Comical Client Comments

#2

LOL - would be SO funny if it wasn’t SO true! :smiley:

#3

LMAO!!! :applause:

#4

Nice!! & yet somehow depressing… :smiley: :beer:

#5

i have tears in my eyes! :slight_smile:

–
eu

#6

I once rotated the color wheel ONE degree and then back to
zero again to have a client exclaim exhuberantly, “THAT’S IT!!!”

Having been involved in theatre lighting, this was affectionately known as a DFA cue (Do F*** All)

#7

nice one Geoff =)

#8

Director wanting to composite a real human into a small model of a car: “We put a green figurine in the driver’s seat for you.”

haha, d’oh! who needs pre-production meetings anyway :smiley:

#9

Once I showed a wireframe logo animation preview to a client for
testing the speed of motion.

He said: “That s a good idea but we want a little bit more photorealistic look!”

#10

It’s too funny…yet WAY too common!

…GO CANUCKS!:buttrock:

#11

Here in Hungary these were my favourites:

client: Can you make this purple background a little yellowish?
me: That colour is called brown…

client: That thing should be christmas red…

client: This thing is elephant grey, i want it mouse grey…

Clients are the same all around the globe…

#12

While editing a locked camera shot.
client: “Can you just tilt down so that we can see the rest of the shot”
me: “But there is no shot below this point… you shot it cropped from here!”
client: Yes I know, but can’t you tilt down so I can see the rest of the shot.
me: “What shot? It was shot like this, there is black below this.”
me: (I pull the image up showing the black border.) “See what I mean!”
client: “ok can’t you recreate the bottom… I thought this machine can do
everything!”
me: “Well I could recreate the bottom but it will take some time.”
client: “Isn’t there a button that automatically does it for you”

Heh. It’s sad that so many people actually think computers can do that. :stuck_out_tongue:

#13

hahah! great thread!

i remember when i did some broadcast animations and my client asked to change colors and the motion of a few objects. i did completly nothing, just sent them exactly the same beta tape next day. and i had a call “hey! it looks awesome! just like we wanted!”

:wink:

#14

ahahahahhahahahahahahha…thease are just too funny. :scream:

b

#15

Haha, nice old funny missed thread.
It seems the stupidity is universtal :shrug:

#16

while i was reading your post i felt like i was there ahhhahaha…
arent they are all the same?..
:applause: :wip:

#17

I once rotated the color wheel ONE degree and then back to
zero again to have a client exclaim exhuberantly, “THAT’S IT!!!”

Having been involved in theatre lighting, this was affectionately known as a DFA cue (Do F*** All)
We call it an HTC filter…HTC for “Humor The Client”. It goes something like this:

Client: “Well, it looks pretty good, but it needs something. I’m not really sure what…”
Me: “Well, let me try running an HTC filter and we’ll see if that helps”…hide the video, press some buttons (any buttons) and unhide said video.
Client: “Perfect!!”

Works like a charm…:rolleyes:

#18

Ever had a potential client list all the wonderful, challenging, innovative and demanding things they’d like done by you and your team. Then towards the end start explaining how by doing this for nothing we’ll be significantly furthering our career/company and exposing ourselves to great oppurtunities, that the client and his company are doing us a great favour allowing us this oppurtunity to work for nothing???

This is a weekly occurance here, to which I’ve mastered a very slow, deep voiced response, combined with a look of near complete disdain, that ends with a total silence and locked eyes
“we don’t need any practice…”

results are interesting, far more interesting than working for nothing, interestingly all of them have the capacity to pay, they just enjoy negotiating. I don’t, I like to set a price. This is the best method I’ve found to square them up and put away any thoughts they may have about “helping” me.

#19

One of my faves,

"Also J### has seen the logo and has a few points he’d like changed…

One: Can the writing be more silver.
Two: Can the letters be closer together.
Three: Can the words be closer together? i.e. can we close the height distance between the words, or just make the words bigger.
Four: Can the words fill the entire frame.
Five: Can the bullets on either side of ‘television’ be bigger and more obvious.
Six: Can the whole presentation be widescreen. i.e. can we make it all 16x9.

Hope this is okay. Other than that he thinks it looks wonderful!"

I think the background was okay
regards

paul

#20

Reading this made me sick to my stomach.
Can’t we create an industry that works as a middle man - some cool tech guy liason that meets us in the shop to work with us instead of the 45 year old business idiot.

#21

Man, talk about an undesirable job. Who would honestly want to have a career translating between geekspeak and moronese?