Chad Warner Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Had a client once who thought with the magic of Photoshop you could take a picture of an object, spin it around so you could see the back of it. If the guy on TV can take a single pixel from a reflection in some guy's eyeball and turn it into a full photo of a person, how come you can't do soemthing as simple as showing the back of an object? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M V Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 These clients are always stressful to work with, but as long as I am clear about additional services fees in my contract and getting paid hourly for nit-picky stuff, I dont care. Explain the limitations of the 3D software's real-world cameras and meet somewhere in the middle. In most cases, clients dont know a thing about 3d - thats why they hire us. They see the insane stuff that Hollywood produces in the movies and they think we can do ANYTHING because its digital. They dont realize the computing power and $$$ involved in creating that stuff. I had a client that just kept pushing and pushing and tweaking cameras after final renders and I just got so aggrevated that I had to have a dicussion about how I just couldn't make any more revisions and we had to wrap the job up. They agreed and that was that. They even paid me a 'bonus' in my final payment because they felt bad about the extra time that I did not charge them for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hunt Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 clear communication with the client is essential and can often save alot of hart ache. Having said that if this guy is so against 3D why did he come to you in the first place? Possibly recommend a good hand perspective artist. jhv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3D_IC Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 The problem with clients like this is they have a clear idea of how it should look, but have no idea how to communicate this idea to others. 99.9% of the time they are a pain in the neck and just keep changing the design until the building is built. My personal nightmare client and there has been a few of them in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acjwalker Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Had a client once who thought with the magic of Photoshop you could take a picture of an object, spin it around so you could see the back of it. Had a very similar thing, wanted something that wasn't even in the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil poppleton Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Had a very similar thing, wanted something that wasn't even in the image. Always remind me of every time a client wants a building removing from a photograph, and as if I have a magic button on my pc that allows you to see whats behind........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3D_IC Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Blade runner has alot to answer for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 LOL at the Blade Runner comment! Just remind your crazy clients that the Vigillante in Death Wish movies was an Architect... (guess there was no ArchViz CGI jobs back in the 70s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alexander Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 Just had to post this one, its a classic... "I do not think the computer can accurately deal with interior perspectives - we have seen this problem many times. You must go to the space and sketch the actual conditions, then render the perspective by hand on the computer without aid of any perspective programs. Please see the attached hand-drawn image in Power Point - crude but it shows the effect more like what will really happen. Stand some workmen at different points in the room at the same and take photos from different angles, then even depart from that if needed to make the point that the rooms are very large. The carpets and wall sconces are not attractive, nor is the furniture, etc, but perhaps that is all preliminary.." ........ Beer is good, people are crazy .............. Seems like he's describing the distrotion that come from manual drafting perspectives, subject being placed very close to the origin. give the over exagerated sense of scale and more inportant a 'wrap around' feeling to the image. If done properly, probably as the individual had been taught, returns a very descriptive and appealing image. People as described put in the scene where they are not distorted add a real feeling of scale and correctness. this is a hallmark of architectural and interior design Illustration the type of view being described...... Guess it's not so spastic in the end. One would have to let go of absolute dimesions in a real world camera sense and using cameras to achieve the effect. But it might be possible, given the range of FOV's below what one looks the most 'natural' to ones' eye Your choice to feel what you feel what you feel.... just want to point out things are rarely what they may be percieved to be and in this case I would propose that both are right and wrong and there is a good middle ground if it's worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noise Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I think this client just needs a bit of education and a hug god love him ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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