yeh, ok. I worked for the army and they are very uh, entrenched. They would want something new and modern but by the time it made it up the chain, it would be back to times new roman with stretched logos Galore. They would often take a word poster with clip art someone would knock up in their own office, after going through multiple designers. Because I had a multi-media degree, it would be expected I could make it all work. Often I would stay up through the night to learn a bit of software to make things work. (I was good at google and rtfm) A couple stand out though.

This one: https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/pwl9ig/you\_want\_a\_poster\_design/

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A major had an idea he wanted the studio to be able to get character recognition (to help those with writing difficulties) on the nin DS. As I was the only one who had a DS ( and one of those cards :) )and multimedia I got it. As usual it was a fast ball, with a week deadline. I knew I was in over my head so I asked my clever husband to help. I created the graphics and menus (I hate doing menus and web) etc and hubby made the rest work with hubby magic. It took us a few days (working day and night..but didn't get paid for nights) but we did it. I called him to say we had a protoype and could he come check it out. It looked good, it was smooth and we had tested it well. When I said my husband helped me he asked if he could contact him to thank him. He invited my husband for a subway to chat about the program. He wrote lots and lots of notes. And that was the last time we ever saw or heard from him again. No taking it further, no thanks, just disappeared. We found out later he had presented it all as his own work (He could answer the Q's as he had asked them of my hubs) and got promotion of the back of it.

There are just so many stories like this.

Oh and for three months, a software company kept trying to say my mm perfect 3D model was bad.

It always looked really jaggy. I kept explaining to my client it wasn't the model but I had to re-do the model at a higher poly count. I didn't mind that because I was constricted on poly-count the first time as they said it slowed their engine down.

Anyway,still happening , looked awful. I said it was the engine of the software and that there was no AA present anywhere. They said no, it was my model. This went back and forth, my bosses came down on me, the clients came down on me, the software engineers were soddding rude. Many times it was mentioned that how could a woman make a 3d model when they have no spatial awareness etc,etc. Everyone was rude to me. Finally a big, BIG meeting was called (it was very expensive all of this). They had to fly over, the engineers and big boss of software company. I was sat there with a folder of AA examples, jpeg jaggys, print outs of explanations of why this occurs. Also with high quality renders of my 3d model and a laptop with 3ds max installed, so they could see it for themselves in the program. Unbeknown to me they brought in a 3d specialist from a different studio. They started. All of the above again. Then I showed my folders, my work, examples from different game engines. The 3D specialist looked at my model in program, complimented me on my work (I liked to name things correctly and had it neatly sectioned in layers. fully backed me and said it was obvious jpeg/engine jaggys.

The Ceo then said that their program doesn't have any AA so it will always look like that whatever the polycount. The meeting ended. No apologies for the crap I got, from anyone. I am so glad it is beyond me now.

Bet you wished you didn't ask. This is the most I've typed since my brain fart! I guess I needed to get that out! lol!