At work we had a Digital Tutors subscription so I had a (short) chance to take a look at it. It has a huge library, but actually the overall quality didn't impress me. The substance painter tutorial wasn't even more informative than the free one Allegorithmic offers. Also from the look I think you can find a lot of that…
I'm comparing them against other sites, though. A lot of people I follow on youtube that put out free tutorials are less prone to issues than Digital Tutors. I'm not making this statement inside of a bubble. These issues I have with it are relative to other tutorials.
Personally any time I have subed to a website like digital tutors or lynda, its just information overload and you end up dabbling in everything, and this leads to an extreme lack of focus. I would say set a goal and objective for what you want to learn, environments, characters etc and then perhaps subscribe for a single…
What are the main complaints or disappointments you guys are finding in online training tutorials? I currently provide training for Lynda.com and have recently become an authorized instructor for Pluralsight, but am considering producing my own platform of training because Lynda and Digital Tutors have too many corporate…
I agree, except I've watched five tutorials on one subject and out of five, three I'll end up walking away with no return and only two that jump start into practice. Sometimes you have to watch alot of tutorials on a subject before you can begin. I've bought many tutorials which may take me a year or so to complete while…
I'm about getting it, I'm planning on mastering some topics of art, (from drawing to sculpture) And I'm not sure if i will need a whole year for all the things I want, probably less. Because there is a lack of some topics inside sculpture and others. Wouldn't it be better to start with Gnomon, and maybe later get other…
Last year I took a months subscription to Gnomon and the main thing I got from it was inspiration. I went into it with a really specific thing I wanted to learn and one of my favorite artist, Neville Page, had quite a few tutorials up there. My work really improved but mainly because I was getting my head down and I was…
I have only watched some tutorials from Gnomon and i must say the knowledge these artists give is invaluable. They have some really modern techniques and give a lot of insights. For me it's worth it if what you are looking for are not foundamentals but get your pieces to a new level of polish. Also watching from my phone…
Gumroad is also a great and typically cheap option. You can definitely learn how to do pretty much anything without using paid tutorials, but I do find paid tutorials are useful for learning a new application or getting a good insight at a particular professional's workflow.
You should keep in mind that Pluralsight (DigitalTutors) tutorials are wildly low-quality, and only useful for learning the very basics of software.I cannot recall a tutorial series on there in which I was not screaming "What are you doing!" every couple minutes.Stuff like taking 10 steps to hack their way around something…