@thebergh I’m sorry, I should have been clearer that I meant not having the skill level to grade the more advanced exercises. If you are creating a realistic character for example, you would like to be graded and get feedback from someone with experience modeling realistic characters. But as far as I know, those people are very very rare in the grading section..
I personally do not do the exercises anymore. I use the skills learned and create my own personal projects. Those I could potentially submit for a Live Critique Stream if I want feedback, that’s at the moment the best way to get valuable feedback at CG Cookie imo.
It was fun when I was doing the beginner exercises, but I quickly realized that submitting exercises wasn’t the best way to improve. Doing them, yes, that was very valuable starting out. But submitting them, that didn’t contribute to my learning at all..
Class is still the best way to skyrocket your learning progress imo, especially when starting out. As well as applying what you learn in the courses to your own projects.
Animation exercises excluded from this opinion of course, Wayne is doing an excellent job giving feedback on those!
