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The implications of this are enormous for the 3D industry at large. It means two things, deadlines and margins will become tighter but the volume of work out there is likely to explode in a world dominated by 24 hour news from an almost infinite amount of sources.

I knew renders were going to take a while as we were pushing V-ray to the limit with some of the things we were asking it to do. After struggling for the best part of the week we realised that our own renderfarm wasn’t up to the job of getting the project done in time. Now we could have toned down the settings or tried to hold out hope that we could just about make it but we decided to take a hit in terms of the profitability of the job and outsource the rendering to Dann Stubbs over at RenderKing.com, a small but very dedicated Cinema 4D renderfarm in the states. I am just waiting on the last few renders as I write this.

However the reality is that whatever legal protections are in place, some buyers will not take the chance on a supplier who is unknown or does not have a track record. To get the high end work, companies operating in these countries will need to build up credit in the market. When there is a lot at stake, professional buyers will not take the chance. Suppliers on the international marketplace will have to earn reputations as suppliers of excellent quality and integrity, who always deliver when they say they will.

Outsourcing is becoming an established norm worlwide and all the indicators are it’s here to stay. Mainly due to cheaper technology, educated mobile workforces and high bandwidth urban connections the trend for outsourcing work has exploded in the last ten years and the growth shows no sign of abating any time soon. The trends in [...]