Reply To: COLLAB2021 – HQ – Stylized Fantasy Environment

📢 Announcement #1: Collab2021 has officially begun!

I. am. excited! March was quite a build-up of anticipation and even saw substantial work done by the rogue TSFHI initiative. Today marks the official start of the project and I want to welcome everyone who registered!

At 130+ registrants I’m floored by the enthusiasm for this collaboration! NOTE: I will be leaving registration open for the rest of today since I said “sign up by April 5th”. 

More contributors means bigger, higher quality results are possible / likely. It also increases the potential for confusion and team members getting lost about what exactly they should be doing. Tomorrow’s stream will go over all the details of the project in-depth but here’s some notes for what you can be doing today:

• Look over the Asset List. I’ve divided the concept art into categories and individual assets via google spreadsheet. Look over this list to get a feel for the categories / organization of the assets. Based on the registration data about 50% expressed interest in specific assets while the other 50% said “not sure” or “anywhere I’m needed”. This should work out well for an even spread among asset assignments.

  Today I encourage you to look over the list and consider which category and/or specific asset you want to tackle. NOTE: The stars beside each asset name denotes difficulty:

  • * = beginner/easy,
  • ** = medium/intermediate
  • *** = intermediate-to-advanced/difficult/involved
• Begin watching the recommended courses. Reminder that recommended courses are listed for each week outlined at the top of this thread. If you haven’t seen the recommended courses, please begin watching them as they will prepare you to commence working on your assets.
• Practice. Since we’re not choosing / assigning assets officially until the stream tomorrow, you can start practicing your asset creation skills today. Especially if you’ve already watched the recommended courses or have already developed those skills prior to this collab. This practice can be a course topic (treasure chest, sapling tree, etc), as specific relevant skill like sculpting or texture painting OR something from the asset list.

  Just be aware that after we discuss the asset list during the stream tomorrow you may want to do something else (which is fine) or the discussion reveals info that could alter the way you’ve built your asset. In other words, don’t get too attached to your practice material.

• Sign up for a Google account. Remember that we’re utilizing Google Drive to sync all of our project files together. You will need a Google account access the project files. This can be a burner account that you only use for this project.

  Once you have your google account, please email this message from your Gmail to kent@cgcookie.com:

  Subject: I’ve drunk the Google Koolaid
  Message: [CGC username] reporting for duty. I’m ready to access the project files and receive commenter access to Collab google docs!

That’s all for today! Again, MUCH MORE will be discussed during the stream tomorrow.