Salary?

Jesper Kondrup
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Re: Salary?

Unread post by Jesper Kondrup » 31 Dec 2014, 12:38

Sorry for continuing the hijacking but I had to share this horror example.
In a former company where I worked we 'tried' outsourcing our modelling work to some guys in India.
Here's an image of the quality we received: http://www.coindrop.dk/spiludvikling/so ... urcing.jpg

Left corner: What we received.
Right corner: Reference image.
Lower middle: My corrections (I spend 2 minutes editing the proportions of the 3d model).

We later found very competent people in Macedonia :)

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Re: Salary?

Unread post by zelsphere » 01 Jan 2015, 05:20

Then I'll also butt in!
Believe it or not but it can also happen in the other end of the scale, having someone believe his work is too good for a project...
Once we hired one of the ship designers from the Gundam series as an concept artist, then all of a sudden he wouldn't allow us to use his concept's because what might had been a concept for a PS4 game had we scalled down to a tablet game...
By that point I had already made a couple of spaceships which we now aren't allowed to use commercially....
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Re: Salary?

Unread post by zelsphere » 01 Jan 2015, 05:39

Jesper Kondrup wrote:Sorry for continuing the hijacking but I had to share this horror example.
In a former company where I worked we 'tried' outsourcing our modelling work to some guys in India.
Here's an image of the quality we received: http://www.coindrop.dk/spiludvikling/so ... urcing.jpg

Left corner: What we received.
Right corner: Reference image.
Lower middle: My corrections (I spend 2 minutes editing the proportions of the 3d model).

We later found very competent people in Macedonia :)
Hmm you didn't check any prior work from this person/company before you decided to hire him??
also to be fair how much did you pay for that kind of work? In most cases you get the level of quality you paid for ;)
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Jesper Kondrup
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Re: Salary?

Unread post by Jesper Kondrup » 01 Jan 2015, 12:06

zelsphere - I don't know any details regarding prior work or salary, I was just to send them some references so we could make a 'test-case'.
As I recall we went through one more iteration and then stopped working with them.

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Re: Salary?

Unread post by vonknut » 01 Jan 2015, 12:46

-wow, thats ugly :)
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