A lot of those topics are great. I have noted them and will start working at what we should cover and when. We want to start with the most basic and work out way up. This way we have a solid foundation to work from. Thanks for the ideas guys!

Sounds good...

A big +1 from me!

I always like to learn something new, and as a "programer artist" :) I am always happy to learn something from real artists.

As an advanced "programer artist" I would not only like to see basics, but also more advanced topics. Of course I know that gamedev is mainly populated by programmers, and there is always polycount and communities like that for the pro artist stuff...

But often these communities deal with very specific, professional grade topics, that often are a little bit too advanced for me (I will have to do some google research on my own to be able to follow the topic). Now I am not lazy or something like that, but some intermediary tutorials would also be good.

If its not too much to ask, how about trying to make every tutorial a two-section thing: a longer section introducing a topic to beginners, step by step, and a shorter section that will show you advanced stuff, in a less step by step fashion.

That way, beginenrs who have mastered the first part can then move on to the advanced section to further improve their skills, while more advanced artists might skip the first part and see if they can still learn something from the advanced section.

As an example:

- Tutorial about rigging skinned meshes

-> Basic section shows you step by step how to rig your character in blender

-> Advanced section deals in a much shorter form with topics like differences in rigging workflow between blender and other tools (if you don't use blender or want to move to another tool), rigging a character with clothing or armour, rigging and using Inverse Kinematics, and so on

This might now be too much to cover in a weekly basis, and might be spread over a month or so. You could do the basic part over 3 weeks, and release the more advanced topics in the fourth week.

Personally I am pretty much interested in everything, both 3D and 2D. I just love to learn something new. What would be especially useful to me (As I am not that knowledgable in these topics):

- Rigging, Animation of skinned meshes

- How to animate Clothing, armour and other parts attached to skinned meshes

- New technologies, and how they could be used in existing engines and tools (I recently saw a trailer about a new Autodesk Product, were they use "stress-maps" for things like wrinkles during facial animation, or folds in clothing... I immidiatly knew that I need to get something like that working in Unity! Maybe not in this project, but this seems to be a very powerful technique with little overhead, if the shader is clever enough)...

Well, the last one is maybe too technical, but there is also the artistic side to it, how to use the stress maps to get convincing effects from it.

Either way, I am very excited to see what you coe up with... bring it on!

@ryan I could provide a downloadable version... i dont see a reason why not

@Gian I agree for the most part with everything you said. I can certainly spend some time making mid level topics as well. While making these tutorials I will do my best to focus on all areas that it might be viewed from. Keep in mind that While I am an experienced artist I am by no means the end all be all of things. There are thousands of ways to skin the same cat when it comes to game art. I will simply be showing off the things that work best for me and what I have learned throughout my time.

As for animation/rigging. I can go in depth with this as well since this is an area I have had to deal with A LOT as of late.

@Gian I agree for the most part with everything you said. I can certainly spend some time making mid level topics as well. While making these tutorials I will do my best to focus on all areas that it might be viewed from. Keep in mind that While I am an experienced artist I am by no means the end all be all of things. There are thousands of ways to skin the same cat when it comes to game art. I will simply be showing off the things that work best for me and what I have learned throughout my time.

As for animation/rigging. I can go in depth with this as well since this is an area I have had to deal with A LOT as of late.

It is always good to see other peoples workflows and what works for them, not matter what their skill level is. You can always pick up a thing or two. Usually I only have to ask other people if I get stuck somewhere, sometimes doing that I learn an extremly useful feature that helps me way beyond my original problem.

And even after using at tool for years, there might be still a ton of beginner level knowledge you haven't pick up because, you know, never needed it, never read the user manual...

So I am sure everyone will be able to get something out of such a tutorial series. Maybe it might even get other people interested in doing guest tutorials from time to time?

And if not, if it only broadens the view of some expierienced artists, helps some beginners along and maybe gets one or two programmers to try creating some art, that is also cool.

Anyway, looking forward to it.

Some traditional work with pencil to get started. The fundamentals to build on for a stepping stone to everything else. Not sure if any of this will really happen. But we will see.

Worked on getting all the topics we discussed in place. I will be aiming to have this video up and going by next weekend. We might need to change it from weekly to bi-weekly for the first few since I am in the process of moving.