Hi all, i'm sorta new to this site and recently decided to take CG a lot more seriously. Something from the interviews I've watched online with people like Andrew Kramer or Ton Roosendaal is that they discuss teamwork briefly and it's importance.
Something I feel that can be expanded into a course on this site, perhaps like group exercises where one person does compositing and another does texturing and it teaches us to work together and manage a project.
I personally feel like as an artist I have a huge ego that's only really settled when i'm put into a team and see how shit i really am. And i'm very shit. Would this be possible for a course like this to be developed or is currently in development on CG cookie?
TL;DR: I think it's really helpful to have a team based exercise and course developed on this site please and thank you :)
While we could encourage team based projects, ultimately it's up to the community to determine if they will work together. We've had a few bigger flows on the site that involved multiple instructors teaching a specific part like the Game Asset Creation course. We've also worked on a Tower Defense course that involved 3d modeling, level design and game development. Outside of that we could talk about how we work as a team to work on projects, but I'm not sure what course would help with that.
Great and promising response Wes.
Since after all.. as everyone individually progresses towards becoming an individual Blender-guru, nothing (else) can expand one's current capacities even more then becoming a part of a team which stimulates each-other and each and every single individual above and beyond the edges of there current flight-envelope
After all that is how Blender itself (and many other open-source projects like Linux, LibreOffice, Gimp )
has become such a succes, by global teamwork of the talents.
Since CGCookie already has become is a place (in the Blender Universe), where people flock together,
why not take it to the next (team-working) level and start off a whole new series of tutorials, courses at it?