Calling for the November ALL STARS!!!

Chip Valecek

Sorry I will not be able to do the slide show for these. I had it all set on Friday and then my work got hacked and it spread like wild fire through the network. As of right now I have lost everything I ever have done since my external hard drive was also connected to my computer 🥺 and when I say everything, I mean everything including my backups.

LauraA

@Chip-Valecek Oh noooooo!!!!! I'm so sorry!

Coley

@Chip-Valecek oh dear. I feel for you!

burvantill

@Chip-Valecek
Oh my gosh!!! That’s horrible. Nevermind the slide show. That’s nothing compared to losing your artwork.

xin li

@Chip-Valecek Oh. No. So sorry to hear that. Never mind the slide. Stay strong. It is really a pain to loss your artwork.

Coreyartus

Oh, Chip. That's terrible. I'm so sorry.

NessIllustration

@Chip-Valecek I'm so sorry Chip This is devastating. I'm sure it will take a long time to mourn, but please also remember they haven't taken your abilities, your talent, your passion and all the work you will create next.

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Chip-Valecek oh no! i'm so sorry! how did it happen?

Coreyartus

Can you go back and download smaller sizes of the imagery that you've posted here on the forums, perhaps? It's not gone. That's at least a small good thing... ?

frankiiij

@miranda-hoover spectacular!

James Toogood

@Chip-Valecek Thats terrible, you must be so annoyed. sorry to hear that.

K.Flagg

@Chip-Valecek oh my gosh that is terrible! So sorry this happened to you. Maybe treat 2021 like a new portfolio building year. I hope you find a way to salvage some things.

chrisaakins

@Chip-Valecek ahhhhh! So sorry for your loss! Nothing gets my goat like technology gone wrong. But for someone to sabotage you by hacking...that's just terrible!

LisaF

@Chip-Valecek Oh no!!! So sorry to hear that Chip!!

Chip Valecek

@Nyrryl-Cadiz we are not sure yet. Bad news was it infected my adobe cloud files so when I went on my personal machine adobe pulled the files down and messed up my personal machine. Its just a hot mess. @Coreyartus lucky for google drive I always save a large and small version of my art. I just don't have the PSDs anymore or as of right now. My company is looking into a way to get the files back.

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Chip-Valecek i’m so sorry, Chip. There’s been a lot of artists’ account hacking recently. There was this artist Julia Mann who got her ig account hacked. Her old account is now being run by an East european man selling iphones. Very frustrating. This makes me want to make more back-up of my files.

Chip Valecek

@Nyrryl-Cadiz This was an attack on the company I work for and it ran through the network. I work pretty much day and night so I usually do not disconnect from work network. I also left my SD card which has all of my PSD art files on it in that computer and my external hard drive I use to store all my photo/movies and website stuff. When it hit my computer through the network, it hit all of those as well. But it also went through my google drive, one drive, dropbox, and creative cloud. It has been a mess and I am still waiting to find out if they guys at work will be able to recover and decrypt all the files. I think my new years resolution will be to do more traditional art.

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Chip-Valecek does your team have any clue who it might be? Anybody holding a grudge against your company maybe?

jdubz

@Chip-Valecek I'm not sure about Google Drive and One Drive, but Dropbox specifically has version control - you should be able to revert the entire library to anything uploaded or synced within the last 30 days. Did you check the file histories?

LisaF

Hi all! The Critique Arena All Stars is ON! It'll be this Thursday, Dec 17 at 2 pm MST. It's our last live event of the year, so be sure to join in!

If you haven't heard about it yet, we are doing a live critique session of all the previous winners of 2020. Then we'll vote for the winner of 2020! It'll be fun!

Event links will be emailed in the next day or two. See you then!