide ,,, in a website animation with a parallax scrolling effect to mimic and alternate land or virtual universe. See the parallax effects are a very interesting subject when it comes to graphics but that is another blog post and day.

So here in the image we add some shapes, some textures and patterns as well cut the 3d render out and paste it into the concept character card, which looks 10 times better then the plain flat image of the tri head dinosaur at the top of this web page. Just the extra few minutes in photoshop and now at the least the other staff members will have to look at the gaudy candy colored card that is setting at the meeting table appearing more like a 12 year old girls birthday cake then a flat lifeless still shot, of yet another dinosaur from 10 angles.Yes the Pteradactyl blends into the image in some of the renders but it still appears better than good old 3 heads above.

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10 Reasons to Never Expect Free Design or Development Work

  I can honestly come up with about 50 reasons that you should never expect a developer or designer should work without pay. But honestly I have heard about all of it from hey it is exposure and I am like advertising for you, to the good old it only will take a few minutes of your time. Now if you have paid me before and I did the work and it really is that easy then I may help, but do not expect this at any point as I have to eat and live as well. Also you may be interrupting a paid customers work, you could be interrupting my family time etc....  But even during work hours I get very annoyed when someone wants work done for the good old excuses of it will only take a minute. That may be so but I only have so many minutes a day and remember as a developer and designer I have to do all of my work for myself. I am pretty sure you charge your boss for the hours you work, as I rarely in all my years, have found someone that shorts the bosses time card rather then pad it. So here goes the ten reasons from off the top of my head...  These are true for all graphic design, web developers, web designers, coders, scripters, freelance graphic designers, freelance artists, animators, application developers, photoshoppers, adobe pros, Java Professionals, PHP developers and every other tech related field of study ...

Top 10 Reasons to Never Expect 

Free Design and Development Work

1. Because you do not work free either. So why should anyone else? 
2. Because learning all these programs and languages took years and someone had to pay for it.
3. Because this internet connection is not free, nor is my phone.
4. Because when I do not have a client I need to be working on finding more.
5. Because ads and exposure cost designers and developers money.
6. Because my computers, and workstations I use cost almost as much as your car !
7.  Because the software I use cost more then your car!
8. Because keeping abreast of the newest tech and apps as well updates takes all my free time!
9. Because I cannot eat your comments or live in your praise!
10. Because to do my best work I need that financial motivation, you wanting freebies kills it!

    Bonus answers here !


 I use programs and apps as well cutting edge technology that in order to get the best of work costs money. Artists, Designers and Developers need to be respected and as well you pay for what you get. Often people will play the game of I could have done it myself, yet they are asking me to do it for them and when I am finished they cannot even implement the technology correctly. Two hours of searching Google for the answer to a question or idea is time we could have spent enjoying life and yet people play this all the time being cheap or not having the money to make money. Sure we reuse code, scripts, images, models and many other parts of previous jobs yet they may be saved in the cloud and again you come back to overhead which is not cheap. People often tell us I will give you a good review, but so will the paying customers. Often after people get what they want the reviews are never given and it turns into a big waste of time for the developer / designer. Sure someone in a 3rd world country may do it cheaper, no offense to them but at this point in time why are they not concentrating on work in there own country ? So seeing that many countries are having economic problems as well maybe you should be buying American where you have more protection over the job getting done rather then outsourcing and then wanting and American or UK Citizen to finish the work that the others did not.