FAQ: Frequently Alluded to Quandaries

UNTHINKIT is quite pleased to be able to provide quality contract work to some of the country's best marketing firms, ad agencies, Public Relations Firms, and Web Development groups. As a result of these relationships, many clients of ours have recurrent questions. Here is my attempt to document a few responses:

ON OUR RATES AND TERMS:

Everything is negotiable by contract. I tend to avoid hourly because I have simply seen so much dishonesty with subs as far as reporting more hours than actually expended, or even not enough for harder deals or picky clients. What I do is usually start off with a new firm with a small easily executed project. I warranty that all of my project quotes carry a guarantee not-to-exceed. Each of my agency clients are different and have different expectations for their portfolio. For each regular client I develop a tailored menu of services that covers a good breadth of basic projects pursuant to their identifiable needs.

ON STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS:

We also do a lot of quid pro quo. For example I am opening up a JV with a media/video/interactive company that has full sound/video production capability and does interactive 360 tours, online streaming video presentations, etc. I do all of his basic SEO and web design work and he does all of my video work. In this way we have a reflexive relationship that is self-complimentary. My Client is able to sell projects that he normally would walk away from like print, billboard, e-commerce, etc…


BUSINESS WE DON'T TOUCH WITH A TEN FOOT POLE:
Hosting, Actual Printing (we do offer liaison services though), ISP, Re-selling Content Management Systems/Web Portals, Gambling/Porn/Hate websites, Domain Reselling, DNS management, Proprietary Mail Server Installations.

NEW BUSINESS WE ARE JAZZED ABOUT:
3d modeling, Rendering , After Effects, Animation, Character Modeling, Architectural Rendering/Modeling, Product Animations, Video, executive presentations, interactive cd-rom, branding, footwear and footwear component design, toy design, catalog management for e-commerce. Photo asset editing and management (en masse or piece-meal)

MIDNIGHT OIL:
We are also a great resource for meeting tight deadlines as we often pull all-nighters to help clients both make their delivery windows and allow them to work the rest of their pipeline so they don’t get log-jammed. We get a LOT of 11th hour assignments!

So if you are sitting there freaking out at 11:00 p.m. about a next-day deadline and think that the only ones awake to help you are over in China, give us a shout! Call or e-mail the unthinkers today: http://www.unthinkit.com/contactus.htm

Unthinkit.com : 3D rendering, 3d Modeling, Concept Art, Extrusion Architectural Rendering, Prototype Design

Unthinkit.com provides 3d architectural rendering and modeling services to architectural and interior design firms. We offer photo-realistic fully extruded, shaded, lighted, and rendered designs from your CAD files and elevations.

We can include people, cars, trees, landscape architecture and more. Unthinkit.com can animate as well: picture a sunrise/sunset effect over various views, day to night elapsed photography with outdoor lighting effects in parking areas...

Flythrough animations, walkthrough animations, 360 virtual tours in fully digitally rendered buildings...all before they even exist! Interior decorators can model and show variable palettes and design motifs in the same space with digital rendering. We can texturize any fabric, any pattern, and any material for photo realism inclulding metals, plastics, water, wood, fabrics, glass, and more.

UNTHINKIT can help collaborate with your design team as well to help you innovate. Our prototype division is highly skilled at industrial design, taking sketch art and making working real prototypes from 3d models. We have a sophisticated process that allows us to design a product from scratch and have a prototype milled, casted, or molded in 2 weeks to 30 days depending on the project.

We offer product design, prototype development, digital packaging models,and more. We are skilled in the following applications: Maya, Poser, 3dMAX, Lightwave, ZBrush, Solidworks, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD, AutoCAD, and many more.

We also offer flash, gif and movie reel animation sequences.

If you are building a product or marketing a brand, UNTHINKIT can fully design your concept right from the brand name, trademark, and logo all the way through packaging, samples, and production assistance. We are a turnkey solution.

If you need a real 3d architectural model built, we can have our 3d models built into physical models. If you need a prototype built on a new design, we can handle it. If you need patterns rendered on a known solid or other core, we can do it. All of these things that we do accomplish time savings, capital investment savings, saved opportunity cost, lower materials waste, higher sales closing ratios, and faster time to market/production.

We have an additional specialty in medical rendering from CAT scans and MRI data. We can animate and detail in full color and 4D (realtime) cross-sectional or focused approaches to detail surgical procedures, pathology. We can also execute videos to provide informed patient consent disclosures prior to specific or unique surgical procedures.

UNTHINKIT has a very strong Footwear and Footwear Component Design portfolio as well. We specialize in line building, sampling, last designing, component and sole design, patterning, and more. We can guide the entire process from sketch art to fit trial and market launch/trade show exhibition. Past clients include Harley-Davidson, Ingersoll-Rand, Puma, and several Southeastern US Architectural Firms.

UNTHINKIT.COM also offers full-scale branding and market penetration collateral so that you can broadcast your message across multiple media channels. Print, Web, Large Format, Commercials, Streaming Video, Audio Files, Webmail, Direct Mail, Signage, Trade Show fixtures and Kiosks, boxing and packaging, Point-of-purchase, and more.

Everything your business needs to bouth create and sell your product from birth to its fully developed life cycle. Contact a representative today at sales@unthinkit.com -- for portfolio samples and a risk-free estimate of your next design job.

Most of our work is proprietary and is not published for public viewing but is only available upon request. We look forward to working with you.

Unthink your approach to design and become an unthinker today!

--JLA