The "How Would You:" thread series
One thing I've always liked about forum communities is that everyone is always helping others grow. Whether it be in modeling or texturing, lighting or engine work. There are so many methods to go about doing things to reach certain results. The way one person might do something, might be something completely different than another, yet getting very similar results.
I want to start up a thread series called "How Would You:" where every week we come up with a topic, whether it be creating a rock cliff side, texturing a whole building, or doing amazing looking brick work. Artists can create little small tutorials of how they went about reaching their piece. hopefully with creating a specific piece, and sharing that information, we can discover new ways of doing things, new techniques that we would never have thought of before on our own.
I don't know if its been done, or even if its a good idea. I just believe that sharing of knowledge for creating the same end piece can cause us to learn things we'd never would have thought of or tried on our own, thus making better artists. If its stupid, let me know and the idea dies here, but if not, maybe the great artists here can help the newer artists grow.
I want to start up a thread series called "How Would You:" where every week we come up with a topic, whether it be creating a rock cliff side, texturing a whole building, or doing amazing looking brick work. Artists can create little small tutorials of how they went about reaching their piece. hopefully with creating a specific piece, and sharing that information, we can discover new ways of doing things, new techniques that we would never have thought of before on our own.
I don't know if its been done, or even if its a good idea. I just believe that sharing of knowledge for creating the same end piece can cause us to learn things we'd never would have thought of or tried on our own, thus making better artists. If its stupid, let me know and the idea dies here, but if not, maybe the great artists here can help the newer artists grow.
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hmm, that is sorta what I'm talking about. I checked it out and they seem to have very specific things they are doing, such as a camera or a ghostbusters proton pack. Thats fine, but I was thinking of things a bit more generic, more broad. I wont really need to learn how to build a proton pack, but learning different methods to do brick walls, rubble,foliage, trees, modular building construction, realistic skin, and work flow, with modeling, texturing and lighting. That is what this is trying to reach for.
Plus, that section doesnt seem to be abandoned as there are only 5 topics which start as far back as 2009.
If it isn't in P&P, Tech talk, or GenDis, then it doesn't exist to most people.
If someone posted each week with a thread in p&p, something like:
"Weekly 'How To' Challenge #1: Cliffside"
And as long as a few people kicked it off with some nice how-to's, I'm sure it could catch on. I know I'd participate whenever possible....
Or, if you run into a specific issue when working on rubble, foliage or tree ... then by all means post your efforts and ask about that one part of the process you are stuck at. That way you are pretty much guaranteed to obtain precise feedback of great quality.
One cannot really expect busy individuals to have the time needed to answers big questions like that weekly for free just because someone feels like asking. It's a 2-way kind of thing - you do your effort, and you get feedback ...
Now you are very welcome to post your efforts on a weekly basis ! And then everybody wins
(not trying to be an ass here - it really is the way it works...)