Finding freelance clients
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http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Freelance#Finding_Clients
I just wrote this for a student friend of mine, and added it to the wiki.
How do you find clients?
I just wrote this for a student friend of mine, and added it to the wiki.
How do you find clients?
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I've never worked freelance, but I've had a half dozen offers based on people seeing my work in the Unity Asset store. Mostly mobile stuff, but one offer was for a PC indie survival rpg.
Almost every freelance job I've done has been as a result of the unity forums for some reason, even though I have no work in my portfolio representing unity work.
I always make sure to do a video skype call with everyone I work with before starting to become more familiar with them as human beings. This seems to go well as it makes it a much more familiar relationship than just text/emails.
Having a bigass header on my portfolio resume saying "AVAILABLE FOR FREELANCE AND CONSULTING" has helped a ton as well.
thanks a lot for some of those links, didn't know about them.
Thanks I know many will benefit from this.
The clients I have are people I know who like what I make which doesn't help much I know. Bookmarked this thread because there are already some good tips.
this really depends on the area where you're working from, and on investor interest in what you do at the moment.
in my experience, personal referrals make the best freelance connections anywhere, so you can technically ask for money over first meeting and just cubicle yourself later, but - it depends.
I think it's a good thread, considering funding in my area has been turbulent, so to say, in the past months, and a lot of people might have ended up in similar shit, losing jobs and/or temporary contracts.
competitors is a very vague term, typically, it drives down to a combination of skill, personality, and other extra assets (extra languages, or, idk, past business relationship history.)
all adds up a little bit, portfolio + personality are the biggest deciding factors, funding is up to management who's commissioning artists.
in my experience, gamedev is good, but not the best paying kind of employment overall.
I don't know how applicable this is for 3d since I figure people are more likely to scour pinterest during pre-production just to get ideas/inspiration, but figure it's worth mentioning.
Also if my email wasn't on the picture they never would have found me. Once your shit gets reposted to pinterest it's an uphill battle to find the original source through google image search, so yeah... always put your email on your pictures.
Dang, why didn't I think of that. The two consistent questions I get asked are "can you do PBR?" and "are you familiar with Unity?".
Some people understand that you get what you pay for. If someone doesn't value my time at the same rate that I value my own, then I don't work with them. But yes, I have been able to make good, steady-ish money. Luckily I'm currently in a position where I can afford to turn work down though.