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Worst Comments 2
G3D
#1303
Here is my story … from way back. In late '96 I was doing some 3d illustrations for a Bay Area design firm that had many toy accounts. One project involved the Mutant Ninja turtle line. The particular line had a “warrior” style of turtle: more humanoid in proportion and build.
One of the designers there wanted some changes: “I like the human lips but not with the shadow under the lip. Shadows are always turtle-ee looking. We don’t want that.” Verbatim quote.
digitalx3d
#1304
A few of my favorites…
“It’s perfect! But if you could just tweak…”
“It’s identical to the last building you did, only with different shaped windows and new color scheme.”
“Just make it 300 dpi”
Crotalis
#1305
Why would “just make it 300dpi” be a “worst comment”? I mean 300dpi is a magical number that makes EVERYTHING perfect regardless of all other issues right? Doesn’t it? I mean all those other resolution options are just there for fun right? I mean if not then my entire world is about to fall apart…lol
nmcelmury
#1306
“Just make it 300 dpi”
Ugh, if I had a dollar for everytime I heard this. We got to the point at the last job I had where we told our management that we would no longer respond to the word ‘just’.
sandra0
#1307
and that innocent request for a “quick” model & walk through for this “little” summer resort … and the very big exclamation mark after “why would u need all this time for ?” … “can’t u do it in two days ? it’s very simple !!!” … “oh and we need some night shots too” …
imashination
#1308
Jeez I forgot about this one, not really a specific comment, but just the offer I was made on a job. Anyway, the job was to do some stuff with a porno tv station so they could beef up their christmas shows with some 3d titles. Now not that I think most viewers care about the titles much but hey, who am I to turn down a job.
First of all, for anyone whos never done such a job, and id imagine its the majority of people, the studios are like a torture dungeon. As you walk down the hallways, you just hear moans, groans and screams coming from all the rooms you pass. Yes, theyre editing the video 
Ok, to the point, I finish the 1-2 day job, theyre all happy and we get to the fun end bit where they cut me a check for the work done. They get the chequebook out and just before he does, he places before me a huge box of porno videos. At this point he tells me they offer most people this, I can either take the agreed amount, or I can take the box of porn…
Money or porn, money or porn… it is a tough choice.
But, the absolute best bit; when I started there, they showed me some of the stuff previous freelancers had done to give me an idea what they were after, and I recognised a piece of the work from a friends showreel! After taking the cash (no, honestly) I asked him what so-and-so took, he told me he took the box of porn.
To this day, this guy doesnt know that I know he took the porn, and it WILL be used against him if ever needed Oh, and he’s a regular on cgtalk here…
system
#1312
this is similar to other stories.
Around 2001, I am working at a huge ad agency for a very big global client, one of our most senior clients needs help with a presentation and at the time the best way for me to do what he wanted was to create the presentation for him in Flash. I ended up going to the presentation as emergency tech help (I was actually the account guy but I was learning flash and dabbling in other stuff as I was bored with my job). anyway the meeting goes really well, so well in fact that my boss’s boss’ boss gets an email the next day telling us to teach the guy’s assistant flash (the guy could barely run powerpoint). After numerous attempts to dissuade him (all we need is presentations!), I suggest a phone call with both of them as a kickoff so the client would at least understand the time commitment for his assistant. I set up a webex where I could open a flash file and start to walk them around the interface.
we get on the web ex, I open a file that is pretty complex (yes I was trying to stack the deck) after a few moments of silence the assistant says ‘John stammer,stammer,stammer,stammer,stammer I don’t know if I can do this’.
Needless to say the call ended there and the subject was dropped.
Kanga
#1313
Ha ha, I remember way back when office guys got incredible woodys from powerpoint. I was learning 3d at the time and had no idea what it was. Not much has changed 
kromano
#1314
Haha man, Powerpoint was one of the first applications I used as an animation tool. I never did learn how to use it for its intended purpose until just recently, some (over) 10 years later. I quickly figured out how to set the page transition to none and an automatic timer after 0 seconds, then just shifted around clipart for a while. It was pretty fun stuff.
DizzyJ
#1315
Rather than a worst comment, this seems like a pretty good outcome to me. Your bosses saw your work and got excited about it. They didn’t know what was involved, but tried to bring that level of quality to all of their presentations. When it became clear that the people they would be relying on to deliver the end result didn’t have the skill, they dropped it immediately. I feel sorry for the PP guy, though, because he missed a great opportunity to learn a skill that would have in the long run paid him more and given him more job security.
On the other hand, maybe he was too intimidated to learn. My very first job was using WordPerfect for DOS, which was a nightmare to learn, as everything was done via F-keys. So you couldn’t just sit down and start typing, you had to learn the command to start typing. Kind of like Shake 
(To WordPerfect’s credit, it had amazing documentation). One of my co-workers was a woman in her 60s who had gone through WP training twice on the dept.'s budget, and then paid for training herself another time. She just couldn’t get past the intimidation factor to learn the software. I think she struggled on until retirement, but it was sad to see her suffer so much every day, thinking she was too stupid to use a computer.
ilmostrog
#1317
DizzyJ, I think to some degree you are right, that the clients saw good work and wanted to try to do it all the time, however there was some subtext to this, at least I think. Because my job title wasn’t creative, the client assumed that if I could do it, anyone could and it should be as simple as creating a powerpoint presentation. This client also had a reputation for not being interested in details ‘just get it done’. This is a common trait in a lot of senior level executives I know but it certainly has it’s short comings. Probably not a ‘worst comment’ but certainly an example of client not caring to hear some of the details and would rather ‘we just do what he wants’.
DizzyJ
#1318
The part of Shake that’s tricky is that your have to use a file-in node to get started. Which is like having to hit whatever F-key you had to use in WordPerfect to start typing. Neither program is particularly difficult to learn if you have a manual or other instructions, but if you just open it without instructions, both are very unintuitive.
Kenny_Hootkins
#1319
This is second hand, but still a good Worst Comment story: A friend was working on some animations at a studio that were for a science show. The project manager often took on art direction and was according to my buddy, “very bossy and had to always get her two cents in.” She was reviewing some shots that showed the first land animals which were giant bugs that had lived way before there were any dinosaurs. Apart from the bugs and some simple plants, there wasn’t much else running around at that time. So she goes: “Gosh, it looks so dreary! No big trees or flowers. Can’t we make it prettier?” My friend says: “There weren’t any yet. Thats part of the point of these shots.” Then she says: “Well can’t you just take some artistic license? Besides YOU don’t know … all that stuff is just a theory anyways.” Then to top it off she started saying there should be sounds of chirping in the background when its done. Another guy reminded her that the studio didn’t do mixing and that that was going to be a different studio’s job.
I would have been conking my head on the desk if I worked there.
amannin
#1320
I swear this moment is straight out of a comic…
At a print shop, we were asked to mount (4’x6’) coroplast both front and back, mostly with a solid color and a strip of white with some text running down the bottom. So we tell them it would be a lot faster and easier on our end if we just bought the color of colorplast we needed, and only mount the strip, rather than printing out entire sheets and trying to mount 600 of them.
The next morning, one of our managers comes in and says he has a great idea. He basically repeats everything we said the day before and looks at us with that “everything is fine because I am so smart” look – whereas my colleagues and I just stare at each other in awe.
Unfortunately the client ended up picking a color that wasn’t available in coroplast, so we had to do it the hard way 
Remoth
#1321
Another Horrible Comment I remember was from an old boss. I kept pushing for a script of the project from the client since they had promised us one and we were always told we were getting one… So after 2 weeks of doing nothing but modeling and texturing things that we think we might need, I ask again about the script. He replies, " Its coming."
I said, “well its been “Coming” for a long time. We need it. the deadline is approaching fast and we dont know what kind of shots they want!”
he replies, “it doesn’t matter what the script says anyway, just make everything and when we finally get it, just throw in the cameras.”
Me, " :banghead: … :argh: " (Its a Big Area!)
yes, because when leonardo davinci painted the mona lisa, he painted 10 feet around her and then trimmed off the excess… sigh… What ever happened to having the script when the project starts, not 9/10ths the way through it! You dont Build a skyscraper without looking at the BLUEPRINTS!