loydering Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 On the shirt tail of Ryan Spalding's thread on "What is your least favorite aspect of this biz?", I thought this might be a good follow-up. 1) "Could we get some people in the scene that look like hip young architects or people in labcoats?" 2) "We would like to see more people with bags and dogs." 3) "The wall color should be more of a Nude Buttercream" (I kid you not). 4) Photosimulation of a highway: "Can you turn the image around so we are looking the other direction?" Uh... it's a photograph. And you took it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 Best one I ever heard was a client who wanted the hairstyles on the people to be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 "I'd like to see more of the roof." I hate that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully712 Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 Dealing with roof top units. They wanted me to render images from 500', 1000', 2000', and even 3000' wondering if you could see them from those distances. It was crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noise Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 Can we have another sun on this side of the building ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harjeet Singh Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 "can we have it done by today evening? the drawings are almost ready to send you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skala67 Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 "Here is the space plan. It hasnt been designed, but could you throw something together to give to the client and we will design it later." "(first email) This is junk....it isnt what we wanted at all" "(second email 2 hours later) Actually I just spoke with marketing and we love it. Could we have you do another one for our next project?" there are plenty more..but it is monday...brain no function well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 A few years back when we still did websites on the side: A computershop asked us to make a price for a webshop with a cms, bargain basement, client login, a page to put together your own PC, mailing lists, and practically everything else they could come up with combined with a very specific design demands. We calculated our design cost's and asked 2 programmer compagny's for their cost's and send it all back to them. Their written awnser: Oh, forget it then, i know someone who can make it for ? 250,-, and really professional too. P.S. same subject: http://www.clientcopia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arquiteck09 Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 Do you have any still image that looks like my floorplan ?? i think the price is to expansive........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Nichols Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 Back when I was doing archviz in Houston, we had a client ask us to remove one of the women from the render since she was too "hot." It seems that they placed the render in the office lobby to show people the new project, and the good old boys were making lewd remarks about her. Gotta love Texas... don't bring in the guys for harrasment training... change the rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 "Can you have homeless people on the streets" "That guy (photo image) looks too much like another architect I know". "I just don't understand why you cannot model everything now and we can decide the views later". "These are really poor people that will shop here. Don't give them any nice cars". "You need to model all 4,000 stone pieces to match this pattern. Lay them exactly as you would a real brick floor, brick by brick." He actually described what commands to use and got very upset when I told him my program did not have those commands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully712 Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 we had a client ask us to remove of the women from the render since she was too "hot." Haha.. I had the same thing happen to me one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunDon Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 This was direction after the fact from our client's client which they reluctantly passed on to us... apparently the only complaint about our work was that they wished we hadn't put any black people in the image. I'll let you all try and guess which state it was. And no, thank God it's not Texas. Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully712 Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I thought of another one. I was critized once for making an ugly building look good. Or the other way around I was told to make it look bad so the client wouldn't go with their options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecastillor Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 "can we have it done by today evening? the drawings are almost ready to send you." if i had a dam nickel everytime I heard this one...MOFOS! it has to be this one..... An interiordesigner asked to model some "rooster" figurines to go on top of the fridge.... for "good luck" she said.... Haha.. I had the same thing happen to me one time. curiously...I had the exact oposite happen to me....I sometimes use a hot lookin chick from the got 3d collection...and one horny client (a big shot executive mind you) kept asking me who she was...that he wanted to meet her..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Nichols Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 I thought of another one. I was critized once for making an ugly building look good. Or the other way around I was told to make it look bad so the client wouldn't go with their options. I have put plenty of lipstick on plenty of pigs. Somedays I felt more like a make up artists than a digital artist. This was direction after the fact from our client's client which they reluctantly passed on to us... apparently the only complaint about our work was that they wished we hadn't put any black people in the image. I'll let you all try and guess which state it was. And no, thank God it's not Texas. Shaun I have to know. You owe me... actually you don't, but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 What about, - can you make the house next door look bigger.. it seems ours is to big.... !? - we really don't like that part of the building, put some MORE people in front of it,... - could you scale the furniture down. It's quite a small house .... (seriously !)... greets. p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 When I was showing a client of mine an AVI-file he moved the mouse cause he wanted to look around.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmoore97 Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 we recently did a rendering that had a red car in the foreground, which the client ask to be removed because the president gets distracted easily when looking at things. they then inturn asked us specifically to put in 2 hummers, a black and a yellow one, because the president owned one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizwhiz Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 i did a rendering for a school district That is predominantly non-white just for variety i place 7 minorities in the front of the main office view and somewhere on the fringes There were 3 white people i was Told To Take out the 3 white people, because They said "There were Too many white People" ?? arent we all evolved from The same set of pre-human chromosones?? just different skin Types?? i sunburn easily and would love To have darker skin (even some kind of chameleon camoflauge color scheme would work well) Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loydering Posted December 20, 2005 Author Share Posted December 20, 2005 we recently did a rendering that had a red car in the foreground... That reminds me of another one. We were doing a series of photo simulations in Lincoln, Nebraska. The client continually asked us to put in "more red pick-ups". Apparently Lincoln is full of them or something. Go Cornhuskers! Okay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 arent we all evolved from The same set of pre-human chromosones?? Some are still pre-human: "Can't we take out the black guy?" Fortunately I've only heard that once in twenty years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunDon Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 ...the only complaint about our work was that they wished we hadn't put any black people in the image. I'll let you all try and guess which state it was. I have to know. You owe me... actually you don't, but still. I still owe you at least a round for writing that VRay g-buffer tutorial! It was the great state of Oklahoma. In fairness, the comment was driven by demographics of the region -- which I can relate to, coming from a state (Maine) that is 98-point-something percent white. Still, I can't believe it really bothered them enough to even appear racist. Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 It was the great state of Oklahoma. In fairness, the comment was driven by demographics of the region -- which I can relate to, coming from a state (Maine) that is 98-point-something percent white. Oklahoma is NOT an almost all 'white' state. I used to live there. It's quite diverse, really. Maybe not as much as New York, but still diverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 I had one like that. It was for a hispanic market, the client didn't like the high end cars I had put in he wanted beaters. I didn't have beaters. Developers have such attitudes about money. Logically what he said made sence but the tone was something else. The tone was "these people have crap" and "don't make it look too respectable". But he also did not want hispanic people in the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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