"Figuring it out for yourself" is one of the worst ways to learn unfortunately. You can spend years and years doing a workflow a slower way, 1 tutorial complete changes that. Tutorials are great, even paid ones. They just have to be really good. For example I've bought a lot of UDEMY tutorials that I found extremely…
@Elithenia I agree with you on the price aspect. I bought Jacob Norris' tutorial for like... 80 bucks or something and it was amazing. Tutorials on SimplyMaya were also around $50, and those were superb. That was a good price to pay for it. When courses which are $50-$100 are so great, its difficult to spend $800 for one.…
I have mixed feelings about it. I do think some people don't really understand that all the tutorials and software they need exist online for very reasonable prices or free, and they just need to download them and work really hard. Obviously you find this out if you research hard enough, but the first thing some people…
edit: oh god, just saw the size of this wall of text. Another good ol' pixelmasher novel :P sorry guys! I can see both sides of the coin. On one hand, free doesn't always mean good (just look at canadas health care system...) and on the other the internet has given anyone the ability to start a business and sell whatever…
very true. There is also an innate reaction of taking something you pay for more seriously because you see it as more valuable. Tons of people consume free content but fail to take action, where as someone paying for school or an online course might feel more obligated to actually follow through. Sometimes free content can…
Thanks :) gonna be putting out some articles next week and then focusing on some env art tutorials and content for a youtube channel. A side note, I already have a fairly profitable side hustle that handles my daily expenses, so 99% of whatever I make off selling tuts is going to be funneled back into growing the company,…
I've had a couple semesters worth of study at my local community college (3D Modeling, UI design) and I thrived in that environment even though the curriculum and instructors were both pretty underwhelming. 3D Art has blown my mind wide open. Unfortunately that school didn't work out for me but I've amassed an unhealthy…
I had a course with John Gotch at CGMA for Marvelous Designer. Could I have gotten the information for free? Yes. But me personally I function a lot better in classes, the structure and the possibility to interact with my teacher are better than any tutorial. Also feedback. You can't compare online sities sometimes people…