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

[Jake Korosi]

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.  

This sounds first-rate to me, if it can be done while still leaving you guys headroom for continuing to make your awesome courses and other lessons – those are the bread and butter of CGC after all!  But I really enjoyed working on the DOG and I’d love to do another project when it’s finished.  

One unfortunate aspect of the DOG project is that it did seem to lock out some of the more beginner-level and even some intermediate-level members.  I’m pretty sure you mentioned at the beginning when announcing the project that it was going to be for more-advanced members; but that didn’t stop some less-advanced users from trying, and it was unfun to watch them struggle and end up going silent.  It seems to me though that it would be a serious challenge trying to find a project as complex as the DOG in which beginners can meaningfully participate.  Perhaps along with the super-complex stuff, it would be good to come up with some simpler projects as well for newer artists.  Or the “live classes” you guys have been doing can fill this need, as many of those seemed to fill it quite well so far. 

Speaking of courses though – yeah I am SERIOUSLY looking forward to the one you’re working on now, @theluthier.  If I have to steal a new computer, I am going to be ready when that thing drops!