Reply To: Backhoe Contribution – adrian2301 – Chassis/Stabilizer/Fenders and the Engine. And the hydraulics for the swing frame.

[Kent Trammell]

@adrian2301 I think I’m picking up what you’re throwing down. It sounds like a pipe-dream I have about what the backhoe project represents as a learning format: Basically real-world production experience as a team.

 bit like the backhoe collaboration, but bigger, much bigger.

Umm…I don’t know about you but this backhoe project has been pretty huge in my book 😅 Huge in the sense of manhours but not so huge in terms of project scope. But lets say every year CGC hosts a collaborative project (or twice a year depending on scope). The goal is always the same: Realworld collaboration to accomplish a big project together. Sometimes the focus is a super complex model, like the backhoe, the next one is a 5-minute stylized cartoony animation, then its a playable video game production…on an on it goes. 

Contributors get realworld experience, something really cool to show for it in the end (usable on a demo reel), and CGC also benefits from the cool thing we create (promotion, our own creative itches scratched). If a bunch of contributors committed we could even separate into teams with one led by me, one by Lampel, one by Wayne. Introduce some friendly competition perhaps. Or as you say, each team focuses on a certain aspect of the production like pipeline departments. The beauty is the details of each collaboration could be flexible an interesting.

Internally we’ve always emphasized a desire to foster passion projects. A few times we’ve started them with the idea to generate tutorials but most of them fizzle out due to us being such a small team. The latest example is an FPS project from a few years ago. I kinda see this collaborative concpet with members being an evolution of that idea.

You could all even ask for a pay rise.

I don’t quite understand what you mean here..unless you mean this “CGC Online Studio” is a for-hire professional studio of sorts, doing paid work. That’s not what I mean but rather the collaborations would be a value-add to the membership.