Clients from HELL!!!
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- Horp0
Hahaha, there's some great stuff there.
I once did the artwork for a single that was only being put out on CD. This was for a major label not a pokey little set up. The band decided they wanted photographs of their moms on the back cover. I asked them to send me photos that were approved for use. I got tiny little 20k jpegs cropped out of family snaps done in the 80's on terrible cameras.
I laid out the back as best I could and sent it to the band for comments. The band's product manager at the record label called up and said the band were not happy and I had to make the pictures bigger. I explained that most of the files were only 20k squares of blurry crap but she said "Just make them bigger".
That was bad enough, but I made them bigger and sent it back.
"Make them bigger still, and draw in some of the missing detail in photoshop so they look like the actual people" I hadn't ever seen the actual people so that was hard, but I did what I could.
This went on and on. Always I had to make them bigger until in the end these five blurry women's faces occupied every single micron of the back cover and were all cut out horribly so that they were as big as possible.
I then got a call telling me they had to be "at least 200% bigger than the last visual".
I asked how, considering that a CD single is a fixed size.
"I'M NOT THE DESIGNER HERE" she shouted down the phone "IF I HAVE TO COME THERE AND DO IT FOR YOU I'M NOT GOING TO PAY YOU FOR IT".
So I told her that I would gladly waive my fee if she could just draw me some crude outlines on the template I attached, showing me where to put each mom and exactly how big.
I then got a sheepish email asking me to proceed without the moms on the back. The thing that PISSES me off about this is that even though its the people being dumb, they never quite realise it and remember the experience as though you were obstructive and difficult to work with.
The same band also sacked me without telling me and commissioned someone else to do their album artwork because they expected a full colour photographic sleeve art and I had "just drawn a really horrible stick man in black and white surrounded by some scribbles and little signs everywhere saying 'trees', 'shrubs', 'skyscrapers' THIS IS NOT WHAT WE WANTED AT ALL"... that was my rough doodle to show them the composition for approval.
Fortunately the person they hired to replace me managed to explain that to them and sent them back to me. Fucking morans.
- Oh fuck that's long. Sorry, I got caught up in old grievances that I should let go of.Horp
- lol 'morans'Stugoo
- wow dude you musta been in fecking tears!!!Projectile
- lol @ rough doodle to show them the composition for approval.rkrd
- i feel your pain, man.geoman2k
- I once made an album cover for a radio station comp while in college. lost my artwork TWICE and then used the doodle/rough sketch as the final album artworktheredmasque
- doodle / rough sketch as final artwork because too sheepish to tell me they lost the cover againtheredmasque
- So imagine my surprise when I saw the final product. loltheredmasque
- Horp's story is hilarious / frightening though!theredmasque