Hey Ginseng,
If I get your post correctly you focus on tutorials that would fit to the category “what is new in r14”. OK. Our members have a mixed installment of versions, as you might see frequently in the forum. We try to reflect this of course.
But yes, I understand certainly your wish to have the latest and newest reflected in new released tutorials. I agree with that, as I have as well an understanding about the requests that our members have about production based training.
My part here is certainly that I take such “larger” things on, the long running more in depth series. I hope that it will not last very long until we can release 200+ tutorials (after the 212 Patrick mentioned), these new ones are all done with r14. With new themes but as well with features which had no need to be changed in r14. A mixture of themes of course.
I cover the connection to NUKE and here for example Alembic, which I requested to have in the application when it was discussed during Siggraph. A technology that is initiated by Sony and ILM. One series goes into depth about the Camera Projection, and another is then a making of (see link below) an music video based on the series mentioned before. A complete production based on Canon 5Dm2 and RED, created in C4D with exactly this new feature. Production proven and r14!
There is of course as well the need to go deeper into e.g., Light and Texture, something that reflects the installed release base of our members, i.e., all done and recorded in r14 but useable one or two releases earlier.
There is certainly more in work. However, these production courses take a lot of time, and as I produce them with my own equipment and budget, it has not the speed of a feature film production of course, most of the time I work on set without an assistance team for these productions.
Currently I follow closely (for example) the development of ACES, an Academy standard for digital workflow, and how that will eventually influence our work. Just so we are on top of the development. MAXON has set the options to be here on top many years ago in r12 and later versions. I will hopefully show this soon as well. My efforts here were over the last years certainly noticeable.
This material (many new series) is predominately not just like a simple starter series with an easy to set up screen capture. I see pure starter screen capture popping up all over the place now, a reason for me to deliver what is needed in day by day work: In depth training wit a wide horizon what is needed if you like to “survive” in an studio environment.
These series are based on research, scripting and real world production. The delivered and accumulated value of these series alone is certainly way beyond the renew fee (based on my experience following many resources, and having paid for 5,000+ tutorials over many years by now). I haven’t seen a place with this amount of tutorials that let you participate for a renew fee below $100, with an active forum, driven by instructors. Which brings up the next point, if there is a question to r14, we all are more than happy to answer in the forum. Something that was mentioned more often as a high value by itself.
Anyway, I got your perspective to this and I hope I could reflect this in my answer. I like your reasonable input here, thank you. Please post specific tutorial wishes in this thread, as the variety of R14 feature is not small, and since its release I haven’t seen a lot of requests about r14, so it might fit better to your needs. Thank you.
All the best
Sassi
