To him, “computer freak” might have seemed like a more dignified term.
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harry-D
#682
I was buzy with a model for a tutorial I want to give the students. I was in the work area struggling to get the most out of the least pokygons and someone came up (an adult) and checked out what was on the laptop and said: ‘That looks great! Isn’t the software these days marvelous?’ I shot a kind of wierd look and the speaker looked worried and said: ‘Well its the software doing it right?’
Crikey. kind of insulting isn’t it?
It’s like saying that a tool box can fix a car all by itself!!
“Aren’t the toolboxes these days marvelous!?”
ThommyBoy
#685
[left]I sent a link to the “Producer” for a 3D model purchase of Big Ben and Parliment today and here is the reply:
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3D Model Purchase Recommendations as follows:
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[font=Arial]Big Ben and House of Parliament: $129.oo[/font]
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Kanga
#686
Ha ha just saw it.
Smallest intuo tablet went for 80 euros here a couple of years ago. Just got a bigger A5 one for closer to 200 euros.
Nothing fell off a truck.
If it fell off a truck it would be damaged right ? :eek:
OMFG
w1as
#689
Long time ago,
My gradfather (R.I.P) asked me “What do you want to be?”
I said “I want to be a graphic designer”
Then he replied “…a ga…deeh…err…eh what!?..Now don’t you get smart with me kid!”
Me “No I’m serious; I want to be an artist!”
Him “oh… a drawer…um…Don’t you want to be a cop…you know; shoot bad guys and stuff!..or a doctor; you can be a beauty surgeon and draw all you want on people’s faces!”
Five years later years later,
Me and my father were watching Disney’s “Dinosaur” movie,
My father told me “Can you do that stuff?”
Me “um…What stuff?”
Him “Of course not! That type of technology is TOP SECRET!!! it’s like nuclear weapons…ONLY THE AMERICANS AND JAPANEZZZE know this type of information!”
Me “What are you talking about!!!???”
Him “You’ll never understand me; maybe you’ll do when you grow up!”
Me “eh…”
Him “I said go to your room!!!”
A while after that,
One of my crew members can’t be quite without criticizing anything, he told me he wanted a logo for his little game project; I knew what he’d say like always, so…
I started looking for a picture of a black hole, I found a real one in the “”“NASA”"" website, I opened the picture with photoshop and wrote under it “BLACK HOLE”, then I came to him the other day and asked him “What do you think of this logo?” and he said “I think the black hole doesn’t look realistic AT ALL!”
A bit sooner,
I was talking with my brother about “Blender”, my mother suddenly came in and said “Oh my god! what are you thinking about now! first you wanted to be an art teacher and you want to work in a bar!!!”
Me “
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Cheers,
NITRO1250
#692
I am still reading back at page 16… but I though I should share.
Last summer I applied for a job as an e-commerence website designer. I am well qualified too. The company, whos name shall remain annonymous, wanted to sell their shoddy clothes online to customers. Ok fine. Since I didn’t have a degree (100% self taught), I went $12-$15 per hour of work. After my “interview”, I was told that they were going to call me back. I was never called back. After looking online for their “site”, I found that they must have hired some idiot to make it because it featured 3 Buffalo Sabers Tee-shirts in small/medium/large sizes which they would link to, get this, a Yahoo! store where they have to pay 15% of what they make to Yahoo. Consequently, there have been no additions to this “site” as I believe they fired the guy after he made if for them. It was a REALLY bad site, like 1 banner and a black background. It would have taken me like 5 min to make it.
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Here is something more recent. As I am working on my final project for my Advanced Maya class, my mom kept saying that I should be rendering while I am working on my project so it wouldn’t take so long. :eek: What? You can do that? lol, nope. So far, after having chats and explaining things slowly it is helping so far. It is almost as funny as my dad believing that all widescreen movies are the same as standard screen movies only with black bars covering the top and bottom of the film :rolleyes: Alrightey then… Then again if I make a box and just slap a texture on it, he calls me a genius…
Artbot
#693
I’m afraid this is not uncommon. My brother, a programmer for over 10 years at Microsoft (!) also thinks this.
NITRO1250
#695
Wow… it wasn’t until we were watching Kelly’s Heroes and he commented that everyone looked like migits, that I rewinded the film to the beginning and pointed out that it said “filmed in panovision”. Ugh…
DimitrisLiatsos
#697
OMG…this is the funniest thread ever!!! 
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more …more please…
p.s; i will come back with a couple hundred stories to write down for sure…but i will NOT be held responsible for the coffee spilling…
…hint…u got to love art directors from Advertising Agencies…especially when they sit down besides u when u work…:twisted:
octopus7
#698
I was showing some workmates a kitchen scene I had done (it’s in my portfolio here) as I was rather proud of it. Being my first V-ray interior and all.
One of the guys blurts out when he saw it “Why didntcha just take a picture? why bother spending hours doing that when you just have to take a picture instead!”
I just looked at him dumbfounded and totally speechless thinking to myself that it was a miracle the guy could even breathe!
Because I do a bit of techie stuff with computers (have built about 10 of them so far) I often get asked to look at other people’s computers that a malfunctioning, here’s a few classics.
1 - computer was running slow and certain games (ie quake 2) weren’t working, when I had a look the game quake2 was installed on all 3 hard drive partitions WTF?
2 - Someone at work complained the printer wasn’t working. It really helps if you press the big button marked “ON”!
3 - An idiot I know who knows nothing about computers yet he tried to put a water cooling system in and didn’t tighten up the hose clamps properly. Suffice to say that when he powered up his computer it turned into a fountain and fried itself and blew all the fuses in the house.
JeroenDStout
#699
I was working on this opera house scene (still am, I just realise) and a friend said “if that takes 8 hours to render, why don’t you just draw it, it’ll be much faster and easier”.
I still haven’t got an answer to that question that pleases me.