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Wow! Thats a lovely piece of digital artwork. However I don't understand his motivation to spend that kind of time building it. He says it took 2000 hours. Thats 50 man weeks at 40 hours a week. Even at $200 a week he has to recoup $10,000 to pay for his time. Unless he has a great reputation for this he will be lucky to sell 50 prints at $100 each.
Meanwhile a good photographer could go out there on a Sunday morning and duplicate the image in a couple of hours. Even if he has to photoshop out people, litter and fix flaws he would have less than 20 hours into it. He could have a knockoff of it ready to sell in less than a week.
Why would someone put so much effort into one scene unless you are on the clock for building a digital movie?
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Take a look at the rest of his website... fabulous stuff all of it and it sells for up to $3,000 PER PRINT.
I would think this guy has earned a top knotch reputation for his work and I'll bet he makes a good living too.
Personally I would have a tough time spending more than a few hours on a digital piece... but to someone who has the passion for this type of thing it is probably no big deal.
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I just looked at the page about Bert Monroy on his website. He has a stellar reputation in the field of digital graphics. He has co-authored several books about Illustrator and photo shop as well as lecturered and done appearances on a TV show on the subject. Has lots of commercial clients and the ones mentioned read like a whos who of the technical graphics world.
Obviously he has done this project to show it can be done and to futher enhance his reputation as a digital illustrator. He should be able to up his fees to the commercial clients after putting that image together!
-------------------- Chuck Churchill, It's A Good Sign Inc. 3245 Harvester Rd, U-12 Burlington, Ont. Phone: 905-681-8775 Fax: 905-681-8945 Posts: 633 | From: Burlington, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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The Oakland Fox theatre picture he created is incredible too- he did a 3-part turorial on how he created the sandstone blocks, neon signs etc and put it together- written up a year or more ago in some Photoshop User magazines.
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