Turbosquid has posted a hilarious video in which their customer support staff talks about some of the items customers have ordered, thinking they were real. Watch it on YouTube.
The video is a good reminder of how much of a specialization CG is, and how the real and the virtual have mixed in the past decades. Think for a moment how difficult it’d be to try to explain what a renderer materials library is to someone who lived 100 years ago.
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That’s amazing.
Brilliant,
Man that’s funny, scary and sad all at the same time. I wonder what these people think the wire frame images are. Not to mention all the copy on the page talking about file formats, polys and so on…
This really underlines why craigslist has that fraud warning page for the car section. People only see what they want to see. There’s a PHD thesis in this somewhere.
TS. I think you really need to give more background on what a 3d model is. This would open the joke up to a wider audience.
THIS IS WHY I COME TO MU EVERYDAY!
The part about the guy ordering a tank is priceless. We’re now considering setting up a stock models shop at MU just to get those messages. 🙂
@Othoap: Thanks for the good words! If you happen to come across the PhD thesis you mention pls post the info. I’d be interested in reading it.
Greetings from TurboSquid! Thanks for the comments. The fact that this happens really is amazing. You should hear the Support calls–we record some of them and use them for training. The ability to explain to an 80-year-old man why you cannot ship three toilet plungers to him is a learned skill.
@othoap: I hear ya. We’ve had such a strong response to the video that we’re considering a follow-up to include more in-depth stories. The video only scratches the surface of what our Support guys go through!
I noticed last time i purchased a model from the3dstudio.com, there was a large bold text that by continuing, you hereby acknowledge that its not a real product that you are buying
In a wierd way, this video makes me proud to be a seller in turbosquid… getting the “ordinary folk”, fooled… after all, special effects that go unnoticed are succesful…same goes for 3d objects that pass for real ones.
ROFL that made my day ^_^
Ehehe 🙂 That was fun! 😀