Worst Comments 2

#1262

Sadly, I am now year two at Hogwarts.

Hehe, well I find it funny too. :beer: But back then, I was contemplating genocide.

#1263

i dont post for a long time, but i have to say its a pretty stupid move of you to stay at a school that obviously is clueless about everything , just use that money and time to build a portfolio for yourself.

#1264

Heh, I’ve had teachers like that. I’m in High School and have done some work for projects and such and it must have been sophomore year or something in biology we were tasked with creating our own creature, a image of it along with life style, biome, ect. anyway we were give four days to do it and I made -for me at the time- a complex scene and model using Zbrush, Blender, Vue, and PS. The due date came and I presented my work along with my peers in three person groups, the rest of my group either didn’t do it or had drawn it before the teacher had came around to check. When he finally got to my table he was convinced that I had taken it off the internet, and threatened to report me to the school board for plagiarism. In short after about seven minutes of walking him through the entire process of how I made the low poly in blender, brought it into Zbrush do do some sculpting and to make maps, and Vue to make the environment. After all this he was (understandably) lost, so I tried to sum it up by saying “I do computer animation as a hobby” to which he replied with a blank stare, now I -visibly irked by the drama of last few minutes- said with an exasperated smile “Toy Story?” still seemingly not getting across, so then I said “like Wallace and Gromit but on the computer”. He spoke a silent “oh”, nodded in psedo-knowing way and walked to the next table. I’m acually filling out the Common App right now and from these stories I can only assume I’m going to deal with this type of thing a lot.

#1265

Stupid move you say? This is the closest thing to 3d and animation that there is in this country. So I stick with it to get a freakin’ diploma. :slight_smile: There’s also quite a bit of free time for me to do my 3d projects. It’s just that sometimes crap like that happens and I just want to explode. I’ve learned not to expect anything from them, so when similar events occur I just smile and laugh inside.

Chapter Three

There’s one of the teachers with whom I made a month long side-project last year ( he got me the project, I did it and he “supervised” ). I also get all 10s ( maximum ) for his class, and I meet him in the college hall earlier in October after summer holiday.
He looks at me while sipping his coffee:
Teacher: What year are you?
Me: ??? … errr, two. ( what the hell, dude? did you hit your head on something? )
Teacher: Who do you have class with?
Me: … you.

#1266

ROFL!! :bounce:

I feel for you, dude!

#1267

Modelling a kitchen a while back:

Me: Hey man check this tile floor out…

Mate: Yeah that’s okay I guess. It’s looks fake though. Maybe you should put some trash or dirt or something there to give it some more realism.

Me: This is for a brand new kitchen…

Him: So?

Me: …

Dirt does not a realistic scene make.

#1268

Depends whose kitchen you are modeling. Is this a student project? :stuck_out_tongue:

#1269

This just happened- not really a “worst comment”, but kind of funny anyway-

Client: “I’ll fax you my e-mail address.”
Me: “Great! I’ll e-mail you my fax number.”
Client: Long pause followed by laughter; “Oh…I see your point.”

Good times.lol

#1270

Just a tangent from that last fax post- Used to have a client that hand wrote “If you do not receive this fax call me at [phone number]” at the bottom of every fax.

I don’t know how I am supposed to know the number, or even If I didn’t get the fax, if I didn’t get the fax.

So, I started including "If you do not receive this email … " in all my emails to the client. I don’t think they ever got it.

#1271

Boss: I think rendering out greenscreen takes too long. So, instead of doing a GFX for a greenscreen background, I want you to design and have a custom studio backdrop produced for this client. [details wanting a pic of house with product on it, size, etc.]

Me: That custom backdrop is a 12 x 10 foot print job, I’ll need some high res photography of the product to lay it out.

Boss: no problem, I own a house up the road, the Greyon House, that has the product on it, just swing by and take whatever pics you need.

I get to the “Greyon House” and it lives up to it’s name. Grey siding, grey trim, grey gutters, grey roof, and grey window frames. Even the driveway and mailbox are painted grey. I take photo’s, I lay out this huge print job, I present a proof to my Boss.

Boss: [scratches head, looks… scratches head, looks closer] “I can’t figure out why the house is so… colourless, so grey…”

#1272

I love this thread, it has provided hours of entertainment and I feel for your pain people, I really do.

I had a boss that got mad because I told somebody about the programs I use. He called me into his office and said,

“Dont tell anyone what software we use, cause then other people will get it and do it all themselves!”

Me, "…:surprised "

Yes, because anyone can just pick up Maya or Houdini, etc and just make art with it…:rolleyes:

#1273

Actually…

We took over a printwork project, which was the usual, strictly 2D, glossy corporate brochure type thing. But it had an interesting logo which staying unchanged for the brochure. The previous designers were un-willing to send useable files (but that was between them and their ex-client) but they did let slip which software they had used for the logo.

The next day I had a brand new Cinema4D v5.2 box on my desk.

…and thats how I started out in 3D!

#1274

lol, thats funny. But the way he meant it was that just anybody could pick up a professional 3D app and use it like it takes no skill. And its not all that hard to do a quick search online for “Best 3D Application” and the top 5 are a group of Maya, 3DS, C4D, etc.

Another good Quote I have from when I first started 3D is when I was asked to help create an Indie Game. This would be “WOW-style but better”, lol. So I asked him what the budget for the Game was, he said, “There is no real budget, its coming out of my pocket! How does $15-$20 per model sound?”

Me stunned, I asked, “What kind of models?” he said EVERYTHING, textured, rigged, characters with more detail than WOW and whatever else. Its safe to say we lost touch, plus the guy had nothing ready, all he had was the desire to create a “WOW-style” Game, and expected me and whoever I could recruit (lol) to do everything for that price… Ahhh, dreams.

Although it was a Funny Experience, and everyone I told the story to had a great laugh.

#1275

So… Vernon Jones of Georgia doesn’t pay us for a campaign commercial after he loses and to “make up” for it his campaign manager sends us a client. They want a site that lists all of Atlanta’s restaurants with type, location, phone number and a pic or two. We say OK… It will be Flash with an xml backend. Price 2k. One page agreement sent. Back comes a four page contract :curious: with multiple reiterations of the same language interspersed like more legal mumbo jumbo means crap in a handbag :rolleyes: ( my contract training says if you repeat something twice in a contract it MUST mean something different the second time)… In it is a searchable database, login and separate pages for each restaurant to log on and alter their entry, a WordPress blog :banghead: , the ability to search for all restaurants within a given mile distance and by postal zip code and to write the code so that an online reservation system can be easily put in place, downloadable pdf menus for each restaurant…blah blah. Furthermore we were not ever to place this work amongst our portfolio pieces and the payments were split into 5 parts starting with 250 bucks. We respectfully declined and got a phone call stating “What is the problem…There wasn’t any changes…only additions”…<–! :banghead: Maybe if she puts some cows.lwo in her database it will deflect reservations to the proper restaurant.

Best
Randy

#1276

lol I love that. That same woman would never go to McDonalds, order a small fry and a cheeseburger and then after hearing the total expect it to be cool to get a quarterpounder and a large fry for the same price. Less even. Yet, as it’s just for an artist’s work, it’s no biggie.

#1277

Built a digital cleopatra for a discovery program, the director wanted you to see all the veins in her as the poision made its way through her xray body and veins to her heart. I asked which way did they want her facing.
"Away from the viewer, like were the assasin putting poison in her arm.
So 2 days later they see the shot and ask how long will it take to get a shot with her head turned to face the camera.
“2 days? Cant you just flip it?”
"No that dont work, she’d still be facing away. " Send a rerendered still to the producer because if you render it instead of doing it in photosop it will work. Doesnt work…
“Jesus, what does it take to just get this shot like we asked? "
" Um, rigging, re-setting the geometry moving up her entire nervous system, re rendering of mattes of internal organs and bones, comping”
“2 days, you people are a joke, look just tell her to turn her head round and re-render it.”
Phone goes down.

#1278

This makes me even more thankful that I have had to deal mostly with people who have at least a rudimentary understanding of the process.
Not that I don’t like explaining things, but working on a project for someone who thinks you’re some kind of magician, although flattering, sucks all the fun out of it.

#1279

Try doing military training simulation work. The kind of people that you have to deal with that just don’t have the slightest clue as to how the process works is mind blowing. Deadlines come through the pipeline set up by the powers that be that are absolutely unfeasible, and all you can do is crap out something that you know is nowhere near up to the quality you and your team are capable of but it’s the only thing you can do to meet the deadline. It gets very frustrating putting out software where you cringe when you see it.

Case in point: We (as in the 2 artists) were asked to model as accurately as possible a 10 mile by 10 mile section of a port city for a boat sim. They wanted to see ALL the buildings on the shore line (and I mean ALL) as accurately as possible, along with all the docks, piers, cranes, etc that you see, as well as the buildings going into the mainland. Our only reference that we had came from using Google satellite imagery and just picking a spot on the coast and working our way around. The ammount of time that we had? A month.

#1280

I always thought Cleopatra killed herself with an asp ??

#1281

ASP, PHP, .PL, it’s just semantics at that point!