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[DDMan]

The stories in here are so unbelievable, so immensely “wrong”, I’m almost getting distrustful of new clients.

Then again, there would be little to laugh about in our world without stupid clients…

[Johny]

agreed ! wanna hear more stuff people !

[Random_Sime]

I worked for a friend once who treated his studio floor like it was a dojo and would practice staff fighting while I did graphics work. Ex-Israeli army dude. Completely nuts.

[CaptainObvious]

Ex-Israeli army dude.

So he’s not Israeli anymore?

[mr3dguy]

So he’s not Israeli anymore?

Is·rae·li /ɪzˈreɪli/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[iz-rey-lee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -lis, (especially collectively) -li, adjective

–noun 1.a native or inhabitant of modern Israel.
–adjective 2.of or pertaining to modern Israel or its inhabitants.

Touché

[CaptainObvious]

ahem

If you say “ex-israeli army dude,” it usually means he’s not israeli anymore, whereas “israeli ex-army dude” means he’s still israeli, but not in the army anymore, and “israeli army ex-dude” means, well, you get the picture.

I’m just being a smart-ass.

[Random_Sime]

Well technically he never was Israeli. I think he was Australian born to Israeli parents and grew up there, but lived back here in Australia since his late teens.

[amannin]

I was working on this scientific visualization project back in school, where I was the “maya guy” – meaning anything 3D would be pawned off on me. I was basically charged with creating dynamic universes such as the birth of the milky way O.o I told them this was a new area for me and so I would neeed a little time to learn it properly (and that maya wasn’t the best tool for this) – it was agreed that this was fine.

I was basically “let go” when I kept hitting limitations and my progress with being halted…a few weeks pass and I get a call from a friendly acquaintance of mine…

He calls me asking for help on this project he just started. Turns out, it’s the same project I was let go from…and that he doesn’t know anything about creating dynamic universes.

So in short: They fired me for not knowing enough, then hired a guy who knew even less. This guy then turned to me for help. Gotta love the irony. Actually, I decided to help him and told him to make sure he mentions my name if they ever ask who is helping him :twisted: (yessss, bask in the greatness that is irony, muwhahaha)

LOL – i’m not really bitter about it – I just love the irony involved…

[Okkine]

My mom started asking me where I was all night, and when I tried to tell her I was at school, she would never believe me. For the longest time (probably still to this day) She thought I was on drugs and partying all night!

Like I would pay like $12,000 for school and go party instead of working!(or have money left for drugs)

I know it’s hard to immagine, but there was a surprising amount people in my school who spent over $25,000 just to party and play xbox. I personally don’t have that kind of money to toss around, but even if I had a rich mommy and daddy paying for my schooling, I can’t immagine wasting so much time and money.

[enygma]

Translated: I was laid off because I work too fast & was actually productive between projects. Oh well, I guess accounting is too complex for a mathematician (me) to understand.

Interesting how you look at it that way.

If you look at it from a business perspective, you were generating less revenue for the company (“too fast” meaning less billable hours) and cost them more money (“productive between projects” meaning more time spent doing non billable tasks).

Having started going through my “mini-MBA”, it is interesting to see things from a different light. Although it was unfortunate how they handled it (at least based on the information you provided). Unless they gave you warning as to what you were doing wrong before and and saw no correction, they can be liable for wrongful dismissal.

I’ve heard of a situation where someone was dismissed even after 3 warnings (one verbal and two written I think), and somewhere in there had a performance review, and because there were a couple good points on his review, he turned around and sued the company because he was fired, even though they had some good things to say about him (on paper).

Oh… and regards to accounting, try financial principles in business accounting… sometimes there is enough there to confuse even the brightest minds in math…

Trust me, there is more than enough complexity in there for one to shake a stick at.

[Oddgit]

I was once doing a short animation for a client, it was just a basic logo but was going to take a while to render, lots of shiny and glass. I remember showing him a preview and a playblast of how the animation moves and he loved it. So about 20 hours in to the maybe 40 hour render (i had a slow computer back in the day) i get a call asking if i can make something a different colour or some other random ass thing. I told him i could, but it would mean a rerender of the animation and i will have to charge more, because i would take another 20 hours to catch up to where the render was at right now. He said something like cant you just photoshop it up? I should have said yes and told him it would take 20 more hours but i said no, it will take another render. I thoroughly confused him with the fine art of rendering techniques, by the time i was done he was so confused i could have told him it would take even more time.
Moral of the story, explain what render time is =D

[thatoneguy]

*couldn’t you have just rendered out an alpha pass in a few minutes and used that as a mask for a cc in post?

[NanoGator]

*couldn’t you have just rendered out an alpha pass in a few minutes and used that as a mask for a cc in post?

^^ Was wondering the same thing. Color change is the easiest and quickest change to make.

[Oddgit]

this was when i first started in 3D, i had no clue how to do render passes or even use After Effects, i was a big nub back in the day =D Now yes, i could do an alpha for CC and even have render pass layers. Oh well, that was almost 8 years ago now.

[japetus]

Oh these are priceless! I have a few as well:

We do a lot of shop layout design. Upon looking at our renders of a store the client says “Why are those shoes in the front larger than the shoes in the back? They’re supposed to be the same size!”

We made another shop for a client, and she came back with teh comment that, “the fixtures need to be 4 inches apart from one another.” We were terribly confused because, normally clothing fixtures are at least 1.5 feet apart to enable people to walk between them. So we called her back for clarification, and it turns out she was printing out our render on some arbitrarily sized paper and measuring it with a ruler!

[nickmarshallvfx]

we called her back for clarification, and it turns out she was printing out our render on some arbitrarily sized paper and measuring it with a ruler!

Haha! Quality!

[japetus]

Just remembered another one!

I did some freelancing for a few months in between jobs and I was working on a short cg film for a guy on the other side of the country. The director supposedly had gone to film college and was adept at compositing.

One day he told me to render out some frames with a green background. I said something like, "Why do you need green backgrounds? " And he say, “Well i’m going to be putting this with the live footage so I need something to key out.” I said, “Why not just use a tif or targa or something?” He goes, “Well, how am I supposed to key out the alpha? I can’t see it.” I sat there dumbfounded for a few seconds and said something like, “but…with the alpha…you don’t need to key…” He paused for a few seconds and was like, “uh, yeah… that’s right…just do that…” But i wasn’t ever entirely convinced he got it.

[NanoGator]

this was when i first started in 3D, i had no clue how to do render passes or even use After Effects, i was a big nub back in the day =D Now yes, i could do an alpha for CC and even have render pass layers. Oh well, that was almost 8 years ago now.

Ah! Okay.

Apologies if I sounded condescending.

[PhantomDesign]

Projects were billed per-project; artist hours were only used internally, at least for the first year that I was there. They started to become very strict about logging hours the last 3 months I was there, but we were told (as usual) it was only for internal purposes to see where hours are being wasted, how long projects take to complete, and stuff like that. I wouldn’t say that the accounting was so much complex or confusing as it was simply narrow-minded and flawed.

They could have at least warned me about this, and if anything the “Directors” are at fault for not properly assigning tasks.

Wrongful Dismissal:
I might be able to, but that’s a much longer discussion for anotehr thread. I will say that performance was high, there were no warnings, everyone (supervisors, coworkers) loved me, projects were great quality and ahead of schedule, and it was the exact oposite of what everyone expected.

Interesting how you look at it that way.

If you look at it from a business perspective, you were generating less revenue for the company ("too fast" meaning less billable hours) and cost them more money ("productive between projects" meaning more time spent doing non billable tasks).

Having started going through my "mini-MBA", it is interesting to see things from a different light.  Although it was unfortunate how they handled it (at least based on the information you provided).  Unless they gave you warning as to what you were doing wrong before and and saw no correction, they can be liable for wrongful dismissal.

I've heard of a situation where someone was dismissed even after 3 warnings (one verbal and two written I think), and somewhere in there had a performance review, and because there were a couple good points on his review, he turned around and sued the company because he was fired, even though they had some good things to say about him (on paper).

Oh... and regards to accounting, try financial principles in business accounting... sometimes there is enough there to confuse even the brightest minds in math... ;)

Trust me, there is more than enough complexity in there for one to shake a stick at.

[mynewcat]

Interesting how you look at it that way.

If you look at it from a business perspective, you were generating less revenue for the company (“too fast” meaning less billable hours) and cost them more money (“productive between projects” meaning more time spent doing non billable tasks).
Trust me, there is more than enough complexity in there for one to shake a stick at.

I disagree - if he was making use of time between projects, then they should thank him for that not fire him. It shows short sightedness.

Sometimes the management structure literally do not care at all - it’s just a matter of who is assigned to a job, without really looking into it.

And as for making their processes even faster - well, all that would mean was they could still bill clients per project, and simply get more work done and take on more jobs, or take the saved time to improve the quality of the work and perhaps bill more.

There is no complexity at all in this case. Time is money.