Unfortunately this thread is not to share a new piece, but to talk about a very serious situation I'm involved in nowadays. My name is Luis Nieves and for those of you who haven't talk to me before, I am a CG Artist living and working in california. Here you can find my resume if you want to know my location or communicate with me in person: www.lendesign.com/FordGT40 What you are about to read went faraway from the regular acceptable behavior in a forum and it could be used in a legal investigation if required. Something that happened here is now attempting against my good name, image and development as an artist. So I'm going to beg you to read the whole thread before you post a thing. Please keep your language as appropriate as you can and learn something about regulations and laws applicable to the bad use of the internet. http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm
Some weeks ago I got an e-mail inviting to check out the new SMCARS.net which looks way better I have to say. As I expressed to the admin, this is like Pepsi and Coke now (smcars and cg-cars). A little bit of competition is always healthy. I was sneaking around enjoying the new template when a couple of front page threads called my attention. It was Raduteo's Mercedes Benz, and Bentley Continental, both front page at the same time wow! And the Exidge's Novitec F430. Beautiful cars, very clean and professional work, you all are familiar with.
Smcars had a a new look, lots of movement and computer cars generated scene was under a new spotlight. All good fun!
But there was this bittersweet feeling bugging me, Suddenly, for no reason almost a 50 % of the regular users of cg-cars stopped posting, creating the atmosphere of we are not users in there anymore. Not my business though, something might be wrong at cg-cars and I don't know yet I thought.
Then I made a link between the front page artists at Smcars and the missing people at Cg-cars and I said to my self, some kind of recruitment is going on here! Still not my business though.
What I took personally was the kind of advertising the new admin of Smcars was giving to Raduteo's threads based in pure speculation. Allow me to explain my self here:
Catchy phrases like, “The great use of Zbrush”, or “Once more Raduteo and his amazing work using maya and Zbrush” were too cheese and inaccurate for me to swallow. The user who is a very talented artist in my opinion, provided a bunch of screenshots of an interior impossible to achieve in Zbrush, software that is still developing hard surface brushes to sculpt. http://www.smcars.net/forums/attachm...2-interior.jpg
Maybe he made some logos and textures here and there, but never the whole interior like his image is trying to sell. I can still live with that, and please raduteo, feel free to express your opinion in here as many times as you like. I am a zbrush user, it would be my pleasure to properly talk about what you have and haven't done using zbrush.
Here is when the situation turned complicated: Some months ago when I was intensively cheering up Exidge for his Ferrari someone dropped me a line telling me something like this: That is not Exidge's model! Some one else is making it for him. He is posting it as his own and giving him self front pages at cg-cars.
What a bomb! I didn't believe the gossip at first, but then later on, from a different source I got the same comment. What did I do? I talked to Exidge personally expressing my disappointment using the Private Message system. He deny the very serious accusations which made me happy at the time. I happen to love his work, or what he post as his at least. Since then I've been watching his posts with more attention being a a little skeptical to be honest.
Now here is when I make a couple of human mistakes, I got hooked with raduteo from here: http://cg-cars.com/showthread.ph...hlight=raduteo where he makes this comment: 2D artist learning Maya, first model, first car, learning as I go. Hi-poly McMerc 722. I don't know the rest of you but I got deeply offended by someone trying to sell this as a first car! That made me think hum! This could be Exidge or Sesim using an alter ego. I mean is just me? or this model seams extremely and oddly close to this one here: http://cg-cars.com/attachment.ph...4&d=1296869940 made by orb and shared with a couple of users of cg-cars back in the day.
1st mistake: I focused my attention on this user Raduteo, who is a super human in my opinion. Making this almost flawless model, his first car and renders... Of course I'm being sarcastic, I totally thought this was a practical joke leaded by Exidge, I actually expressed that here: http://cg-cars.com/showthread.ph...hlight=raduteo post #65 and #73.
Anyway, The whole thing was very hot and it explode when Exidge turned the Bentley, his own thread or Raduteo's, just god knows... in to a war zone. Some of you probably have read the whole thing before the posts were removed.
Nobody was happy with the issue, even when I got this private messages from the user Raduteo http://www.lendesign.com/smcars/issue_No1.psd (please download the psd file, it has several layers) it was still normal for a forum discussion, those posts were removed from the thread later on as well.
Here is when this turns unacceptable: I go to Exidge in private as usual and we have a conversation on what I think is good and wrong about raduteo being front page, him being the new admin of smcars, what are his real intentions helping out the forum, etc... You can download all of it from here: http://www.lendesign.com/smcars/issue_No2.psd (please download the psd file, it has several layers) You will find a couple of censored lines for this reason: I have a confidentiality contract with a prestigious company here in california, I'm helping them out with some development I can't mention... Please pay attention to the next:
2nd mistake: This person: http://www.exidge.net/DDResume.pdf and I were having a discussion on the Smcars forum as I mentioned above, using the PRIVATE MESSAGES SYSTEM of the website, I made the serious mistake of talk to him what is censored in the messages, I want to repeat this for you gentlemen... We were using private communication. Private information he used to make a lot of negative noise in the company I mentioned to him. This is not about cg-cars or Smcars anymore, this is not about what is funny or not either. This is about someone trying to harm my prestige, my work and my name, a name that is costing me a kidney to build. I'm not trying to buy your sympathy gentlemen, but you all know how much hard work is required to get a position in the field.
Of course after the noise he made, someone at the company I'm working for, contacted me and in a very serious tone asked me why I'm talking about something I shouldn't be talking about. I have a confidentiality contract here! If something goes bad with this company, or they don't ask me to keep working for them in the future, I'll be forced to establish a legal action. I hope you all get to understand the nature of an issue like this, and learn that this kind of action can be punished by the law, inside and outside of the United States of America. I also hope this thread clear things out on who is who and what kind of people are we surrounded by.
I wanted to express my concerns to the forum in a public manner, so you can have real information directly from the source, in a situation that is out of control and can hurt me bad. I hope Dimitri Dillmann (Exidge) honor us all explaining the nature of his actions, and why is he causing this much trouble to me, just because he couldn't handle a forum's argument.
Hope this lier will be clearing everything, cos hurting someone's name for such forum talk is really bad. We are talking about life, how to get by, in such a hard business. I hope u'll get out of this in the best way, and in my opinion u will always have ur capabilities, so u cannot get fired for this. Keep up!
P.S. : agree with u about everything concerning Raduteo (aka Dillman) (or what else), i think he was just here to make himself great, starting from his reaction when u guys moved his thread to advanced ( he got angry, instead of beeing pleased for his first model -.- )
I think most people here should go and read the thread in SMCars here: http://www.smcars.net/forums/feedbac...es-speaks.html as you are only getting 1 side of the story.
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I see why raduteo's merc was such a sensitive subject now, I'm not sure how and why all this started, and I still don't really get what this is all about, but it seems there is some serious pie throwing going on. I wish you all the best and, hopefully, we'll see a new project from you soon. Get this solved, I admire your both's work!
Last edited by mynameisoscarjo; 09-12-2011 at 12:56 PM.
Hmm very strange and unfortunately things are going on here. But honestly Luis i don't really get teh straight points because of the big story? So u think Exidge and Raduteo are the same person, who show Orb's work. And they recruite people from cg-cars for smcars only ? I don't really get it.
I hope this get sorted out asap as it hurst the community. Good luck to all
I sincerely hope this topic wont seriously hurt anybody (whatever "side") further than losing some online-reputation (which is.. nice, but hot air).
Feels bad to "waste" my first post here on this one, but... ye.
It was already pointed out that ORB's SLR (NURBS model) and raduteos SLR (poly model) are not the same thing. Checking out the WIPs makes it quite obvious - NURBS and polys. 'Nuff said.
Hopefully this "cgi-war" can be sorted out in private and in peace. This isn't Jersey Shore, maybe go somewhere else for unnecessary drama! ^^ Or, if in fact sh*t is that serious - get a lawyer. Online discussion feels rather pointless, wont help anybody. Evitable flamewars incoming.
Just my 2 cents...
Last edited by blake_spector; 09-12-2011 at 04:41 PM.
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