Reply To: Growing Dissatisfaction with CGCookie

[tobles]

Hey @waylow,

thanks for your comment.
I’d like to say a few words to the point of learning by myself. I am totally aware that the CGC-instructors are not there to pick me up and carry me to my goals without me doing the work. But for the example I made with the arm it’s a little different. Mr. Trammell made very good videos where he shows references images and tells how to read information from them like shadows and how to use those informations. I think this is a great way to teach people how to do things on their own, but with this arm thingy, I have the problem that I don’t know how to read those “empty” information where the arm has no striking features. Trying and practicing it by myself always left me behind with kind of a garden hose that has an elbow and a wrist… looks kind of weird, can give nightmares (maybe?). At this point I feel like running face-first into a solid wall again and again without improving since I think I’m making the same mistakes in the same places over and over again. I would’ve uploaded it to get feedback but this leads to the feedback issue.
So, to round this up a little with what I said in my first post on this topic, I guess in this case it would have been good for me if there had been a short video in that particular course addressing different shapes/proportions.

Writing these posts gives me kind of a “backstabber” feeling, so I’d like to say that I’m enjoying all the content of CGCookie and I’m very happy having all this available.

Greetings,
tobles