I can’t tell you the countless emails I get about outsourcing architectural illustration. Outsourcing to China, to India, etc.  The terms high quality and low price are always mentioned. But you know what? That doesn’t even interest me and here is why:

For the past 8 years, people have been outsourcing their 3d renderings to other countries. I even had a colleague that had the idea of starting up an architecture firm entirely based on consulting for other architects and then sending it to the Ukraine or something like that.  But that idea went south quickly. The first reason is because of the language barrier, neither party spoke the same language so explaining the scope of work was impossible. The second reason was time zones. When we were asleep, they were working and vice versa. Communicating one email often took 12 hours and so the job always took longer and, as you know, in architecture, everything is rush.

I just received and email from a guy asking me if I needed consulting on my architectural illustration. He said he subs out to India so his prices are cheap. So what does he do?? Make a buck off of me? Of course I couldn’t help but reply, I don’t support outsourcing at a time of economic crisis.

I think greed is the main reason that this economy is where it is. So to fix it, shouldn’t we concentrate on using who we have in the United States and not outsource? I have given a break to my clients because its rough out there.  But buying a 3d rendering from another country because its ‘cheaper’ and then putting another American our of a job is not the way to stimulate the economy.

I know that there are people out there that read my blog from other countries and I am not trying to offend, I just want to make it out of this messy economy and still be able to do my 3d rendering as a career.

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