To catch a cheating student!
polycounter lvl 14
Hey guys, think of this as "To Catch a Predator" 
I was recently emailed by one of my old instructors from school about a student that has been turning in work from other people / tutorials / free shiz and claiming it as their own in multiple classes.
Does anyone recognize these images from any tutorial DVD or website? I was informed it may have something to do with 3DS Max Lighting, and it may have been made within the past 5 years or so.
Here are the images:
Happy hunting!
I was recently emailed by one of my old instructors from school about a student that has been turning in work from other people / tutorials / free shiz and claiming it as their own in multiple classes.
Does anyone recognize these images from any tutorial DVD or website? I was informed it may have something to do with 3DS Max Lighting, and it may have been made within the past 5 years or so.
Here are the images:
Happy hunting!
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And even doing it once would make me not want to hire that person.
that was my point, word of this can spread pretty fast in a industry like 3d art, so he already screwed, if the student wants to try and get in.
If it really is someone else's work... BURN HIM. But i find it a bit odd that there isn't real proof yet and he's already being found guilty.
also let the student turn in the scene, if it's stolen they're usually stupid enough to leave file properties in there
Not exactly hard to pass though is it :poly124: Otherwise my year would only have about half the people in it that it does.
This is at a more fundamental level than that. Students cheating and showing it off to other students in the same class is disrespectful on many accounts, and it encourages other students on the edge of failure to cheat.
So, if no one knows where it's from, then oh wells.
If they are from tutorials it should be easy to prove this one way or another. Just not sure why your instructor would ask you for help if he knew for sure that the student was cheating, so perhaps it needs rephrasing until that is the case.
Innocent before proven guilty and all that?
A wireframe render will serve people much better, since many companies tend to model in a deformity that can be used to tag back to that company.
Unless you find out exactly where they got the material from it's pretty hard to bring down the hammer. We've had students before straight up rip game models or buy them from turbosquid and turn them in. So when we cross reference and the models line up down to UV placement it's pretty much GG from there on.
To be honest, it doesn't look that great, reminds me of some of the stuff I did 3 months in on my first year at 3d college denmark.. Not really hard to do, simple GI setup with next to no special material properties. This is something most students can within 3-4 months of learning 3d tbh
Zpanzer: Agreed, if you are going to cheat, cheat good in this case it seams he got the wrong end of the deal, that render is not going to impress anyone(I hope).
Apparently he used one direct light with GI, hence the complete lack of shadows and depth in other places than where the direct light hits.
Thing is, I don't even think this is cheating.. He might have followed a tutorial that introduced him into GI and just used the techniques learned there on this own scene... I know that's what I did back when I was learning the render software.
http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=2691
Not sure how I feel about this thread. Imagine if the student finds out his/her work ended up on the internet trough the teacher who accuses him of cheating/plagiarism. This is a serious matter for everyone involved and I see this as a serious breach of student-teacher confidentiality which could have dire consequences for the teacher if the school find out. Did the instructor tell you that it was ok to post these images?
And yea i see this whole thing as more of a shitty teacher thing than a shitty student thing. if you dont have some kind of proof dont go on public art forums trying to slander someone.
the right thing todo, if the student is already known of stealing is inform the autor of the orgiginal and provide something like a bill the artist can send the student under penalty of lecal action or stuff like that
Would be hard for someone to sit down and go over the scene with the student and see if he can talk the talk?
It's not like those shots are all that great, they are right where I would expect someone in his position to be. It's not like modern furniture in a small apartment hasn't been done before. Have you seen CGSociety that's 99% of what gets posted, that's probably why it looks familiar...
I have to agree with Vik, it seems a bit dicey to be posting this stuff in a public place, unless of course you have a vested interest in selling pitch forks and torches... heh