In my experience, typical man-day rates in India from low-mid-high quality are generally $135 - $175 - $195. China's about the same, except their low-end can go as low as $90 and their high-end averages out around $225. For US individual contractors I generally see $250 - 450\day, but the cream of the crop are usually $500…
Awsome design! Out of curiosity, what did you use as reference for those details? As for presentation, you could take just the part of the room you have now and make a diorama like this: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1871590 Or just find a nice angle so that the focus is on the fireplace. You'd probably…
You made a nice sculpt for the bricks,though you could have added some cracks and indentations to break the uniformity. But something about the texture isn't quite right. Try overlaying the detail of the concrete on your normal maps. Also overlay some decals on your walls to make the textures seem a bit less uniform. The…
I just clicked on the link and didn't read the rest of the posts. But the first thing that jumped out was the lighting. Look at well lit tv shows too like 24, CSI, movies too. Don't avoid saturation like you are doing now. Take a screenshot in Photoshop and check your levels. Notice the flat line area on the right side of…
I won't be able to do more testing on the lighting, because of an import, reimport issue that ran into working with the latest update of 4.16.2. I thought of leaving a link here if someone else is experiencing the same issue:…
Here is the updated version in my project check it out in the video below. Once I finished the project, I'll share this for free. Watch it from 3:10 . https://youtu.be/GjkCOBWZC1A?t=189