Worst Comments 2

#1222

this craigslist ad is PRICELESS:

http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/med/808694307.html , very much inline with whats been said in this thread.

Aggh my eyes!! :eek:

#1223

Here is the craigslist ad for the historical record in case craiglist delists it.

#1224

Hi everybody!
I really, really love this thread, incredible stories you have!! :applause:

So I´ve got also one, which some of you may have also have experienced:
Not too long ago I was working on a feature film with a lot of vfx for maybe 2 years in my spare time all day and night, which was really fun actually!
So, of course people asked, how it will be released?
Mostly the conversation went like this:

  • Hey cool, you did all that in your free time? Where can I watch it?
  • If everything goes well, it will be released on DvD (getting proud)
  • On dvd, cool, but maybe you could send me a copy?
  • Well, actually we need some money, so it will be kind of you if you would buy the dvd.
  • BUY the dvd? Oh no, I´ll wait until it´s released on YOUTUBE.
  • :curious:

Greetings to you all!!

#1225

Quick,… someone email King of Lightwave! This is right down his alley:eek: No phone, no mac, no,…

Which dimension do these freakin people drop out of anyway?

#1226

Quick,… someone email King of Lightwave! This is right down his alley:eek: No phone, no mac, no,…

Which dimension do these freakin people drop out of anyway?

No way man! Final Fantasy 7 quality?? Lightwave just CAN’T do it!! :stuck_out_tongue:

#1227

Wasn’t FF7 done in Lightwave?
Given the volume of software mentioned, who wants to bet they didn’t pay for any of it? Although, in all fairness for the terrible wage they do mention it’s a not-for-profit organization (a recording company that operates non profit?).

#1228

$9/hr for working remotely for some clueless client with ridiculously overblown expectations utilizing an almost impossible level of skill, knowledge, and software ownership

vs.

$12/hr pouring coffee at Starbucks, and you get benefits.

Tough choice.

#1229

You know, perhaps in computers doesn’t work that well, but when working on cars… Brute force and ignorance can fix almost anything.:thumbsup:

I have one… This has happen to me more than once. Some times when a client comes, my boss wants to show them my renderings (which he is very proud of). So, I go ahead and show the clients a few of my renderings of previous projects and they say:

“Wow, it’s amazing what computers can do.”

I guess it’s just a matter of clicking a button and it’s all done eh :shrug:

#1230

We were talking about KING OF LIGHTWAVE! The evil nemisis of 3d. Read back some pages.

Lightwave does not suk:)

#1231

So Friday, a client calls in with a project request, He wants this monster trade show display designed and sent off to the printers… Thursday. Being Labor Day weekend, this gives me (and me alone, I’m the only GFX guy at our outfit, and the only one with any print experience) Tuesday and Wednesday to complete this large, very complex design (8 panels, about 20 x 8 foot total).

My boss thinks this is a perfectly doable and says “Yes, no problem.”

The majority of elements are supposed to be sent to me by the client, Logo’s, product photography, etc. I as for vectors for anything logo- he sends me bitmap logo elements from his website. I ask for vectors again, He sends me the files he already sent. The third time, I finally get vectors. mostly. Lots of elements to be rebuilt.

So, why am I here posting when its Wednesday afternoon, and My deadline is tomorrow morning? Because, I’m waiting on the final logo from the client. His company logo, which I find out today he has not even had designed. So, he says he knows Exactly what he wants, and can have it to me by noon today.

about 11:45 AM, I get a call, it’s the client.

“I know exactly what font I want for my logo, but don’t know which one it is. Can you tell me the font I’m thinking of?”

“… can you describe the font a bit?”

“No, I have it in my head, can you tell me which one it is?”

“…”

Fortunately, at this point, my producer (we’re not a print house) steps in and jokingly says “I’m sorry, we haven’t mastered the Vulcan mind meld, go to MyFonts.com and look around and pick a font.”

So, I wait, and tomorrow, a deadline will be missed, and it will surely be all my fault.

#1232

We feel your pain Cliff! We’ll get you through the though times here with this thread!

Quickie:

client wants some quick cartoony 15-30 sec animations showing some different techniques on clean power. Okay we can deliver, we have artistic freedom, and even if quite complex processes have to be shown in 20 sec average no problem.

So the animations are shown for proofing.

Client: most of the camera movements are too quick, I want them slower

We: That is possible but than we have to cut some elements because of the timeframe

Client: No I want everything in, just slower movements. Can’t you make it longer?

We: Sure but you said it had to be 30 seconds max…

Client: Ah don’t worry about it, take the time you need.

We(thinking): Why didn’t you tell us that in the first place!

So anyway that time spend simplifiying beyond simplicity and using every ounce of creativity in our bodies was wasted then last update one day before the deadline

Client: That is nice. But I want it to be clear that there is only power being generated after nine seconds of the wheel turning.

We: Okay, but it shows quite clearly that there is power generated right? That was what you wanted, easy simple and cartoony right? just like the others?

Client: yes but it has to be clear it is nine seconds after the wheel turns, Oh and BTW the doors opening isn’t that clear maybe add some power cables and rotating lights.

We: but that’ll mean you have to see those so basicly we have to do most of the camera movements again and add the elements. Maybe you want a sirene too?

Client: No just do it, that won’t take too long right?

Okay, so we got it done, even though the project was an inbetween and even with sound although our soundman was on holiday… but man… :slight_smile: Luckily we were praised afterwards. Ah you gotta love those clients.

#1233

Next time just politely remind the client that computers are just a tool and don’t do anything on their own. Does a hammer build a house? :wink:

#1234

I read all about the King of Lightwave as they were posted.
I never clained Lightwave sucked so I’m not sure why you quoted my comment. I don’t know if Square used proprietary (or unknown to me) software when producing FF7, but I do remember seeing a number of LWO converters for the data off the Playstation CD so I kind of thought that Lightwave was the product used when they made the game, hence my question.

#1235

Oh yes it can but it will need a heck of a lot of hidden cows for the particles to bounce properly!

:smiley:

/Anders

#1236

Maya and Renderman were used for Final Fantasy.

http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/01q3/ff-interview/ff-interview-1.html

At the time the movie was made, Lightwave wasn’t capable of that. It is now though.

#1237

No, not Final Fantasy the movie(s), Final Fantasy VII the video game.

edit But thanks for the link, it was interesting to read… makes me want to go back and watch the movie again.

#1238

LOL!!! Man, that’s mind numbing.

#1239

I mean, I understand that clients want you to read their minds, I’ve just never had one, with a straight face, blatantly ask me to do so.

I’ve go so many more from this particular outfit. When I first started reading this thread last year, I thought my own “worst comments” stories would make perfect fodder for that weekly comic strip I’ve been meaning to do for forever now.

BTW, thanks everyone for their stories- this thread has kept me sane when it was all I could do not to through a chair through a wall. :slight_smile:

Like a fellow co-worker here says: “We joke about it, but we’re not laughing.”

#1240

Hi, I’ve been reading this board for a couple of years but only now made an account. Nice to meet all of you :slight_smile:

My worst comment story is: I was asked to design a logo to be silk-screened onto a T-shirt for a school production a few years ago. The teacher managing the play forwarded the E-mail from the T-shirt company which contained the specs that it needed to be ‘2 colors max. and be submitted as a VECTOR art file’.

Having used adobe illustrator before I traced my pencil sketch with the pen tool, filled it with the appropriate colors and then E-mailed it off to the teacher.
Two days later I was called down to the office to see a very angry T-shirt man who started lecturing me about how I submitted the file “in the wrong format” and he had no idea what “.AI” as the file extension meant. He continued by yelling at me in front of various members of student council (who were still in the office) that he needed “VECTOR ART” and how much he hated working with art students.
Embarrassed at the time and not having very much experience I told him that I made the design in Adobe illustrator which I thought was a vector art program.

He calmed down and started to explain to me that he had worked in the T-shirt business for many years and Corel Draw was the industry standard. Nobody used Adobe illustrator for vector art and that it was just some ‘tack on’ for photoshop to make masks. This was 2004 or 2005.
I’ve since done lots of vector art for assignments and companies and I have yet to be asked for ‘corel draw’ format since that day.

My second story is more recently where I worked for a charitable organization that wanted to add an interactive flash game to their website.
At first when I sat in on the meetings it started out as just a simple game, similiar to the ones found on various product and wine websites. We visited the penguin wine website and showed the people who worked in the office the penguin hopping around, the simplicity of it etc.

My job was to simply create the characters and backgrounds for the company’s interactive and then the office ‘flash expert’ was going to code it and make the game.
I spent the next week at my desk making sketches of the various images and proceeding to get sign-off from my manager so I could proceed to painting it up digitally in flash.

Everything was going well until I was called into a meeting again …while I was gone my manager had promised lots of things that couldn’t be done. My manager’s boss now wanted a neopets-like website where all the games revolved around the themes and subject matter of their organization. They wanted not only for people playing the games to choose from 5 different avatars to play as, but they also wanted ‘pets’ to choose from which could help you and offer interactive tips as you made your way through the games. The pet would be animated and follow you throughout the website (the the MS word paperclip on steroids)

After expressing just how challenging that would be to create for one artist and one programmer over just a few months they still refused to give up on the idea. After a month or so my manager was let go and whole project was scrapped. I spent the rest of my time there creating stock-illustration for their various publications before my contract ended and I returned to school. :slight_smile:

#1241

just remember the projects will eventually end… the project that prompted my own post here, at the end the client was actually very appreciative and thanked me for the hard work. fortunately i just bitched in this thread instead of actually to them, or i doubt that would have happened :slight_smile: thanks everyone… sniff