Back in February I tried to land a local freelance gig that would have been ongoing. I spent over sixty hours on this without getting paid anything. I couldn't come any closer to what this guy's client wanted -- to reproduce a previous freelance 3D artists work. I was working on something that had already been done.
The image on top is what I was given to match (along with the CAD file used to model it, an the sample images for texturing.) The only thing I can figure is buddy had changed the colours of the textures, because I couldn't even reproduce his renders using his textures, model, lighting, and render settings! The architect was a nice guy, I liked him and wanted to help him out. But this was ridiculous. Getting revisions of "it just doesn't feel the same" second hand. I suppose it comes with working freelance.
I didn't sign an NDA, so I hope nobody takes offence to my posting this.