Reply To: [ENDED] BC1-1908 – August 2019 Class Homepage – Get Started Building Stuff with Blender 2.8

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier 

Sorry to bring this back Kent, but I thought of a little idea to consider for a future course and I might as well leave it here, perhaps for when you’re feeling a bit more ambitious.

The end of every homework results in lots of models done by people, why not put those to good use and kinda crowdsource a 15 second simple Eevee short with all the assets we accumulate? a small production two month long course class maybe?

The end result doesn’t have to be a Blur cinematic, it’s just a quick idea, we could pre-approve a concept, say a pirate cave. Week one, students get to model different types of treasure chests, each thing we do turn out different anyways so we have variation right there… other week we can texture, then another week students get to model a variety of rocks, other week plants, etc, etc. whatever assets the theme needs… like you did in the Melvin surfer island. You built your assets and arranged a scene around them. 

So is like a regular class course, it’s not much different than what we do now, the difference is that is based on a theme and we would be working towards a bigger end goal. Again, it doesn’t have to be next-gen level graphics, it would turn out as good as the models we produce so maybe it is an incentive for everyone to go the extra mile.

Each student has a responsibility in order to accomplish the short video and their homework can be part of a whole instead of an individual achievement.

After that I don’t know if it’s mission accomplish or maybe it doesn’t have to end there, we can go more ambitious… the assets can be put on a folder in Google Drive so they can be downloaded and it’s homework’s phase 2…. it can be layout training.

You can teach how to link files, that way we have lots of models we can use to arrange our own scene, do our own layout, lighting, composition, etc. But this way the end result wouldn’t be a single one CG Cookie short, it would be different ones from different people. Maybe all are around the same concept but results range in difference as everyone would do their own homework and that always comes with variations.

Here’s something with a quick concept, Lucas the Spider. Short, snappy, cute. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieIeBWulAiQ

Well the idea is out there, maybe one day it would be doable.