I would say that I can communicate quite well without resorting to dropping profanity all the time. Some would say that I am just old and out of touch with how people communicate. Having your audience see your working folders on your computer labeled and is distracting. When a person is constantly referring to a WIP as 'sh#t' or that something looks '***,' it can be distracting. It simply reeks of no preparation, no rehearsal and definitely no filter when it comes to language. Haphazardly stumbling your way through an interface, constantly thinking out loud and wondering where something is and hovering the mouse over the very button you are looking for is not a teaching style. Yes, I have learned a couple of things I didn't already know.īut as far as teaching goes, there is no real style there in my opinion. I watched more of the video series last night (intro to 3D Coat where he builds some rocks, repeating assets and an arch). Like good medicine, I may have to consume a bitter pill to glean the benefits.Īgain, this is referring to the tutorials by David Lesperance (I think that is the right spelling). Perhaps this young man really knows his stuff. But given last night's experience, I may have to relegate this young man to the avoidance status I have given another prolific author, who I found less than professional and whose mastery of such tools I found lacking. I want to encourage people to make good tutorials to share knowledge. As a past instructor of animation and photoshop, I will be wincing along the way.Īgain, I paid more for these than the asking price. Since I bought the tuts, I will wade through and probably learn something. I have a sense that this young man actually knows something, but may not be the best at conveying that information due to nerves or ADHD. Even with the unrehersed and profanity laden presentation, I actually learned a couple of things from the intro. I bought the two vids pertaining to 3d coat and hope to learn something. I assume and hope that he is, indeed, a great artist to learn from. I don't mean to come down so hard on the author. I could not help but have visions of this young man trying to balance out BONG hits with binging on Red Bull. I also found that the author was easily distracted and went on many small tangents when talking about certain tools and the cadence of speach would 'literally' fluctuate between profanity laden, stoner-speak quips to tripple speed, randomized interface clicking with accompaning fast-speak-stream-of-thought activity. Again some preparation and editing would go a long way. I guess they don't teach public speaking at a fine arts school. The use of the word literally is used, 'literally,' at least a dozen times. When the author states that a tool 'literally' does what is states that is useless information. I could forgive an unedited slip of the tongue when an unexpected crash happens, but when the author denotes an unexpected result from an operation on some geometry as a '$h!t-storm of rage' from the program, I lost it in a fit of laughter, weeping for this younger generation of 'professionals.' It has no place in a 'professional' presentation. Forgive me for having the attitude that paid for instruction should be as professionally presented as possible (I paid more for these than the asking price because I believe if supporting artists who demonstrate good skill and knowledge). I understand that these programs can be finicky at times and nothing goes perfect - that is why you edit - to give the viewer the best and apt information. A little editing goes a LONG way to get your point across.

'Hemming and Hawing' through your presentation makes the viewer doubt your skills and the utility of what they bought. This follows the norm of the YouTube generation where everybody thinks they can just do something and it is great. Switch on the camera and start going - no preparation or editing. I will sum up my initial impressions below. To be honest, I have not got into the tutorial proper, but had only watched 3/4's of it before I couldn't take it any more and broke down in a fit of laughter at the ridiculousness of it all. The reason for my laughter is not because I found the author funny or charming in any sort of way, but frankly, the presentation style and lack of professionalism in delivering their product was ironically and hilariously psyche wrecking. I broke down in a fit of laughter after getting through 3/4's of first section video (beware of the multi-gigabyte files as it seems the author didn't compress them - or edit, but I will get to that). I took the bait and started watching the inroduction series last night.

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