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#862

“I saved in .bmp format yesterday, and now when I opened them, the layers are gone!!! how can I put them back?”
Explanations, etc.
“So you say .bmp is like .jpeg?”

This was the most hilarious thing I hearded this year.

#863

I had a manager (who was younger than I was. Younger should = more tech knowledgeable, right?) who would always pronounce “editable EPS” files as “edible EPS”

One day he asked me to give him something in an “edible EPS file”.

I said “would you like some fries with your edible EPS?”

It just got a blank stare, however.

#864

May I do a little victory dance?.. I just read them all!

And I must say bobcat… I think i can’t top that with the thing I felt bad about at work.

Well I am part of a new art department in an office. So that means I get images in word documents and powerpoint presentations all the time and can actually work with them :slight_smile:

But a few months back… I had to do a nice 3d picture for one of our workers, to symbolise what their department did. Very well, I made the picture, rendered it nicely, was quite pleased with it… and a day later…

(oh the horror)

…someone brings in the flyer they made with it (I had no knowledge of this) someone grabbed my picture (nice with alpha and all) scaled it vertically in word put a few photo’s and logos around and over it (all to low resolution and in square pictures) made the background a very hideously blue…and where actually proud to show it to me!!?

I kept smiling without saying anything, especially “If you wanted to do something like that why didn’t you ask me to do it?” I keep it on the wall of my office to remind myself that once you finished your part the image belongs to the client.

Thank you guys (and gals of course)!

#865

actually it is possible that they were entitled to the equipment. it depends on how your contract was worded.
If you had said “for this project, the work will cost X dollars and the equipment will cost Y dollars” in the contract, then the wording would need to clearly state who owns the equipment once the project is over.
In the above statement have you said:
“you, the client, need to buy Y dollars worth of equipment in order for us to complete the project”?
or have you said:
“the reason we need 1/2 upfront is to ensure we can deliver on time. and for your info we are using Y dollars out of the X to pay for equipment”

I nearly fell into that trap when pitching for a project, if we’d have gotten the project it would have been unclear as to who owned what.

#866

One of the weirder things at [company that dare not speak its name] was “team building sessions”.

They’d hire some sort of corporate motivational/efficiency/process expert who’d coach us on something. Once we spent a whole day writing a “mission statement” for our media group. (“We do media projects” was not sufficient.)

Other people would come in and give us tests with questions such as:

I like to use colored folders to organize my work. (T or F)

and then put each of our names somewhere on a quadrant chart with labels like “investigator”, “organizer” , “facilitator”… I’d usually end up in the “loner” quadrant.

(My manager said this quadrant stuff was all occult-based)

Anyway, not all of these experts were as good as those. For one event the company sent in a couple of women from the HR department. They were used to having people quietly listen to their spiel. They were definitely not used to anyone questioning their ideas, which was what our group of artists pretty much did all day.

Toward the end of the 1st day (OMG, these things would run more than one day) the heavy one was going on about something and I raised my hand and interjected a “but what if…”

That’s where she finally lost it.

“You shut up!”

“YOU… JUST… SHUT… UP!!!”

and it got stronger from there. She went on screaming at me for about 3 minutes which is a long time to listen to someone scream. I said “I’m sorry” more than once but she kept on going.

The session adjourns

Fade in to the next morning before the team building session reconvened. The heavy one comes up to me and says sotto voce “we discussed whether I should apologize for my little outburst yesterday… but we decided I didn’t need to and that it would distract from our agenda today. I just thought I should communicate that to you.”

Gee, thanks, heavy HR lady!

#867

Yes… that sounds familiar… in highschool music class I had a teacher that couldn’t cope with discussion… and the “what person are you” type tests I have had in university

Also…I wanted to apologize Rob, for calling you bobcat in my previous post… :slight_smile:

How about a client that was very upset when I send in the preliminary sketches to get approved (it said so in the connected text): “That isn’t up to the standard you put into your portfolio! What do you think sending this to me?”

Well that was a very low hour of my life… yes, I first want to be sure you like the concepts before i go ahead and put in more work… because I don’t do things ten times when not needed. So yes these are not up to par… but it isn’t finished yet! :rolleyes:

#868

This is rather a sad story of an earlier class mate of me when I started my 3D studies at school.

After our the new school computers arrived, we all started to customise our computers, downloading msn, plugins, drivers. Adjusting mouse speed, screen resolution and so on.
It was during those time my classmate, sitting next to me and looked at my monitor and asked the magic question:
“Hey… how do you do that, changing the picture in the background?”

I didnt quite understand what he asked about right away, but it turned out he wondered how I changed my desktop wallpaper.

This guy had no knowledge whatso ever with basic use of computers. And now he is sitting next to me, and soon to be diving into 3d softwares and everything related to it.
It would have been a tough year for me if it werent for I had (been gifted with) a bad right ear by birth and barly heard more of his magic questions…
I admire my teachers willpower not turn a bad ear to this student.

The school implemented a new “Basic PC knowledge required”-system with interviews for the applying students to the school after that year.
Sad story.

#869

I love those “I thought we hired a professional!” comments.

I got one like that from the nowhere woman.

#870

“Could you render those trees so they look more real?”
“The trees ARE real. The building the in the foreground is CGI.”
-Blank Stare-
“The image in the foreground is 3D, everything else is a photograph. I composited the two together.”
“Whatever dude, the trees look fake. Render new ones.”

ANOTHER
“Yes, we can send you our company logo. We’ll give it to you in the largest format possible.”
I get the image, and it’s a 72 DPI grayscale.

ANOTHER
“C’mon, Photoshop is easy. Just use the Clone Stamp! I love that tool! I use it for everything!”

#871

My worst comments come pretty much every time i have to explain to someone what I do as a matte painter. Normal responses come in varieties along these 3 basic structures:

  1. ‘Oh, so you like… cut and paste photos together?’

  2. ‘So do you actually paint any mats at all?.. like… table mats or whatever?’

  3. ‘Oh, so its not actually painting like an artist would do.’
    At this point i would normally respond with something like ‘No no, there is actually lots of normal painting involved its just done digitally’
    ‘So not by hand…’
    ‘Yea by hand but digitally using a special tool that lets me paint into a special piece of software.’
    ‘…but that looks like a photo…’
    ‘yea there are photo textures in there’ (at this point you see them make up their own mind in the same direction as person #1, but i continue anyway), ‘but its supplemented with lots of painting to blend things and there is a lot of artistry in matching things like lighting, perspective and colour etc.’

At this point it has definitely turned one of 2 ways. Either they come straight out with point one, completely ignoring my well worded explanation. OR, if im really lucky, at this point the person will fall back to that old classic:
‘So really the computer does the work…’

I generally repeat this routine a good few times per week too, coz nobody in the world has ever heard of matte painting…
On that point, i get a number of people who approach me and say ‘oh wait aren’t you the guy that someone said was good at painting maps? We are doing a movie and want a LOTR style flyover of a map.’

…MAPS!!!

But of course, as always, i remain the gentleman and smile politely as i re-enter the routine from the beginning.

Nick

#872

[left]“Make it uniquely generic.”[/left]

#873

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[left]Lol, are you seriously kidding me?[/left]

[left]I’m still a student in high school but I have a couple of stories.[/left]

[left]Story 1:[/left]

[left]Last year I modeled a detailed pagoda and my cousin thought that she could do the same because 3d obviously is only about “pushing” buttons rather than verts, edges, etc. She had my brother “instruct” her in the ways of 3d and needless to say, she played with a cube for ten minutes and gave up.[/left]

[left]Story 2: (Happened recently)[/left]

[left]I’m in an intro business class and we were assigned groups (those in my group are my best friends) and asked to come up with a business idea and present it to a panel of judges yesterday. My groups’ business idea was a movie theater/restaurant. I wanted to build the facility in 3d but only had a week to do so. As mentioned a few pages back, production is BRUTAL; I was literally down to the wire. I started agonizing over it and one of my group members said,“Teach me that [program] so that I can help you.” I did however complete the model.[/left]

[left]Keep these stories comin’.[/left]

#874

LOL SantoAnderson… now those are funny :slight_smile:

#875

My company designed and built a display booth for a rather large client to use in a trade show. My supe wanted to enter it’s design into some award show afterwards and the entry deadline was 1 week after we built the booth. Rather than hire a photographer to get decent pictures of the thing, they thought it would be better to just have me model it in maya. Yay for me… and they fired the guy who designed and had the booth made so I got a bunch of old and mismatched blueprints fished out of his laptop, and blurry camera phone pictures to use as reference.

During a meeting with the GD in charge of designing our entry for the award show, it was revealed that he wanted me to not only model the booth, but everything inside. All the products, vehicles, chairs and tables. To be done in a week, but to not spend too much time on it because the budget was tight. After some explainging from both my supe and myself, we settled on just have the booth with it’s stickers.

Fast forward a few days and I have the booth made (its freggin huge and designed weird, with a lot of stickers everywhere) and we have a review meeting with the GD, my supe and myself. His comment was, “looks great, now get an animation of people walking through it for tomorrow. Make it look photoreal of course.”

After my rant about how even big production studios can’t get human realism down, he quickly tried to save his butt with, “ugh well maybe we will just photoshop some photos of people walking”

Dude is sitting 2 spots to my left right now.

#876
  • The fox should be the bull, and the globe should be the matador.
    - The yellow at the end of the fox. . .could be the red flag.

feedback for a client’s logo… I dont know but it sounds like a weird haiku or an magic spell… I really dont like making logos!! grrr hahaha

#877

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Accounting Teacher-: “Stop downloading the pages, Your wasting the Ink!!”

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Needless to say the entire class found this little comment amusing.

#878

Accounting Teacher-: “Stop downloading the pages, Your wasting the Ink!!”

Aaaahahahhaaha…that just made my day!

#879

Been reading this mammoth thread all week lol.

Thought i would add mine.

I had just left Uni and was looking for my first job, so i couldn’t afford to be very choosy. I found a studio that was looking to hire a grad so i applied. Anyways i liked what they had on there website and it all looked very professional. i agreed to start in a two months time “once i had graduated” so everything was fine.

Anyway next Friday i got a phone call asking if i could “start work on Monday” as they had just got a huge load of work from a client that they wanted me to start right away. I replied that as i currently live on the other side of the country and have yet to move/find a house/graduate/Finnish my current job, that this would be unlikely. They replied that they had a friend who had a flat for rent that they could set me up with “very nice of them”.

Eager to impress i agreed and drove across country to arrive in time to meet my new work colleagues, i got a some papers for the flat that he had booked a viewing on and said that he could give me a reference for proof of earnings. All was set till i looked at what the rent would cost!

I was earning only 16K Before TAX but the rent was 680 pm with no bills included. I asked if this was the right amount he said yes, So i said that i would have to cancel the viewing as there is no way i can afford this. he replied:
“well you are not earning enough to live around here really, have you not got any relatives you can stay with?”

In the end, desperate for somewhere to live/work after leaving all i knew behind LOL. i found a room in a house full of foreign immigrant farm laborers, that i could afford “I had to answer the door every time a guy in a suit knocked :)”.

Anyway After a week it became clear to me that no one their knew what they where talking about! worst still the “big job” that i was hired to complete did not materialize. The boss called me into his Office:
[color=Red][b]“That Job you were meant to do, has fallen through. And i currently dont have any work for you so as you where originally due to start in a few months i think we will go back to that, See you in 8 weeks.”

[/b][color=#fffffe]Having just spent all my savings paying for my deposit plus first months rent up front, the prospect of being without work for 8 weeks was a dire one. I could have rolled over and stacked shelves for 8 weeks and borrow money to keep above water but i decided after working only 1 week at my new job to risk it all. I explained the obvious implementations of what he had suggested and that even my contract as a full time employee prohibits such actions “although technically still on probation”, in the end i said i cant afford to take 8 weeks off unpaid as i will not be able to afford rent and i would lose my deposit making it difficult/impossible for me to find a place in 8 weeks time. After a heated discussion that i was terrified would end in the words you’re FIRED, he eventually relented:
[color=Red][b]“Ok i will see what i can do, This is why i wanted a student you normaly dont have all these comitments.”

[/b][color=#fffffe]I should have just left and even though i wanted to i couldn’t as i spent all my money getting this job, so i spent 6 months working diligently till i eventually quit only to be told i cant have a reference due to:
[color=Red][b]“Giving you a refrence would be like helping you find a job! Thats not my problem? it will only encourage my other employee’s to leave”

[color=Blue]MORE TO COME…[/b][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color]

#880

Worst comment yet :smiley:

#881

This hurts…