Architectural Renderings and Artwork-Related Information from Lunarstudio.

I receive resumes on a daily basis. Hav­ing looked at every sin­gle one for the past few years (even for just a brief moment), there are things I know now as to what “not to do” when approach­ing a prospec­tive employer. I also receive inquiries and phone calls ask­ing for advice as to break­ing into a graphic-related field. While there isn’t a patent answer, there are some things a per­son search­ing for design jobs and work can do to help increase their chances of obtain­ing a job in a design-related field.

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I was men­tioned in the Wall Street Jour­nal two days ago regard­ing my attempts with my com­pany LunarStu­dio to pur­sue pay­ment from another com­pany that refused to pay a cou­ple of months ago. If you have a moment, please take a look the arti­cle as it applies to small com­pa­nies, con­trac­tors, and freelancers:

Arti­cle on free­lancers look­ing for pay­ment on the Wall Street Journal.

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I’ve been asked on numer­ous occa­sions if I would be able to pro­vide some­one with an exam­ple con­tract that I use prior to com­menc­ing on a project. As much as I would like to help oth­ers out, I con­sider my con­tracts part of LunarStudio’s intel­lec­tual prop­erty — these are pieces which I’ve worked on and just like all of my work, I do not sim­ply hand these items out for free. I’ve spent years work­ing on them. While most of my con­tracts are cookie-cutter/boilerplate, my con­tracts are con­tin­u­ously get­ting revised on a per-project basis. How­ever, with­out pro­vid­ing you with the exact word­ing, I’ll out­line many of the items which my con­tracts do cover. My con­tracts with some proper reword­ing can cover other avenues of free­lanc­ing and busi­ness — it is not sim­ply lim­ited to my field of art.

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There’s a say­ing between 3D vet­er­ans which says, “there’s no make pretty pic­ture but­ton.” If there was, a lot of us would be out of work and busi­ness. Many peo­ple tend to have dif­fer­ent opin­ions as to what “art” actu­ally is. Many years ago, my impres­sion of 3D work was very sim­i­lar to an aver­age person’s gen­eral under­stand­ing of the 3D field — that is to say, not very under­stand­ing at all. As I became more involved in the field, my opin­ion even­tu­ally changed.

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I decided late last week to revise a web­site that I had lying around for some time and more or less fin­ished it today. Years ago, I had cre­ated LunarLog to be the LunarStu­dio blog. Instead of blog­ging on-topic, I found myself over time writ­ing mis­cel­la­neous pieces and posts. I decided that I needed a new blog, Mighty­Funk to han­dle some of my more off-color top­ics. But with main archi­tec­tural ren­der­ing busi­ness run­ning the show, I didn’t have much time to jump from work to blog to blog. Mighty­Funk was mostly just stand­ing still with­out any new con­tent. Keep­ing in touch with my friends via Face­book in some ways put the prover­bial “final nail in the coffin.”

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