CG cookie is awesome, and ever dollar of the membership is completely worth it.
However, there are a lot of people where 30 dollars can get a bit pricey. So, I'm proposing a discounted membership idea.
This memberships will function in the same as full Citizen memberships, or Discounted memberships. However they would be limited to specific subjects such as: Blender, Unity/Game dev, 2D concept, and clay sculpting.
xenoslaywright I remember feeling exactly as you did. Money was tight and I just tried to learn off of free content on CGCookie. But the more I came back, the more I wanted to know.
I eventually just saved up for the yearly membership and waited for a discount/sale period where they offered "the Full Cookie" for a slightly better price and I bit the bullet.
I you cannot afford the yearly membership then I would even suggest just making a plan of what courses you are interested in learning and then buy a month membership once you've saved it up and do download all the videos for the stuff you want to learn. That would be the best bang for your buck and you could watch the other courses offline.
One course typically takes me a month because I am a blender hobbyist......and I am really not that good overall at learning 3D so simple topics take me some time. I mostly model at night when kids are in bed and my brain/creativity level is pretty much dried up for the day. But I push through it.
Just because you aren't a paid member doesn't mean we other member's can't give a helping hand when possible.
Well. I did check the support page. It said the number of downloads is 53. Accounts above the limit may be banned. So buying a month membership to download all courses may not be a good option.
Since we are all under quarantine, we have plenty of time to watch videos right now. :)
Yup, on the topic of downloading a crap ton of videos/courses and just watching them... I really rather not do that since that would be taking away money from them. Anyways I managed to get a discount so I could buy a month (im gonna try to absorb as much knowledge as I can). But thanks for your sympathy blanchsb.
I have heard them saying you can do that. They wouldn't let you download if they were worried about it. I'm just talking about options. You can pic a few courses: save up for a month subscription and then during that month download the videos you want to work on......rinse and repeat. Just a thought.