Send photos of the existing space from several angles, rough dimensions or a site plan, the feature list you are proposing, any material selections already made, and whatever the client has said about style. Send all of it at once. Incomplete intake is the reason most renderings come back wrong or late, and it is almost always fixable on the contractor's end before the job ever starts.

A standard 3D landscape or pool rendering package takes five to seven business days from the time the studio has everything it needs. Rush turnaround is typically three to four business days. The part most contractors do not expect is that the timeline usually depends more on how fast they send information than on how fast the studio works.

A 3D rendering and a 2D construction plan do two different jobs. The rendering sells the project to the client. The plan is what your crew builds from. Most rendering services provide one and not the other, which means the contractor ends up translating a photorealistic image into an actual installation on their own. That translation is where change orders come from.