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#361

Someone recently emailed me back an animation asking me if I could change the name of the file for them.

Good gravy.:surprised

#362

Originally posted by erilaz
Someone recently emailed me back an animation asking me if I could change the name of the file for them.

gurgle… :drool: :cry: That’s too sad!

OK … client says… we will send you the video elements. I say OK so I need to rent a deck so I can digitize them. They say NO we will send you Quicktimes. ME: surprised at this level of knowledge about how to make quicktimes so I say “GREAT”! Two weeks later… I ask where the elements are and they say “oh we will FEDEX you the VHS tape today”. My client has on numerous occasions tried to tell me that VHS is good enough quality to digitize elements from for broadcast… ME slaps forehead… NO send me the BETA tape and I will rent a deck… arghhh!!!

#363

Originally posted by gmask
gurgle… :drool: :cry: That’s too sad!

Isn’t it? The funnier thing is my boss told me to charge the time. :smiley:

#364

Originally posted by erilaz
Isn’t it? The funnier thing is my boss told me to charge the time. :smiley:

LOL… Here’s your charge for file renaming… minimum charge of $100!

#365

this thread is so awsome AHAHAHAHAH im laughing good and hard at it

/fox

#366

So, I am essentially the entire IT department at a small business off-campus. I’m setting up a new server for them. They wanted an extra-safe machine to serve files / customer lists / access dbs etc. over the network with double redundancy for under $500. I designed + built it for 462 including raid and automated network and DVD-backup. The thing is ordered, built, up and running in 8 days. I, personally, am very impressed with myself. I decide to explain the user setup to the boss so he can check his email. I also explain all the safety features and how they can now access databases from any machine in the office.
He listens patiently while I explain everything and then says: “so, when you selct your user in the beginning… you know… when the screen is all blue. The fading name all jerky? Is it broken? I thought you said this was a good computer?” I think I just blinked a lot. He was very dissapointed in me.
Later that month, I was called in for an emergency error. Excel had apparently freaked out. I walk in and barely even saw the screen before I diagnosed the problem: the tab key was jammed. I move his binder off the edge of the keyoard. He proclaims me a computer genius and I get a raise. Sick world.

#367

A couple of techniques/ comments that my boss uses/says (head of 3d dept) :

  1. You can grab a frame from a PAL video, showing a forest for example, and use it on a grid to render it in HI RES as a background for a building, without losing any details at all.

  2. The shorter a 3d object is, the darker its shadow becomes on the ground.

#368

In senior2 (10th grade for my American friends), I was in a class called software development (intro to VB, webdeisgn, & intro to basics of digital media). Anyways, during the web dessign part, we were taught when to properly use Jpegs versus Gifs.

So my buddy has a basic logo he made and it’s saved as a jpeg. I told him it would be smaller and better looking if he converted it to Gif. Ten minutes later he says the gif isnt showing up. I can’t figure out why it’s broken/corrupted, so I call our instructor over.

He ask my buddy what he was doing. he said he was converting the files from jpegs to gif, as per my advice. My instructor then asked him to demostrate how he went about doing it. To both my instructor’s and my own amazement, buddy right clicks on the file, goes to rename, and manually changes the file extension from .jpeg to .gif!

When my instructor tried to explain to him that he cant convert files simply by renaming them, and that he had to use an image editing program to do it, buddy got all defensive. He said something like “iunno, Alan told me to change them from jpegs to gifs, and that’s what I did!” Then he went on blaming it on me and it’s my fault for assuming he understood the basics of file formats (which my instructor had taugh us, and continued to remind us about, for the past 3 months)

I guess that why file extensions are hidden by default in windows…

#369

A couple years ago a colleague heard I was using a Mac for 3d work:

“But the Mac chips just can’t handle polygons,” he said. “Besides, only SGI can do that type of stuff, right?” I turned in a forth or fifth job as he said it.

#370

Eheheheheh!

Well, since we guys here at Europe don’t have putters yet, all i’m about to tell is a lie :wink: (damn 240 volts power … )

Long long looooooong time ago i was workin with this guy that was makin an institutional movie, and the stuff i was doin was in a soft. called “Lumena” that worked on a Diaquest. Doesn’t matter. Basically, all i had to do was make these really huge lettering, like phrases for some parts of the video that would help pass thru the idea … like “Industrialization” or “Networking” or whatever. I was at one room, making the text, and it was put “on air” and directly show at the room next door on the broadcast monitor. Invariably, the guy would say “Cool, cool, but … can u just make it like a pixel to the left?” (notice: we are talkin bout text that fills up almost ALL of the lower half of the fullscreen). Invariably, i say “yeah no prob”, hit the refresh without moving it, and he goes “See? I told u! Much better now! It’s the details, my friend!” or something like that (hope it does not loose in the translation)

And, some days ago, we finished a TV add, where we had to do multi-passes with lots of 3d people flying in a 3d city, post-prod it, compose and finalize. All ok. Severall changes, till completion. Yuppy its done.

Now, they send us some frame shots of the add, asking for us to send them those images “but with better resolution, so we can use them for posters” … of course they didn’t understood when we said we would need to render all the passes at gigantic sizes, but then again, they didn’t believe that we needed to do multi passes in the first place, etc etc.

Well well, when we die we will not just drive Ferraris, we will OWN the Ferrari factory lol!

#371

Originally posted by heiyuu
To both my instructor’s and my own amazement, buddy right clicks on the file, goes to rename, and manually changes the file extension from .jpeg to .gif!

Yup I have had to explain this one before… those suffixes are magical!

#372

Sorry, it’s not CG related, but it’s a good one.
Basically, I write games and apps for interactive TV and the programming language is C only (so no object orientated development). Anyhows, I’m there looking at this new game which uses mpeg layer scrolling to achieve smooth, fast background scrolling effects.
So this one producer (I think she is) says “Ooh that’s good and fast. Is it because it’s object orientated?”
Second to that though, I worked on this screensaver prototype for the radio channels, and she came to look at it and asked pretty much the same question.
I tried to explain to her that object orientation doesn’t exist on this platform as such. I think she’s just got this one programming term in her head and thinks it’s the wasp’s nipples and that it makes programs execute faster.

Bless

#373

Originally posted by Jhavna
I think she’s just got this one programming term in her head and thinks it’s the wasp’s nipples and that it makes programs execute faster.

heh. I had the same situation a while ago with a design approach (the business component model) for object oriented design. This guy couldn’t even program but he insisted we would use it as much as possible, for every project :surprised

riiiiight, so we talked to him. Quite long actually…

#374

Sorry for another non CG but this happened today.
As you all know venus is crossing (or has crossed) the sun today.
There’s the image of it on the big plasma screen at the end of the office when one guy says

“Venus is the biggest star in our solar system”

Just as you see the tiny dot in front of the huge fsking sun.

I’m glad I’m leaving here REAL soon!

Also, a girl here was surprised that Venus had a different atmosphere than Earth.

Yes, DEFINATELY glad I am leaving!

#375

Originally posted by Jhavna
[B]Sorry for another non CG but this happened today.
As you all know venus is crossing (or has crossed) the sun today.
There’s the image of it on the big plasma screen at the end of the office when one guy says

“Venus is the biggest star in our solar system”

Just as you see the tiny dot in front of the huge fsking sun.

I’m glad I’m leaving here REAL soon!

Also, a girl here was surprised that Venus had a different atmosphere than Earth.

Yes, DEFINATELY glad I am leaving! [/B]

LOL:thumbsup:

#376

Yeah man, try to get a job that’s not on MARS next time :wink:

#377

Originally posted by Jhavna
[B]Sorry for another non CG but this happened today.
As you all know venus is crossing (or has crossed) the sun today.
There’s the image of it on the big plasma screen at the end of the office when one guy says

“Venus is the biggest star in our solar system”

Just as you see the tiny dot in front of the huge fsking sun.

I’m glad I’m leaving here REAL soon!

Also, a girl here was surprised that Venus had a different atmosphere than Earth.

Yes, DEFINATELY glad I am leaving! [/B]

Grade 3 Science anyone?

I still remember (in grade 3) having to draw the entire solar system over two pages in my scribbler (not to scale, just had to have ourbeloved star, and all 9 planets. Yes, it was 9 back then).

I started to draw the sun at the end of one page, planning to work my way across to the opposite end of the other page. My teacher insisted the sun HAS to be in the center of the two pages. I’m like, ok w/e. A few minutes later, my classmates and I run out of room. A few solutions we came up with were to either, redo the diagram, only smaller, or attached another piece of paper and continue our picture on it. We made a big mistake of presenting the ideas to the teacher, thinking she would know which one is better. She goes in a completely different direction, and tells us to just draw the remaining planets on the other side of the sun.

I was all “but ma’am! that means Jupiter will cross pass with Mercury, and the same with Saturn and Venus! This diagram wouldn’t make any sense!”

She couldn’t grasp the idea, and I ended up creating a diagram with Mercury, Venus, Earth (complete with moon!) and Mars on the right side of the sun, and Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto on the left side. Each group of planets were the same distances from the sun. I got full marks!

OMG I can’t believe I remember this. It’s been over a decade!

#378

Originally posted by Jhavna
Also, a girl here was surprised that Venus had a different atmosphere than Earth.

I was doing this project way back with larger than life fruit and there was one point where the moon comes up ro down I can;t remember which and the client was annoyed that I didn’t give the proper arcing motion for the moon on the first try. I was sort of thinking I’m sure the larger than life peice fo fruit wouldn’t distract anyone from the moon moving about 1000x faster than normal. I tried to argue (actaully I was trying to be funny but he didn’t get it) that we where at a POV on earth where the moon would appear to move vertically into the sky … I dunno if that is possible but he didn’t buy it anyway. For the rest of the session my assistant flirted with him and succesfully distracted him.

I never did like working with a client back seat driving. It’s the main reason why I decided to NOT be a Flame operator. I have seen alot of edit and Flame suites that literally have a barrier between the client sofa and the operator so that the client can’t easily walk over and be right on top of you while you are trying to work.

#379

Originally posted by gmask
[B]

I never did like working with a client back seat driving. It’s the main reason why I decided to NOT be a Flame operator. I have seen alot of edit and Flame suites that literally have a barrier between the client sofa and the operator so that the client can’t easily walk over and be right on top of you while you are trying to work. [/B]

me too mask.But our flame room is spacious enough not to feel that way.Nice idea abt the barrier though :scream: .

b

#380

Originally posted by boomji
[B]me too mask.But our flame room is spacious enough not to feel that way.Nice idea abt the barrier though :scream: .

b [/B]

LOL, The barrier is for clients who no matter how far away you put the couch and the client monitor their idea of hands on is to come and get their greasy fingers all over your monitor :cry: