Outsourcing costs [Cars]
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Hello, we don't have much experience when it comes to this, but, how much would it cost to outsource car models [on average], if we have an contract for at least a few cars at a quality like this:
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In all seriousness its about how much your willing to pay or how much an artist is willing to do it for. You get what you pay for , simple as that there is no magical number
Freelancer Type US Day Rate US Hourly Overseas Day Rate Overseas Hourly
Individual contractor $300/day * $37.50/hr * $250 - 375/day $31.25 - 47/hr
Low-end art studio $350/day $43.75/hr $140 - 180/day $17.50 - 22.50/hr
Average art studio $500/day $62.50/hr $200/day $25/hr
High-end art studio $800/day ** $100/hr ** $300/day $37.50/hr
I'd say you could still find a decent artist for about 200$ a day
Does the interior need to be built? To what level of fidelity?
Do any doors/trunks etc need to open?
Does the model need to be rigged in any way?
If you just want the exterior that is shown in your image, 3-5k is more or less in the right ballpark, as radiancefOrge mentions.
that said, costs are pretty simple, even with Lods and textures, it's always the same
time * money = cost
money is very individual if you live somewhere cheap your needed money is much lower than when you work in L.A.
it's not like it will increse by 1000 dollar if you do this, because if I do this, it might be cheaper or more expensive, depending on how fast i am, my experience, my living condition and so on in comparison to you.
Basic PBR textures, well again; this is ideally a mostly shader based or material preset system dependent on your engine, so I don't know how possible it would be for outsourcing to do unless they have full access to the editor and all.
LODs shouldn't be that much work, anybody that can model cars to that level should have decent polyflow and workflow to not lose much time on LODs. About a day or so of extra work, at most.
Well, i will make it more clear. We want the exteriors of the cars and wheels[windows will be black or filmed with really basic geometry inside]. Car bottom could be black. We would also bring low-quality models of the exteriors as well as concept art for the car, since we are not planning on using licensed cars at the moment. Since cars will be internally designed, there is a good chance that it will be less detailed then real cars. At our calculations, cars like this would take us around 10 work days if done internally.
That's exactly my thoughts as well.
You don't want to know how much Forza spends on each car model, just to get them in house where we do final polish and setup.
I can't post exact numbers, but it's a LOT more than 9k.
a polycount would be most helpfull to calculate your cost.
if you are talking non licensed low quality fantasy cars you might get away with less then 10k