Reply To: Growing Dissatisfaction with CGCookie

@smurfmier1985 Thank you for clarifying. So it seems like a lot of people have more or less given up on the exercises, and it’s basically just something to entertain newcomers. This goes to show that the whole idea of exercise submission and grading needs to be re-thought. Unless it was just meant to be a fun thing, then I guess it doesn’t really matter. For me personally, I just help out grade exercises I have completed myself, or exercises I feel comfortable with enough to say that I can tell, based on the rules of the exercise, whether they passed or not.

Doing your own project is always going to be the best way to learn. And submitting something for the Live Critique Stream sounds like good advice, although personally I neither have the skill nor the confidence for that. And then the fact that I can’t really participate in the live streams anymore. (Because I have to use VPN to access youtube from my current location, and it hasn’t been working smoothly for a long time now. Only works sorta OK on my phone, but then the image resolution defaults to 144p and can’t be changed it seemed). Yes, I realize I can watch it later.

Classes sounds great and fun…but it’s during my busiest time of the year and I don’t have the energy or the time to do all the work each week. But I’ll probably watch them later at a time when I am less busy, and maybe do the homework as well.

So, probably CGC should put even more focus on Live Critique, Classes and also on the Competitions in the future, since it gives more value to those members that really wants to learn. Because continuing doing things that even the members doesn’t even find that useful, might just reflect badly on CGC in the 3d community. Anyways, this will be my final post on the matter…