Client demands

[Spikeadeliv]

Cathartic

I never forget being asked to make an image 20% "better" ....

I've been asked to make a render look more "special"...

I am currently working at a place where I have been told not to make it "look good - we dont charge for the renderings so we dont want to spend any time on it".

Good to see everyone else gets the same s**t as me, make it 20% better, I hear you!

SketchUp is the bane of my life, architects dabble and find they can push and pull faces, awesome, then when thay can't actually do the same finished image as me, 'Oh we didn't want a realistic feel', what had they been struggling on for a week then?

Two most used words in architecture, unresolved and in abeyance, still need an image by end of play.....................

I had to create a staircase, with Max I did it in approx 20 mins, FFD 2x2x2 to stretch it and hey presto, it fits, the architect behind me was aghast, one of his companions had struggled with it in another 3D package (not SketchUp) for 2 days! But they were on another floor, out of sight.....................

Doing 5 colour options with 3 varieties in each, x15 images! in an hour please!

Given x number of options an architect will always pick between several and ask for a percentage of each, then the client picks a colour based on a logo he just saw, not even thought about in the original brief.

Anyway best not to bite the hand that feeds me and most architects do realise what they are asking, I usually tell them even if they don't and its hilarious when other architects start bitchin' about each other, worse than 14 year old teenagers. I am also sure that architects have as many 'gripes' about visualisers, a bit like men and women, it did create the best type of music though, Blues...............................

Just to finish off, I once saw a review of a film based around an architect, it stated that it was better than usual as the architect wasn't portrayed as a control freak or, wait for it, a dandy narcissist!

Longest post ever for me.

laters

spike

[simmsimaging]

Don't even get me started on this one....

Here's a clip that says it all really:


http://typophile.com/node/58578



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[Spikeadeliv]

VRay forum rules.............

Reminds me of a joke...........a man is charged for incidentals on his hotel bill, 'what are these' he asks, 'mini-bar, peanuts, phone in the room', but I never used any of these.

Suddenly he replies, I want 20% percent knocked off the bill as you had sex with my wife, the receptionist replies 'I certainly did not, SIR!'

yeah, but she was available..........................

and there's more, as my old friend Paul said, if a plumber turns up and quotes $250 on a job, you don't say, well I only have $150, could you do $150 worth of the job!

Like I was asked many times when I was a commercial airbrush artist, eons ago, happy days!

laters

spike

[Morne]

Try this:
"The image is too realistic, we are not trying to create a photo here"

Oh really? Then why you having me render the same image 50 times just to move a tree 1cm to the left, or because the wall textutre is too rough, or because the cream wall needs to be more cream. Just how cream can a cream wall get then?

[RE:FORM_STUDIOS]

goddamn, not exactly on topic but I just had my client over looking at some work... he prodded my screen at a few points and now he's left I've noticed my screen's got a bit yellow stripe up the middle of it...
NICE ONE!!!!!

£300 out the window if my warranty doesn't do the trick...


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[duke2]

goddamn, not exactly on topic but I just had my client over looking at some work... he prodded my screen at a few points and now he's left I've noticed my screen's got a bit yellow stripe up the middle of it...
NICE ONE!!!!!

£300 out the window if my warranty doesn't do the trick...


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Well it looks like next time you'll meet at HIS office. With 2 ready and willing prodding fingers.

[joconnell]

goddamn, not exactly on topic but I just had my client over looking at some work... he prodded my screen at a few points and now he's left I've noticed my screen's got a bit yellow stripe up the middle of it...
NICE ONE!!!!!

£300 out the window if my warranty doesn't do the trick...


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Some cock came into a company I worked in to do a visualization thing for a product he was going to produce and when he was looking at images he wrote on the screen. With a ballpoint pen.

[Morne]

hehe I use to work with a guy that could go nuts if there was any fingerprints on his screen. The boss always use to come to his desk and point on the crt glass which part of the drawing she's talking about. Whenever the guy just get a hint of the bosses hand being raised he quickly pans the drawing. Hehehe it was very funny.

[Sawyer]

K heres a new one for me:

We were working on images for a large infrastructure site. Nothing fancy, just schematic images. But when it came to print we were told we had to print in black and white. Apparently someone high up on the clients end thought that color printing was a waste of money.
Began thinking about this - they spend some good money on color images... just not the couple of dollars extra it would have cost to print those images. Maybe in 1986 it would have been prohibitively expensive to print in color but come on!
I don't feel this way often but I hope that person was fired.

[Codi]

We are doing a typical arch animation and the client asks for some of the frames to be printed in A4 @ 300dpi. We explain that these images will have an extra cost as they require additional work, his suggestion? Do the entire animation in A4 ...

[WimOos]

we recently had a client providing plans etc. We modelled it up for his comments and he commented that it does not look right. When I pointed out that we were building exactly as his plans provided, he commented that his drawings are as it could be and not as it should be!

[Neilg]

We had one a couple of years ago. It was a huge tower on a dock, so loads of water in front of the building. He didnt like how the building looked in the water, and asked if we could remove it and just reflect the sky. Then when just the sky was being reflected, said there was something 'off' about it and it didnt look right.

No shit! Should be a building in it.

[dellis]

All these stories are great! I think we've just invented the first internet support group! Hello everyone...my name is Dwayne...and i deal with clients....

[sv]

We are doing a typical arch animation and the client asks for some of the frames to be printed in A4 @ 300dpi. We explain that these images will have an extra cost as they require additional work, his suggestion? Do the entire animation in A4 ...

hahaha classic.

[Codi]

hehe

All these stories are great! I think we've just invented the first internet support group! Hello everyone...my name is Dwayne...and i deal with clients....

Is good to have a place to vent

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