Reply To: Any plan for a concept art “bootcamp” courses ?

[Ala Dhiabi]

@wesburke sorry for the late reply and thanks a lot for your response. 

Yes i did check those courses and i like them, however, what’s missing there is the “confidence element”, not sure how to correctly explain this, but basically is when you (student) know that  what you’re learning is going to take you from point-A to point-B, and for me that is critical for motivation, i believe that in our current time we are fortunate enough to have huge amount of free ressources online, and if someone is ready to put the effort, then making a collection of the best free tutorials/courses available would probably completely remove the needs of any premium material, specially for “mainstream” fields like Game dev, drawing, CG, and music, with that said, i can’t imagine myself getting rid of premium content, i have subscriptions here, Pluralsight, and frequently buy courses on Udemy, and there is two main reasons for that : 

1) Confidence in the instructor (based on other students reviews)

2) Time, that otherwise would be “wasted” lurking for free materials, even when the end result is worth it.

And that’s what am really looking for here, my main and professional skill is programming, my full time job is coding and designing mobile games, though designing was (and will always be) a trial-&-error cycle, programming was very straight forward when i first started it (16y.o, 24 now), and i really want Art courses to be like that, so far, CGC bootcamp series (specially the animation one) has been my favorite tutorials of all time (and i watch A LOT of tutorials lol), it’s those courses where the goals are very clear and the instructor is 100% confident in what he says, one of the most frustrating thing that i hate about tutorials, is when the instructor says “maybe do this… or maybe this would work…”, and these kind of phrases are frequently used in “Creative” tutorials (art & music). and i want the opposite of that, there shouldn’t be a “maybe” when teaching  fundamentals, cause as much as it sounds “normal” to an expert, it is really a scary thing to say to a beginner.

Imagine  teaching someone how to drive for the 1st time and telling him :

“maybe hit the breaks when you’re about to turn” 

So that’s what i don’t want to see in tutorials, and like i said, so far the animation bootcamp is one of the best tutorials i watched, so maybe that should be a reference ?

Thanks! and sorry again for the reply, the community notification got buried within all the other “daily notification” (maybe you guys should separate that :p ?) 

have a good day!