Bad client stories anyone?
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In the first meeting on a Tuesday afternoon...
Record label exec: Good news is: the band really love this illustration.
The band: yeah, we just totally love this illustration, its like, *awesome*.
Record label exec: Bad news is, scheduling means production deadline is Friday. Can we go with this visual? It looks great. Are you okay with that?
Band: Oh yeah, we're like TOTALLY ok with that. It looks really *AWESOME*, we *TODALLY LOVE IT*.
Me: Well, give me a couple of hours to tidy it up and we're good to go with this piece. I did it as a finished artwork anyway.
Everyone: Great!
Meeting ends, band and label get back in chauffered car. I sit at my desk, phone rings three minutes later, I pick up, its the record label exec in the car with the band.
"The band aren't happy about using the artwork. They want the following changes made...
Replace illustration of man with a studio photograph of a male model dressed as Pan with the band logo on his chest and maybe wearing some gold earrings of the logo too. He should have real goats legs photographed from a real goat.
Replace illustration of woman with a photograph of a woman dresseds as the robot out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, holding a silver tray with a tall glass vase and a ruby red flower in it.
Remove typography from the arch overhead and replace with fairy lights.
Make the background an underwater palace scene, like the Disney castle but underwater with fish swimming in and out.
Add cherubs flying past in the foreground and swimming in the background.
We do need it done for Friday as we agreed, but the band fly back home on Thursday morning so they need to sign it off Wednesday afternoon, lunchtime-ish as they want to go shopping".
It got progressively more hostile from there onwards. This was the first meeting.
- I forget the name of the band though. "Cunt Sisters" or something ...Horp