Reply To: Live Event Wishlist

[Thibaut Bourbon]

Good that this is being raised!

• Does a live stream time of 2CT (Central Time) work for you? If not, what is a better time during the week (Tue/Wed/Thur)?

> 2CT means 9am for me in Sweden, so not impossible as I won’t be sleeping yet somehow not easy to handle as I would be at the office at that time of the day. But once in a while it’s fairly OK. Tue/Wed/Thursday doesn’t really matter then.

[edit] just figured I mixed up am and pm –‘ so 9 pm is perfect !

• What would you like to see covered more often in Live streams? Any in particular that you really enjoyed?

> I really enjoyed the live critique! It was great to get live feedback, not only from you guys but also from the comment sections. 

• Classes are being introduced next month, would you like to see more classes for different subjects? If so which?

> I would be interested in more advanced hard surface modelling and photo-realistic rendering. On top of that, the possibility to do some workshop (something like “let’s build interior together”) could be a fun way to meet and enhance the classes experience. There’s perhaps possibility to organize some sort of conf’call where the attending people can share their screen and show live their progress ? For game development, it can be the opportunity to live test a game as well. I don’t know how many people usually attend, so if it’s scalable, that’d be awesome.

• How often are you available to watch live streams per week?

> Once or twice a week max for me.

• Would you prefer live streams over recorded content?

> This echoes a little bit a previous question. The benefit of live content is the interaction, so I’d prefer have live content for things such as group workshop and live critique. Recorded content are great for long courses. We can pause anytime, the content is never interrupted by the comment sections etc.

• What would you add to improve the live stream experience? Before, during or after live streams as well. 

> I would improve the comment sections, so we can “raise hand”, have the possibility to share my screen to other as well (like in conference meetings). It basically comes back to the group workshop idea.

I am fully aware that maybe my wishes are tough to grant but hey, if that can help improving the global experience it’s not vain!

Finally, just a few words to congratulate you guys from CGC crew to keep improving the service, your’re doing an awesome job!