Welcome! The contributors are a rare tye of person, extremely generous and friendly. It's great to welcome you to The Guerrilla CG Project, and brilliant to have everyone on board.

1. Post About Yourself
Have a look through the existing posts then please post a bit of info about yourself in The New Contributor Introductions (started by Dipingo)thread. I'll slowly add everyone to The Team thread too. Provide links to your existing work where possible. This way everyone will get to know eachother a little.

Also please tell us what you're interested in creating, we are focusing on creating Fundamental Videos so choose a topic ie. Explaining FK and IK. If you are not sure yet that's fine. If you are here to post news or help out with the backend of the site etc, just say that instead.

2. Choose a Fundamental Video Topic (if this is what you want to do)
If you are not sure, the next post (below) will talk a bit about this.

3. Create A New Video Script Thread
Once you have chosen a topic, I've found it best to write a script of the tutorial. This helps me brainstorm a little before I get stuck into 3d. I've learnt this the hard way, I'd finish my 3d video content and then realise I'd left something obvious out! It was a real pain. A script will also allow feedback from everyone, this makes the idea even stronger, and you'll look better when the vid is released!

Create a new thread, call it

VIDEO SCRIPT: Your Video Title

example

VIDEO SCRIPT: IK and FK Explained

Now post your script in there.

4. Download The Video Pack and Video Resources
In the WIP menu section you will see a fundamental Video Style guide you must email me andrewsilke@guerrillacg.org for the pack. Important! Read through that document, for example we are working at 25fps 800x600, this will work with the existing titles. Here you will find things like music and titles and other assets like .objs and maya files of the work I've done so far. Also check out "How I've made the tutorials so far" under the WIP menu, there's a couple of screen capture vids wher I go over some of my maya and editing of the videos so far.

5. Start Creating Your Video
When you have something to show, we'd love to see it, we can upload a file in QT or .flv format so everyone can see it in the WIP section.

6. Finish your Video
Add sound effects and edit your video with the Guerrilla titles and pack. Make a low res version so we can have a look at it. There will be a certain quality level to meet, but I don't believe anyone will have problems, this will probably a sort of consensus between the other contributors. I don't think anyone will have problems.

Output the sequence and send or ftp it to me, I can give you ftp details, we will be discusing format options and ways of moving large files around. Greg gave me a high quality .jpg sequence and a .wav file.

7. Fill out your presenter page
Let me know what you want on your Presenter Page.

Done!

Any questions post em on the forums.

-silke

For most of us teaching the basics seems hardly exciting, but everyone has to learn at some stage, so if we focus on this stuff I believe we could make a real contribution to the world of CG. Most of these basic concepts when understood properly can become quite exciting anyway.

If you'd like to teach an advanced topic that's great too, say for exapmle a video on Muscle Dynamics would probably become one of the more popular videos. But I'd like to make this site understandable for the absolute beginner, they are our biggest audience.

Here's a list of topics that might be appropriate, if you are unsure, pick one. If you can make a modelling video that's even better becasue I'd like to focus and finish as much of that section as possible. There's a lot here, but don't worry we should cover what we can. There's no rush. Maybe pick a topic that people would find most frustrating. Simple ones are good because they'll take less time to create.

Although the topics appear simple, many of them can do complicated things, think of how the polygon video ends up creating a complicated face. This is the sort of thing we're after.

Titles are in no particular order.

3d Modelling Related
1. 3d Navigation and Interface (I have some ideas for this one)
2. Selecting, Objects, Vertices's, Edges and Polygons
3. Moving Rotating and Scaling
4. Polygon Tools Overview
5. Extrude and Bevel
6. Cut Tools (including edge loop split)
7. Combining Objects Manually and Booleans
8. Morph targets (might need a couple of videos)
9. Deforming Objects (lattices bend modifiers etc)
10. History Stack Explained
11. Freezing the Transforms (incl scale) of Objects
12. Digital Sculpting basics, how it works
13. Tweaking Vertices's/ Soft Modification / Smooth / Paint
14. Level of detail/modelling For Screen Resolution
15. What Is Box Modelling?
16. Basic Polygon Topology - very basic
17. Low Resolution Games Topology (modelling for silhouette)
18. Basic Camera - Lenses and Clipping Planes
19. Modelling Facial Topology
20. Choosing topology for a model
21. UV texturing (I'll do this one)
22. Basic Shader Properties
23. Using splines as a guide for modelling
24. Modelling with reference (Greg wants to do this one)
25. Bump Mapping
26. Normal Mapping
27. Displacement Mapping
28. Modelling for organic Deformation
29. Modelling Topology for the human body (Jake has started)
30. Subdivision Surface basics (Glen has started)
31. Modelling workflow - efficient ways to build models
32. Basic skinning, how it works, why high poly counts can be bad.
33. Difference between NURBS and Poly Modelling
34. Cloth

Wow ok there's quite a bit there, how bout other areas?

Animation
1. Basic key frames, how the computer calculates the inbetween, would show a complex example at end.
2. Curves Tangent Example - Bouncing Ball
3. Curve Tangent Basics
4. Creating strong poses
5. Lines Of Action
6. Spacing
7. Pose To Pose
8. Straight Ahead Animation
9. Overlap
10. Basic acting
11. Lip Sync
12. Squash and Stretch
13. Exploring Weight
14. Simplifying animation (avoiding over acting)

Lighting
1. 3 point Lighting
2. Depth Map Shadows
3. Global Illumination
4. Ambient Occlusion
5. Different types of lights

Shading
1. Fresnel
2. Shader attributes
3. texture maps
3. Projection Maps

Rigging
1. FK vs IK
2. Constraints
3. Basic Skinning
4. Joints/Bones
5. Clusters
6. Blend Shapes
7. Expressions
8. Linking or connecting Attributes/Values
9. Driven Keys
10. Nodes
11. Building a Basic Human Rig
12. Spline IK
13. Animation Paths

2D (could be broken into sections)
1. The pixel
2. Resolution
3. Aspect Ratio
4. How the computer calculates color
5. Non Square pixels
6. DPI explained
7. Vector Graphics
8. Layers
9. Colour Grading Overview
10. Hue Saturation
11. Curves
12. Levels
13. Images with different bit depths
14. Alpha Channels/ Mattes
15. Cloning
16. Painting with a Tablet vs Mouse
17. Text overview
18. Colour Keying
19. Selections

Artistic Principles
1. Composition Basics
2. Balance
3. Leading the Eye
4. Contrast
5. Color choices

Digital Painting
1. Blocking Construction
2. laying Color
3. Perspective

Obviously this list could go on forever, I'm sure you get the idea!
-Silke

Ok

I was a bit busy but now I have some time and I wanna do THE PIXEL, oooh the mighty pixel, that time we had, the adventures, the fun, I still remember my first pixel.

any way, I love pixels as you can see, I wanna make that series of vidz

1. The pixel
2. Resolution
3. Aspect Ratio
4. How the computer calculates color
5. Non Square pixels
6. DPI explained
7. Vector Graphics

sign me up for this guys first, they all have related stuff and I wanna make them the same style, with my friend the pixel.

thank you
this is varomix and . << that's pixel :D

I will start with IKvsFK.

I should have a script with in the next day or so.

Talk to you soon.

sounds great guys

I'll take digital sculpting, displacement normal and bump maps for starters if no one objects?


Wayne...

Hi to every one. My name is Jesus Bacca.
I will reviewing the subjects and then I will post to Andrew the scripts for my first tutorial by next week.
I think I will undertake a hole project from scratch and split it in several videos, so the students will follow trough and become more familiar of what a process demands.
I want to thank you guys specially to Andrew who welcome me into this exiting and nobel project.
Until next week then.

Jesus.