The success of a project depends on its planning. Pre-production is the process of thinking through the DNA of the project, how we're going to approach each stage of production, who does what, and in what time frame.
As a modeling-centric collaboration, modeling tasks are plentiful and complex. Primarily this stage covers the modeling of the mech, the environment, and the machinery, all of which is divided among contributors.
The final stage of this collab production involves material creation, lighting, rigging, animation, VFX and rendering. In a way, we're adding the final ingredients before they're ready to be 'baked in the oven'.
All streams from the first two collab projects are also freely available to watch as playlists!
Holy moly! What a beast! This is definitely not your regular delivery of a CG Cookie course, but the amount of knowledge in these streams is no joke, and worth every second of it! A "fly-on-the-wall" opportunity to a project that turned out incredible!
Watching the 40 some hours is not feasible with a normal approach, so I did it a tad differently and can recommend it. It worked really well for me. I mainly listened to it as a podcast, a lot of 2x speed, pausing/slowing down when I heard a topic that wanted to dive deeper in. Also recommend taking advantage of the notes button on top of the video players. I made little personal notes with a timecode that could help me find the topic later.
It already paid off! I'm using the linked library of materials + vertex painting system in a project and it is working wonders.
Topics wise: if you are interested in hard surface modeling, and optimization of large scenes: golden info here! I also learned a lot about how much work goes into the planning, as well as it is ok to change directions/workflows throughout the project. The kind of stuff you don't get from an overly rehearsed tutorial.Β
I loved it, and now am curious to watch/listen to the other playlists of previous collabs.Β
Your review made my day. I'm thrilled that you watched the whole thing, that you learned from it, and that you recommended a way to watch it effectively. Thank you, Nathi!
I've been patiently waiting for the first review here! It's a very differentΒ kind of course, but I'm thrilled that you've learned from it. Thanks for watching and taking the time to review πββοΈ