Reply To: Growing Dissatisfaction with CGCookie

[smurfmier1985]

@thebergh I still wanted to respond to something you said earlier:

I do feel CGC needs to be able to cater both the serious student and the doodler/hobbyist, or sooner or later all that’s going to be left is the latter.

But do they though? Have to cater both? As in provide different content / features aimed at one or the other? Considering the small crew they are, and how long it takes to create courses and such, that’s a hell of a lot to ask..

As far as I know (from what Kent tells during streams), they aim to offer high quality content that takes you from noob to finding a job in the industry aka the serious learner. And with that choice comes certain sacrifices (maybe less doodle members), but also opportunities!  (like growing a strong community of passionate artists) I think it’s good they choose clear path, with the small crew they are. Focus is key in providing quality content.

Doesn’t mean your typical hobbyist can’t enjoy CG Cookie, on the contrary! They have access and get to learn from this high quality content too 😊

I do think you have to be consistent though, and make sure every part of the learning platform follows the same high standards you set. Cater to your chosen audience.  

And as always the awesome Cookie crew is demonstrating they listen to their members and want to improve by engaging with us about our concerns here in this thread, which I applaud 🙌🏻

I do strongly believe meaningful feedback (from artists ahead of you in experience) is super important for your learning progress, so the more ways those can be provided / implemented the better. Especially on a learning platform like this. Yes, you have your own responsibility to practice what you learn, but if you don’t know what you’re doing wrong and keep practicing the same mistakes you’ll never get better. You’ll probably just give up in the end.. I believe @tobles mentioned this also.

Curious to see how this exercise thingy gets upgraded to the next level 😎