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I don't know that this is *exactly* sucky as such, since the guy doesn't make this sort of thing himself and obviously just hasn't thought it through enough to realize his request is impossible, but it still irritated me.
I'm making a stuffed animal. When I make a costume I build a framework that goes around the wearer's head, and flesh it out with foam, etc. and so I can show some progress shots before it's finished that give at least some sort of idea what it might look like.
When making a stuffed animal, on the other hand, I start with a pattern that, to anybody not REALLY good at folding 2-d shapes into 3-d ones in their head, just looks like a collection of weird random stuff. My plush patterns are not just silhouettes of the thing like a lot of beginners use, they're funky items and don't resemble anything at all like the finished product. The pattern produces a bunch of fabric pieces, also not resembling what you're going to get. These are sewn together into a floppy blob that sort of vaguely looks a little bit like the finished product, but is flat and wrinkly and weird. Then I stuff it and it's DONE and now it looks like what it is.
So this guy ordering the stuffed animal has asked me for progress shots, because he's concerned with how the facial features will look. THERE ARE NO PROGRESS SHOTS I COULD TAKE THAT WILL SHOW THIS. The facial features won't look like a face at all until it's 100% DONE. He wants something that is absolutely impossible!
And here's where it really ticks me off. The plush he's ordered is part of a set. He's SEEN me make three others in the set. Using the same pattern. With the exact same faces. WTF!!!!! What the everliving fuck, seriously! Why do you need progress shots to show you how it will look when it's going to look EXACTLY like what I've already made? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
I told him this, in much more polite terms, but it still just aggravates me. I am having a horrible, horrible, horrible week and I don't need to deal with this kind of idiocy on top of everything else.
I'm making a stuffed animal. When I make a costume I build a framework that goes around the wearer's head, and flesh it out with foam, etc. and so I can show some progress shots before it's finished that give at least some sort of idea what it might look like.
When making a stuffed animal, on the other hand, I start with a pattern that, to anybody not REALLY good at folding 2-d shapes into 3-d ones in their head, just looks like a collection of weird random stuff. My plush patterns are not just silhouettes of the thing like a lot of beginners use, they're funky items and don't resemble anything at all like the finished product. The pattern produces a bunch of fabric pieces, also not resembling what you're going to get. These are sewn together into a floppy blob that sort of vaguely looks a little bit like the finished product, but is flat and wrinkly and weird. Then I stuff it and it's DONE and now it looks like what it is.
So this guy ordering the stuffed animal has asked me for progress shots, because he's concerned with how the facial features will look. THERE ARE NO PROGRESS SHOTS I COULD TAKE THAT WILL SHOW THIS. The facial features won't look like a face at all until it's 100% DONE. He wants something that is absolutely impossible!
And here's where it really ticks me off. The plush he's ordered is part of a set. He's SEEN me make three others in the set. Using the same pattern. With the exact same faces. WTF!!!!! What the everliving fuck, seriously! Why do you need progress shots to show you how it will look when it's going to look EXACTLY like what I've already made? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
I told him this, in much more polite terms, but it still just aggravates me. I am having a horrible, horrible, horrible week and I don't need to deal with this kind of idiocy on top of everything else.
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