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@user-H_m
Жыл бұрын
Unfinished project: Looks good, just needs to be finished....
@unchew
Жыл бұрын
After buying the license from a track, the client asked to get the "audiojungle" watermark back in because it added depth.
@paulkingdesign5928
Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@daninmotion
Жыл бұрын
That is classy! Hahaha 😂
@KyleWoodard
Жыл бұрын
LOL
@AkiKun
Жыл бұрын
OMEGALUL
@LauraNM
Жыл бұрын
HAHAHA this one's the best
@xyzgranger
Жыл бұрын
This is excellent content. I had a director behind me who kept muttering to himself 'what would Kanye do?'. Also had one who said 'just so you know, I'm a master of typography so no bullshitting me'.
@aaromat
Жыл бұрын
I showed my process for a logo design from the most basic and trashy sketches to more finalized versions to my client and after they have seen everything, they said, they liked the first one the most, wich wasn't even intended as an option
@Chrispotar
Жыл бұрын
"It looks way too phalic" - it was a thermometer (circle and rectangle with rounded corners)
@forthesyntaxer.9388
Жыл бұрын
For the thank-you of the hilarious-share.
@dthree4113
Жыл бұрын
The "Backhanded" section reminded me of a client's surprised comment of "it looks really professional" to a finished video that had gone through about 10 rough cuts. I'm not sure what they were expecting. Maybe the work of a beginner hobbyist?
@antonino4437
Жыл бұрын
When I used to work with small advertising agencies I got lots of feedback starting with: You know, I showed your work to my nephew and he’s something of a designer himself... and you knew at that moment, that if anything had come up next, it would have been the crappiest idea that could have possibly been suggested.
@JohnCliver
Жыл бұрын
I feel your pain. Half of all clients’ nephews are “something of a designer” it seems.
@antonino4437
Жыл бұрын
@@JohnCliver shocking!
@beaurunnels9030
Жыл бұрын
"Make it Killer" O_O
@TheFiammator
Жыл бұрын
Hi Ben, I was thinking about enroll in your animation course lately, but then I realized that I'm not good AT ALL in drawing. Do you think drawing is an essential skill a 2D animator should have? If so in that case I was considering taking some drawing courses first.
@peternicholson8652
Жыл бұрын
I swear by drawabox... Challenging and time consuming, but you'll make amazing progress, and the techniques learned will help on all aspects of drawing.
@FedericoOndarts
Жыл бұрын
I was once working with an Italian director on a McDonald's commercial and there was a composition where there were a couple of hamburgers in front of a background image. The director told me that this background was very low quality. He wanted it in 4k. I told him we didn't have it in 4k. He looked at me as if I was stupid and then with his iPhone he took a picture of the monitor where the background was and sent it to me. "There, you have it in 4k." Rarely in life do you meet geniuses of that magnitude.
@myvideoguy
Жыл бұрын
Haha ....actually, they're commonly found in positions of power.... haha
@giovannidalben5474
Жыл бұрын
Renè Ferretti direbbe "GENIOOH"
@Dr.Adenoid
Жыл бұрын
As an Italian graphic designer who's worked for Italian firms, do yourself a favour, stop working for Italian companies if you have the chance to do so. It's just not worth the struggle.
@eges72
11 ай бұрын
Holy hell this was so clever and funny that I'm gonna steal this feedback for an actual Apple spec ad
@agustinibarlucia1181
Жыл бұрын
In case you ever do a best client feedback video: I once sent a budget and they told me "Between you and me, you could be asking for more. Send it again ;)"
@thehearingaid
Жыл бұрын
Just for reference, where can we find this client 😬
@myvideoguy
Жыл бұрын
Haha I've had longer term clients on multiple occasions ask me to resend an invoice, but double it first. Won't be naming names, EVER :-)
@bilelsouid
Жыл бұрын
One client told me to double my price once. Best day of my career.
@zetazeta1422
Жыл бұрын
Yep, I’ve had a couple of those as well. Sometimes life’s good 😊
@ihateunicorns867
Жыл бұрын
My client: "It needs more wow factor" Me: "Can you elaborate on that a little?" My client: "I mean jazz it up a bit"
@callumwilliams2172
Жыл бұрын
Alright I'm adding saxophones
@andreymihov8684
Жыл бұрын
🎷🎷🎷
@joshbudhanlall5637
Жыл бұрын
*adds drop shadow*
@dasaca07
Жыл бұрын
2010' Client: Hi David, please send me the video on a USB that I sent you. Me: Ok, but I would have to delete some files because the USB has no space. Client: no!!! everything on that USB is important, just create an empty folder and put it there. Me:......
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
It's worth a shot!
@pose2pose
Жыл бұрын
Client once complained that he paid for a 30-second commercial but the video we sent was only 29.97 seconds long. So I extended the timeline by ONE FRAME and re-rendered and sent it over. Hope viewers enjoyed that extra 1/30 of a second of content!
@turnip1stew
Жыл бұрын
Not jumping on the client side here as I'm sure they are an idiot haha, but in my line we get specs for 10/15/30 second videos all the time and they have to be exactly that as they run in parallel with other media though the day. If it's off by 1 frame it will slowly loose sync with the other media each time it loops until eventually its the completely out from where it should be haha.
@PxxTKlickshot
Жыл бұрын
My best story: Boss told me to make the Logo 2% smaller. I sent him the exact same video with a _v2 at the end. He proudly lectured me on how much better it looks now. I'll never forget his stumped face when I did the big reveal :)
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
Haha, brave to have a big reveal!
@stillremain.artwork
Жыл бұрын
Something similar happened to me, but asked me to rotate the title 0.1 Degrees :D
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
@@stillremain.artwork "just move the logo up 1 planc length"
@munkyflux
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@Cragdognamedbear
Жыл бұрын
Similar thing happened with us where director couldn’t decide on color. Kept looking at our shots and saying “this is the new baseline make them all match this”. Only he kept picking shots based on an old baseline.
@worldisending
Жыл бұрын
The client asked me to make storyboards before they had even given me a script or told me what the video was about
@turnip1stew
Жыл бұрын
Id have just drawn a series of empty rectangles
@ihateunicorns867
Жыл бұрын
I send over work based on impossible geometric shapes (as is the brief) Client: “Can you make it more creative?” _I revise designs and resend_ Client: “It still needs to be more creative.” _I revise designs again and send over_ Client: “You still haven’t made it creative.” Me: “Do you have any references for the sort of thing you’re looking for?” _Client sends me a photo of a deer wearing a necklace_
@Element8909
Жыл бұрын
This is amazing
@dafnah14
Жыл бұрын
A client said to me - "why does it end.. not good" he meant why the sound is not fading at the end
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
Could be feedback on life itself...
@AV.Creative
Жыл бұрын
@@BenMarriott lol
@janarose8179
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@kingdavidjapan
Жыл бұрын
A client told me they wanted the image in high resolution. It was a vector graphic.
@janarose8179
Жыл бұрын
Some guy that do digital prints told my illustrator is not vector .. and he said it again and again 🤣🤣🤣
@kingdavidjapan
Жыл бұрын
A client once said: "The animation is good, but why is it upside-down?" Turns out there was something wrong with his media player, so we gave him an upside-down version too.
@swapnil.chaudhari
Жыл бұрын
haha
@shufflecat3334
Жыл бұрын
As a software developer I feel this. There's always a way to solve a problem which is going to take 20 hours on a screenshare trying to figure out and fix something...or you can just flip the video upside down so the client can see what's it's gonna look like and move on with your life.
@SuicideDog
Жыл бұрын
@@shufflecat3334 this is good advice. how important is this? does a duck tape solution solve it?
@albertocristino
Жыл бұрын
We sent a preview of a video through WhatsApp, client said "i kind like the play button you guys added at the begging of the video". That was WhatsApp's video player play button. we ended up adding one anyway 🤣
@ziazanskittles
Жыл бұрын
My very first project with my first internship the CEO of the company runs every meeting and gives feedback on all projects gave me this feedback: "I hate the text style you used, change it". I asked what she was looking for and she couldn't give me an answer. 1 Week later I left it unchanged and just changed what the text said and she absolutely loved it and used it as an example for the other people for what she was looking for. I'm not kidding when I said this went on for months just like this scenario. I finally quit today partially because of this feedback issue :)
@manulejack
Жыл бұрын
OMG I totally believe you I had an almost EXACT same thing happened in my former advertising agency. The creative director asked me to put a nice "rounded typography" for a text on a poster. I immediately put the "gotham rounded" because it's a very good looking and clean rounded font, very famous and versatile. But he was really not happy. He made me try I believe around 20 other tests with so many different rounded fonts, he HATED all of them. Finally he said "i'm going to do it myself you don't get it" One hour later he shows me the result, proudly and condescendingly, to show me how easy for him it was to do. I swear to god, I IMMEDIATELY recognized he used the Gotham rounded (exact same spacing and layout and everything I swear). So I asked him "is it gotham rounded?", he said yes. I told him it was the first one I sent. He was like mmh' I don't think so". Was so depressed, but after that I totally stoped taking him seriously lol
@paoloa2621
Жыл бұрын
Client: There's not really a brief...just have fun with it! (submits artwork) Client: It's not really what we asked for...
@zetazeta1422
Жыл бұрын
That’s a total red flag
@Andrian_az
Жыл бұрын
hahaha i know this feel
@eges72
11 ай бұрын
Wait did they just create an AI-generated image just to troll the designer?
@TheColinStein
Жыл бұрын
One time, I had a client say something like "Can I see it in every color?" He was trying to design on a color for his brand and wanted to see his logo in every color. All the colors. Every. Single. One.
@turnip1stew
Жыл бұрын
just add a rainbow transition filter and ask him to pause the video on a colour he likes 😂
@abba9265
Жыл бұрын
@@turnip1stewthat’s actually quite genius
@jameshambleton-plumb5404
Жыл бұрын
I've had a client literally make sound effects down the phone to me. "Can we have a few more [makes repeated laser gun, whistle and pop sounds] that sort of thing?" He was referring to the visuals not the sound design by the way.
@weston7995
Жыл бұрын
A client once gave me a Pinterest board with 300+ pictures and asked me to take an “overall inspiration” no matter how many times I asked for details they wouldn’t give me a straight up answer
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
"here's the first 1,000 pages of Google images. I want it to look like that"
@Dhruv1223
Жыл бұрын
Just make some random shit up send it back, say i got inspired by all the pictures that you sent me, and then ask to find which ones inspired you. Whatever they say, say yes
@hannahh7903
Жыл бұрын
Context: Client saw my work and liked my illustrations + bright/neon color palettes. They gave me a completely different style to draw in and a specific color palette that was very fall like (soft reds, oranges and yellows). Anyway, I did what they asked and they said: "Why did you use these colors and draw the people like this? After looking at your style, I was expecting something different. Where are the aliens and crazy colors?"
@Tyzygy
Жыл бұрын
I once got asked to use less fancy fonts and patterns to make it cheaper
@GrantMFletcher
Жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHA LOOOOOVE THAT ONE
@tomroohan
Жыл бұрын
Worst feedback was probably from an in-house corporate role: My brief was a 2d explainer for an internal product. All storyboards designed and illustrated. They were approved. Animation was a go. Spent a week on animation. Sent for approval. Turns out the actual final boss who should have been approving everything was away and her colleague was approving everything I did. The final boss was presented with this animation and said "This is terrible, I didn't want little kid cartoons. I wanted text on photos. This is rubbish"... Mind you this was verbal feedback in an actual meeting we presented to her. We felt like lambs to the slaughter on that one. Completely blindsided
@MrCharliew123
Жыл бұрын
I worked somewhere a couple years ago where my boss called all the social media animations I made gifs. They really struggled with my replacement who couldn't animate. Turns out they had put gif creation in the job listing, not animation or After Effects experience.
@Necrossauro
Жыл бұрын
Client: I know you are no longer working in the office with us, but you could you freelance that project we were doing? Me: Sure, I am available Client: Great, I'm out of town today, so tomorrow I'll call you so we can talk about it in more detail It has been 4 years and I haven't received that call yet
@manulejack
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha classic. I had the same kind of things. So much back and forth with a client before starting. Then he invited me for a coffee to meet in person and discuss more the project. When we left, he told me literally "I send you the assets tomorrow morning". It's been two years never heard from him again hahaha
@generaalnaarling
Жыл бұрын
Sent a pencil sketch to a client, specifically asking them to approve the sketch before I started working on details and colours. Client feedback: "No, I asked for a coloured illustration. This has no colours."
@mikyungkim2067
Жыл бұрын
I once got feedback on a character design for a kid's show. and the client told me to make the girl(about 10yrs old from outer space) look sexier. then they send me the reference of female characters with tight astronauts suit that reveals their body silhouette. I dropped the project and sent them the money back. I didn't want to contribute anything to a pedo company.
@GrantMFletcher
Жыл бұрын
I know I don't know you... But I am SUPER PROUD of you. 👏
@vielotal2461
Жыл бұрын
Gotta keep your morals 👍🏽
@mpbMKE
Жыл бұрын
Had a boss at my first ad/marketing job who would always scream and cuss us out and give nonsense feedback like, "It needs to be couture!" We were making website walkout videos with plumbers and ambulance chasers. There was no such thing as making it "couture." 😂😂
@Cragdognamedbear
Жыл бұрын
In VFX I worked on a project where center point of the story was a waterfall. They decided they didn’t like the waterfall and asked “Can we make the water look less wet?”
@bilelsouid
Жыл бұрын
That waterfall just had to meet me.
@bjornfeldmann6227
Жыл бұрын
I had to do a gradient from blue to yellow but without the greyish green in the middle. I said it was physically impossible, I was told not to be so stubborn and just do it.
@abba9265
Жыл бұрын
I know it’s 8 months later, but I want to know how you pulled this off
@bjornfeldmann6227
Жыл бұрын
@@abba9265 I figured out to put a little white in between to get rid of the green and they were like "See, it's possible!" The moral of this story, clients are always right
@sveinndavidsson
9 ай бұрын
You need a green color with the same/similar saturation as the blue and yellow colors in the middle of the gradient. If you look at color spaces, you can see how a linear line between two colors often go through the middle part that is less saturated.
@t_clabon
Жыл бұрын
In video editing, the email asking for the video to be "shorter, but include more shots" is always a classic
@franciscojacobo2341
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a montage.
@MBaileyuk
Жыл бұрын
I had a client that had an interesting product to help with education in the classroom with children, an all in one app that helps monitor individual progress etc. We scripted, illustrated and animated an explainer video for them, with full animated classes with children and teachers (Lots of characters). The client loved the work and only had a handful of minor feedback points. But one of their major comments was asking if we could make the children 10% older, honestly went back and forth with revisions updating each of the children making them a little older each time, with the client then stipulating "almost there, just another 2%"... I'd never knew age could be represented by percentage. 😅
@franciscojacobo2341
Жыл бұрын
Should have used the age slider like it was the character creator in an rpg
@Vulpes_Shinbi
Жыл бұрын
I once had to build a full brand identity for a company. After 2 weeks of working, revising and getting checked in on I got the feedback: "Is it too late to refund the first 50%?"
@motionbynick
Жыл бұрын
i tell all my clients: *trees should always be sexier*
@lexibyday9504
Жыл бұрын
if "what is the priority" makes them think you're asking what you can leave out ask the more specific "In what order do you want these details to catch the eye?" Because of my autism I learned that if there is a wrong way to interpret what you said people will make a bee line too it and often it's necesary to talk like commander spock to ensure you get the intended response.
@LauraNM
Жыл бұрын
It wasn't a client, it was my boss that told me his wife "did this animation videos", "faster" in an app in her ipad. And asked me if I wanted him to buy the software so I could learn and use that instead of After Effects. I told him he could hire his wife and I quit the job 🤣 Also when agencies get creative and instead of following the client's brandbook they want to "put some stars and sparkles" on everything, and then the client sees it and wants to keep the brandbook style (of course) and you do the job twice, knowing from the beginning that this will happen... Thank you, this was like therapy
@LauraNM
Жыл бұрын
And it was not procreate, obviously... it was something powerpoint-ish, with 3 or 4 slideshow templates
@janarose8179
Жыл бұрын
Oh the brandbook think ... don't get me started
@nylu431
Жыл бұрын
I had an opposite experience working in an agency. The client, big company fresh after a complete rebranding, sends us their brandbook, guidelines, everything precisely thought through and described. Then asks for stuff that clearly goes against that. I would point out the guidelines and get "yeah, it's alright, do it anyway".
@rickardbengtsson
Жыл бұрын
these all hurt and heal my animation soul at the same time
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
The best combo
@alexr.4746
Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, exaclty, very wierd feeling of how its all fucked up but also kinda better seeing that not only u have it:)
@rajrishimitra
Жыл бұрын
Client 1: Why is there so much white space? Fill it with things Client 2: Why can't I click anything? (It was an image) The worst is when they say "It's not bad, but make it better."
@alexjclelland
Жыл бұрын
Client: gives me 4 paragraphs of text to fit on a single sided business card Also Client: The design is a bit busy isn't it? Gee I wonder why.....
@kommandokreativ
Жыл бұрын
I was showing the storyboard for a character animation to my client, when she asked why everything is so static and not moving. ...
@GrantMFletcher
Жыл бұрын
oh. my. gosh.
@BeyMaster0609
Жыл бұрын
This happened recently. “ just ask midjourney for some interface designs and refer those. That’s what we want.”
@alexseleniar
Жыл бұрын
Lol wtf
@PFINNEY
Жыл бұрын
I worked with someone who would only respond to the last sentence of a message. If it was multiple questions, they would only answer the last one. If I sent one question per message, they would only answer the last message. It was very odd
@JohnCliver
Жыл бұрын
I seem to encounter this a lot for some reason. It’s as if they don’t have time to answer all the questions.
@GrantMFletcher
Жыл бұрын
Over a decade in motion design: This is not very unusual actually. When I notice this pattern I usually switch to phone calls to get my answers.
@Limit19970
Жыл бұрын
I've encountered that before. It's soo odd, and difficult to work with. Makes me wonder if they think all the previous questions are rhetorical or if they have some sort of social difficulty.
@SushiPredator
Жыл бұрын
I was once painting a mural and my fiancé was helping me out with blocking in color. A man approached him and asked if he was the artist, he said no and directed him to me, the artist. He said there was project he needed an artist for, i gave him my website link and we said our goodbyes. I don’t think he believed us because days later I got an email written for my fiancé in my inbox along with a vague project for his daughter. Although funny it was a bit sexist and we definitely got that vibe when we were interacting with him at the wall. I kindly told him no and gave him a few pointers about writing cold emails, including the fact that I am not the man it was addressed to. The mental hoops people go through to believe that a man created the work is funny and frustrating.
@FossilArcade
Жыл бұрын
I was tasked with coming up with a new slogan for a small clothing company - the owner wanted to go with "Sick shit"
@Y0L0TH3M4N
Жыл бұрын
tbf i'd buy a shirt with that slogan
@Dhruv1223
Жыл бұрын
I was told that a scene of mine didn't have enough margarine in it. The exact feedback was the way a lentil soup gains flavour by adding margarine to it, the same way more margarine is needed in the shot. The shot was of a shampoo, that didn't contain any margarine
@darumadesigns8345
Жыл бұрын
I've read this about four times... I think I'd have more luck comprehending an eldrich space creature than this "feedback".
@angelaw7963
Жыл бұрын
Had a client email me to not use any swoosh shapes in a flyer I was designing for them because they had been traumatized by them in the past. My design gave them PTSD.
@mohamedwael9730
Жыл бұрын
Send me the PTSD file :)
@poche999
Жыл бұрын
This wasnt really a "feedback" but more like a "pro tip" from a creative director back when I was a junior designer: The guy literally told me to "Start drinking whisky and smoking cigarettes/marihuana so I can resist/be more creative in the advertisment world" .... and he meant it. 😅
@manulejack
Жыл бұрын
Solid advice actually hahaha
@jimjimgl3
Жыл бұрын
Years ago I had a catalog client who had no filter. She'd be on set and I'd shoot something and she'd say "that's ugly". No creative input. We just had to interpret what the hell it meant. She'd also stand behind me and say "capture!" as if I were a gunner shooting at the enemy. The cherry on the cake was how terrible she was to her full-time staff on set. After a few months I began to tell her I was booked and she eventually drifted away.
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
"capture!" Is amazing. I can imagine exactly how they looked saying that
@jimjimgl3
Жыл бұрын
@@BenMarriott Her problem was that she thought of herself as a creative person but in the end she was really a merchant selling expensive "luxury" items. She somehow found talented people to work for her to make her product catalog seems special.
@sunnietora8642
Жыл бұрын
Literally worked 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for majority of a year. I started to burn out and was told to hop onto a shorter project that was a "quick 10 hours due today" and when I gave a draft of it, I was sent the message "this ain't it" 💀
@dylanwilson7544
Жыл бұрын
This is hilarious, fun to watch, amazingly designed, I'm in love with the title cards between submissions LOVE YA BEN
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Dylan! Those are by far my favourite thing to make
@TheTrifeone
Жыл бұрын
@@BenMarriott Brilliant work! What was the main font in those title cards if you don't mind me asking?
@MrBeaun
Жыл бұрын
I was once told to add some "Clear air" between silhouettes of dinosaurs as the way they were positioned seemed to suggest some reproductive activities (according to the client). Not only were these different species but they were facing different directions... the composition was ruined, but at least nothing suggestive was happening anymore 🤷♀
@ThomasDavidsonUK
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for featuring my answer Ben, now I know what a child should look like in my animations going forward can't believe I was so naive
@brynocerouss
Жыл бұрын
At the wrap-up of a meeting about the design of a very simple/small card I was making, the client - WHILE PETTING A SMALL DOG (Think cartoon-villain style) - told me to sing them a song. The conversation went almost exactly like this: Me: Alright! Is there anything else you'd like from me before I get started? Client (holding a small dog): Sing us a song. Me: ...excuse me? Client: Go ahead. Sing us a song. Me: I don't really si- Client: Everyone sings. So go ahead. Sing. Me (thinking, "This is a ridiculous request, so I'm going to respond is a ridiculous way): *Sings a cartoony version of the song "Funiculi Funicula" kzitem.info/news/bejne/2oqJp453gZuAlG0 * Client: .... Me: I'll get the card to you shortly.
@editorkoya
Жыл бұрын
I kept staring at the chicken leg of your t-shirt hdjdkxkxkffj BUT AMAZING VIDEO TYSM FOR THIS!!
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
My eyes are up here! And thanks for watching either
@Chuksonable
Жыл бұрын
@@BenMarriott What brand is this shirt? 🐤
@cristianquinones9772
Жыл бұрын
Here in Colombia the equal to: "add more design" is: "métele más diseño" 😅 Incredible how this kinds of clients exist across the world
@cristianquinones9772
Жыл бұрын
PD: Sorry if I wrote something bad, I'm just learning english
@remigiogonzalezardanaz5676
Жыл бұрын
the same in Argentina!!! sean más específicos carajooooooooo jjajajajaja
@JaneXemylixa
Жыл бұрын
@@cristianquinones9772 Your English is better than many natives' English
@moddymadeye
Жыл бұрын
Working at an agency. *I send version 2 of the video* Art Director: Add X and Y. Me: But the client said they wanted Z. *many versions later, after adding the whole alphabet* AD: The client said they liked version 2.
@wnazgul
Жыл бұрын
Make it pop as a vfx compositor is most of the time: Add vignette, contrast and a lensflare
@NanerBag
Жыл бұрын
I add all of these and more on top of everything i make, it does SO MUCH of the heavy lifting
@barakunasaka2577
Жыл бұрын
"We need more contrast!" It was a design in only black and white. The cherry on top was that the client was an actual graphic design studio...
@KaarloMedia
Жыл бұрын
Maybe they wanted it mastered for 1500nit HDR OLED? 😄
@funkmaster3000
Жыл бұрын
Not motion but graphic design - not long ago I had a client who was very much into feng shui. They hired a feng shui expert who compiled a presentation with do's and don't, motives to use, colours etc.
@herchmerquad
Жыл бұрын
Client had concerns about a font choice and asked if I could make the text look "Corporate ... but FUN" - exact words - no lie. Very much wish I had video of the dumbfounded expression on my face the moment he uttered that phrase. I'm sure I continued to stare into space, frozen with that same expression on my face long after he left. The idea of Comic-Sans came to mind just as a means of rebellion but I was afraid he would have loved it. To this day, it remains my all-time favorite in a long list of terrible client requests. FWIW, I'm sure there are those able to achieve this but it was beyond me.
@roszymek
Жыл бұрын
I was making an animation for 4 weeks and cielnt wanted me to completely change the design of a main character when I already made more than 2 minutes of this animation. In some scenes character was rigged but some were frame by frame. He thought it would be easy to do.
@vadeeme95
Жыл бұрын
Did u get extra money for that?
@roszymek
Жыл бұрын
I explained to him that it would take me at least a week and he said that I don't have to do it then. I liked the original design so I was ok with this outcome
@DoctorMGL
Жыл бұрын
- 3 months of animation work - client : " not to bad " !! that moment when you want to break the client neck
@paulglennhunter
Жыл бұрын
I've had the "Add music to the GIF" request before. Sadly no matter how many times I told the same person over however many projects we worked on together that GIFs are image files, they'd always come back requesting more music in the GIF. I also got this one a lot. "It needs to look more premium"
@jacoboswald5731
Жыл бұрын
"Can you add more story to this?" It was an interview... an unedited interview... like they requested
@munkyflux
Жыл бұрын
Haha I had someone say the person talks way too fast can we slow them down.... Yes we actually can but it's going to sound like dog shit...
@jacoboswald5731
Жыл бұрын
@@munkyflux That's hilarious
@SorinVladimir
Жыл бұрын
I'm a photographer. After the shoot was done and the photos were retouched and delivered to the client, the CEO (who was on set and "'directed'evry shot) said that ''the result is not what he wanted'' (he literaly aproved every shot on set after preview). It's good that the money was already payed other wise i would be royaly ef`d
@petruspomme
Жыл бұрын
Not a client feedback, but a funny broadcasting story… When I worked at TV channel in Brazil, they had a live program that consisted of a news anchor speaking over dramatic videos of police chases, accidents, etc - just normal stuff that happens in São Paulo, it was called Cidade Alerta “Alert City“. We had a television in the room at the animation department, and we noticed the accident they were playing over and over was actually CG. Our boss went to the studio to warn them that the accident wasn’t real. Their response was “Ok, but don’t tell anyone, the audience is pumping!”
@msbonsaihuman
Жыл бұрын
My colleague (who I get on with really well) often tells me to make this look "more marketing". She does it so often I kind of know what that means. She also told me to make a background "darker but lighter". I laughed.
@OliverAmberg
Жыл бұрын
Client: I heard that the color blue is slowing down the loading time of a website....
@edoardopasquini4036
Жыл бұрын
After editing to the beat for one week: "hum... I think we should change the music"
@remigiogonzalezardanaz5676
Жыл бұрын
classic
@stupidnotes
Жыл бұрын
1 year after I went independent, I worked with a client in Madrid to assist with the animations for a festival (roughly 30 different animations.) Got to animation 10 and received this feedback: Client: This is Bullshit! Me: Thanks for the feedback, can you please explain what part of this looks like bullshit and what you would like changed? Client: everything... Me: that will require me to bill you for a new animation. Does that align with your budget? Client: sure! 15K USD of upcharges later... Me: Hi I would like to be paid now. Client: Disappears and never replies... Me: well...this is bullshit.
@mariohyeah
Жыл бұрын
who was the client? i work in madrid...
@techiechar
Жыл бұрын
I'm laughing and also crying
@mvnyk3nn888
Жыл бұрын
Like your sweater🍗
@4chinny
Жыл бұрын
I had a frustrated client that kept saying "needs to be more opaque." By the third iteration, I realized he meant transparent.
@meeatingthings
Жыл бұрын
this one's on you bud
@4chinny
Жыл бұрын
@@meeatingthings How so?
@mentalmentalio
Жыл бұрын
Isn’t opaque transparent?
@DaftRebel
Жыл бұрын
A client once told me "I love the work you've done, the animation is outstanding, the idea is something I could have ever think of. But its blue and yellow, and I'm a Rive football team fan, you know those are the colours of Boca? (another Argentinian biggest teams)". I told him that I know Boca, I am a Boca fan, but that's not why I choose the colours, THEY WERE THE COLORS OF THE BRAND. Fortunatly I already had charged him the half of the job and never heard of him ever since LOL
@abba9265
Жыл бұрын
I admire the dedication to a team 😂
@DaftRebel
Жыл бұрын
@@abba9265 hahaha yeah yeah, he hates to use other teams colour everyehere but in the brand! -what a moron!
@lordihante408
Жыл бұрын
Hello Ben, this is really fun to watch. Its not really à feedback but more of a story. I had to show every variations (they were 20) of the new product for 2 seconds in an animated movie. You couldnt show more then one product at the same time. The movie, including intro and outro should absolutly not be longer then 30 seconds. After telling them that this would be diffcult, I got an email telling me they had a meeting to discuss "my" issue with the script. Thanks for all the tutoriels.
@pixelasm
Жыл бұрын
5:42 could you show me where I can find that "wow" effect? Asking for a client :D
@janarose8179
Жыл бұрын
We were designing a logo for a restaurant.. After many revisions and many months of work.. they sent us a PDF file of all types of logos.. from flat to something like a whole illustration... and they asked us to do a logo like them all 🤡🤡🤣🤣
@clownfromclowntown
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately not a job, but feedback from a professor on an painting series I was doing. The series was based around recreating biblical characters in a contemporary, anthropomorphic, pop art style (ex: Judas was a Pegasus). For my painting of Jesus, of course, I painted him as a lamb. My professor when she saw the WIP told me “nobody is going to know that’s Jesus. Why don’t you give him a beard?”. She wanted me to give. The lamb. A beard. I…I don’t even know how to unpack that
@leerobhud
Жыл бұрын
Working on a video shoot... Italian client said to me 'I don't speak Dutch or German; but is she speaking Dutch with a german accent". Instant face palm.
@BenMarriott
Жыл бұрын
Asking the tough questions!
@alex.g7317
Жыл бұрын
I can just imagine someone doing this to you on purpose just to fuck with you 😂 Like they’d give you the most batshit-insain commission and keep adding onto it every time you said you were done, by giving you more and more crazy criticisms, and then say they’d stop once their bank-account reaches zero, but then in the end only paying for the artwork in lollipops 😂
@TheTattorack
Жыл бұрын
Customer A: "Make it BIGGER." Said the customer about the nude pinup I was drawing, after I had already made the sizable breasts bigger 3 times. Customer B: He proceeds to give me a shit ton of references, tells me what pose the character should be in, and then lets me work. I give him WIPs, such as sketches, design, flat colours, basically every process I do I drop him a WIP. He barely comments on any of them so I think it's just fine. I show him the finished result and he is... disappointed. "I wanted you to make the character look like this..." he says, and shows me one of the many items he had given me in his reference dump, "... I thought it was obvious."
@ausmerzung
Жыл бұрын
...and thats why design work sucks. Good thing youre getting paid right? ...right?
@pedromendes8533
Жыл бұрын
Client : I want something very simple I gave him something simple and that was the feedback: Client: "I didn't like it, elaborate more, I think it's too simple"
@flxmerity
Жыл бұрын
One time I tried to apply as a lighting artist for this animation team that was owned by someone that tried to ask me if I could join before (I said no at the time cause I was too busy irl and he wasn't paying at the time) And when i sent him some example renders he was like: "Sorry, You need to get better"💀 Appearly he meant that i had to use Cycles instead of Eevee (My PC Can't render in cycles tho) But this one is even worse LOL So basically i was in a discord vc trying to learn lighting and how to make run cycles since i was stil a newbie at Blender & Animation I sent a preview of what i made cause i didn't know what to do at the time and one of the people in the vc said "The run cycle... It makes me want to die" & "Just quit"💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 And guess who said it? An grown man with an everything anime profile with a status saying "Playing OSU!" 💀I'm not joking btw.......
@Avrii
Жыл бұрын
When I was working in the esports industry we were told (multiple times) by client to "make it more esport". We were told this about graphics, music, text - basically everything. As if this is some kind of genre you can just click on :D
@mhmdd
Жыл бұрын
Guys, where can I download the "Wow factor" plug-in? 🙂
@siebrenbelet
Жыл бұрын
Once had a graphic design teacher review my assignment in front of the whole class and say; this is the perfect example ... on how to not do the assignment. And that was it, no further feedback. Dude just moved on (brutally) reviewing other assignments.
@wnazgul
Жыл бұрын
i once got the feedback to render some objects in a 3D scene green so he could key them out
@surplusvalues
Жыл бұрын
I was editing on a TV show for one of the mid-sized networks and their internal producer made sure to let our editing team know that: every frame greatness.
@theoriginalabimation
Жыл бұрын
I was once told a wave in an animation looked like a Nazi salute...
@BallotBoxer
Жыл бұрын
Client asked for clarification: "I don't know, you're the creative ones!"
@dolphonnn
Жыл бұрын
Great vidoe Ben!
@mickeyromeo
Жыл бұрын
clients don't know what they want or what looks good
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