Horhe Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Now have a bit of a break and unload some of the responsibilities on to the willing volunteers here - you deserve to share the load a bit! Yes, loads of great work youve done here this year Jeff (as well as past years). Its time you shared your work with other moderators and members and had a brake - even if it is for a short while. Overall thumbs up very very high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias_marks Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Jeff, don't know if this has been said or not, but let's not dwell to much on the negative here. "We become what we dwell on, be the change you want to see" - right? I'd just let this fall by the waistside and focus on all the positive I think has come from these competitions/awards. Which has been outlined quite well in the previous threads... Can't wait to see the finalists! A small crit here I would make is to possibly upload the videos (with user permission of course) to vimeo or youtube or something. I only made it through about 3 videos due to downloading problems as well. Honestly I know the quality suffers a bit, but at least you get to get through the animations at a reasonable pace. Maybe there's too many copyright issues and it may deter some great animations from getting uploaded....an idea though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antisthenes Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 ya, you give us this guys address so we can give him a 'talking to' Jeff does a great job, compared to many other forum admins who run them like little dictatorships and stifle all dissent based on their own biases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodT Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I hope this fellow takes a moment to read this thread. The way that regular visitors admire the efforts you take, the skills that are passed along to others who are not as skilled, the unstilted way that the "masters" try to help the less skilled. It is my HO that any complaint from a "newbie" should be discounted. It is a shame that people like this lack manners, or the intestinal fortitude to present their views for others to offer their thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nazcaLine Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 he's just a CG troll. ignoring them is the best medicine. Eduardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayrona Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 vanity my favorite sin... Jeff your passion move it all........ dont give up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean@pikcells Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Your work and effort is much appreciated! Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian P Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 this guy sent some more disparaging comments via PM, so I decided to pull up the images that he submitted to the competition. One at best is a 5 or 6 out of 10, based on scores of existing images and the other I doubt would get more than a 3 out of 10. Oddly enough this image is the one he was so proud about. I know this is probably against one rule or another, But please post them, that way we can all have a laugh, sorry 'fair critical assesment' of the images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizwhiz Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Jeff what is your favorite beverage? beer, wine or etc? where can we send This To? what quanitity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 yeh jeff ur the bees knees cos none of the rest of us work hard. ur the only one who knows what hard works is, so respect to you. jeff for prime minister i think. Sorry, I missed your point? Don't recall saying you did not work hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 get a grip randy. i wouldn't send that. what's he done that deserves that? his job, perhaps? why dont you sent a crate of beer to everyone, since everybody has jobs and works hard. stop being a numpty. Neal, seriously did someone piss in your cornflakes for the last 3 years straight? I know you've got an axe to grind as I banned you a few weeks ago, but it seems the only time you post is to say something negative about someone else or some situation. Trust me banning you again, permanently I might add, only takes me about 5 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 get a grip randy. i wouldn't send that. what's he done that deserves that? his job, perhaps? why dont you sent a crate of beer to everyone, since everybody has jobs and works hard. stop being a numpty. Hmnn...I don't think you get it. CGA isn't "his job"...as in, he's not some worker bee who's responsibility it is to keep this site up. And what have YOU done to help all of us out? CGA has helped countless artists get better at what we do for a living. When we have a place to go, with many professionals, to learn, share, and grow...that's a benefit to ALL OF US. What have you done to benefit all of us? Nada. GOOOOOoOoOOOo ENGLAND! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Twyman Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Hi Jeff, You can see from the replies to this post that there are so many people that appreciate all the hard work that you have put into this site and the industry in general. Don't let one person who obviously has a chip on their shoulder get you down ('m sure you won't) there's always one!! This site has helped me out countless times when i have been up all night struggling to get things done. Seriously it really is appreciated. Have a break though you deserve it. Hopefully see you in La Coruna, from the replies on here it doesn't look like your going to be short of a drink but you can definitely count on another one or two from me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Thanks to all who have posted the kind words. I really appreciate it! I was not soliciting a pat on the back, just a place to vent after a really long week, but still nice nevertheless and energy boosting for sure. Some of you had posted offering to help out in some way, which was also really nice as well. Thanks! The monkey on my back is doing a complete redesign of this site. Anyone who has been around for a while knows I've been saying this for years. Problem is I can never seem to find the time. It's all I can do just to keep up with the general maintenance and the emails. Some fresh site content is long overdue as well...sigh... The one thing I am in desperate need of is very talented, reliable and not too expensive developers (MSSQL and ASP.NET) and website designers to help me get the new site off the ground. I just don't have the skills to develop what I really have in mind. If you, your company or one of your contacts is this person, do let me know. when I can I'm developing the wireframe diagrams for all of the various components, so hopefully I can get that done soon. The new site redesign will make is much easier to publish new content quickly and also bring on help to do this too. Right now it all works, but an outsider would end up deleting half the site if they pressed the wrong button on the backend admin interface. Thanks again to all those who posted the kind words! Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Have considered using a content manager like Joomla? Something that has a lot of the pieces already in place. No need to re-invent the wheel. Maybe you already are using a similar system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Have considered using a content manager like Joomla? Something that has a lot of the pieces already in place. No need to re-invent the wheel. Maybe you already are using a similar system. What I have now is home grown, but I am likely going to use another CMS called Graphitti which is faily new and based on ASP.NET. Whatever solution I get I need to avoid PHP as I am on a windows server and PHP tends not to scale as well. I'd use Wordpress as it's really nice, but again it does not scale as well on high traffic sites either and is also PHP based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Bold Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Here Here Jeff, your efforts for the industry seem to go unrewarded - but you can't expect to be loved by everyone, so don't bother trying. There are some of us here that do 100hours a week and also have wives/husbands/partners you might not fully understand our passion, it's best to focus on quality of life. But assuming your site is the authority on 3D archviz, and that someone with only 2 posts on your site is an unknown newbie not worth respecting is just as bad as their initial rant at you. My studio would be happy to help with improvements to the site you're talking about.. just send me a message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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