Building Firms?

First of all, no. This is not about making the next great plywood woody. Anywho, onto the question!

Are there any building firms/businesses that hire a number of people beyond ESC?

I notice plenty of prefab sales places... but I really haven't been able to find much in the way of custom building teams. ESC is a huge company really (Especially for what it does..that's outrageous ;]) and I've seen plenty of their work..they're the best known, obviously, so they get the deals from various out-of-world companies.

But beyond them, I've seen..lesse..GBD. And that seems to be it in the way of custom building, everything else I can find with any sort of ease is prefabs and such.

So..there's my question. Are there any actual building teams in SL aside from ESC, that occasionally have new people?

(I'm not asking for a job. I'm not looking for a job at the moment. I'm really curious.. I can't find any.)

Yes: there are a number of ones at the ESC/RiversRunRed/MillionsOfUs level, and many more smaller ones. I currently work regularly for one of the latter, and am in talks with two others.

Mari

MillionsofUs I heard of recently, but looking at their site it seems they're really only in SL as an afterthought kinda thing. (Maybe it was just me though).

And never heard of RiversRunRed o.o

ETA: Found the RiversRunRed site...they gots some cool stuff done o.o
ETA2: After another look at the Millions of Us site,...ok it's not an afterthought..

This can help ya, I think: http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/04/metaverse-busin.html#more

Awesome, thank you!

Yer welcome! Dat should give ya some idea of some dat's out there.

Look on this site :

http://secondlife.com/solution_providers/listings.php?category=FullService

for a directory of the bigger companies available for hire in SL. There are hundreds of companies in that list. The firms range from big corporate entities like ESC and Ansche Chumg Studios, to small 2 to 6 person firms like my own "Fox and Ground Construction Company". And that is just a partial list, consisting of those who have bothered to register as content developers with Linden Lab.

Hello - you can try us (we hire inworld but it's RL contract) Scarlet Creative....

We are looking for graphic designers, writers, and other artists so drop me an IM inworld. Thanks

(We are owned by a RL Brand Agency)

Thanks.

Well i am actually trying to put together a group of architects, to be able to take on the larger projects and also work on some large scale non commercial experimental projects. However finding builders that enjoy a similar style to me (minimal, modern, retro) is proving difficult.

It should be stressed the difference between what is essentially an architects practice and a full virtual solutions company like electric sheep, rivers run red etc.

Love t'talk to ya about it. I don't often get enough chances to do retro projects.

Marianne has mentioned the big players. I work for a major advertising/creative agency and we have a team that has done SL projects, and as far as I am aware most of our big competitors have also project managed builds.

We tend to handle the client liason, hiring of in-world talent, concept design etc. The real work tends to be done by a handful of scripters, builders, landscapers that we regularly work with.

I sometimes hire new people. My company does a lot of work for businesses, educational institutions, non-profits, and government agencies.