As a golden rule I never usual comment on threads about my articles DVD’s or other projects unless it is a technical query. But as some ‘facts’ are in danger of becoming’ internet myths’ I’ve got to reply to some of them I feel.
RE ‘baby crying’:
I never have and never will record with my son or any other person in the room while I record. So if there is indeed a baby crying (and I have to admit I’ve not had time to check) then the noise it isn’t him (as he was 8 miles away at the time of recording with my parents for the day). So I’m assuming its some ambient noise that I didn’t notice while checking the footage over. If I had it would have been a simple matter to re-record the vocal track again.
Re ‘neighbour banging on the walls’:
This was added more as an explanation of the cut in that section, because the noise isn’t on the DVD as I edited the sound track before sending to Kurv. I didn’t just want to put an unexplained ‘cut’ as that just didn’t seem right. Obviously my ironic humour does not travel well. (Note to self: you are not a funny man lol’)
Re: accent etc…
All companies that sell tutorial DVD’s put up sample videos for a whole host of reasons including making sure that not only do you find the tutors style something you like, but also that you can understand them. There are samples from DVD vol 1 for users to check out before they buy.
(Although I do find it rather amusing that I’ve had emails for people in Poland, Italy etc who don’t speak a work of English complaining via ‘bablefish’ email that they can’t understand me.) If you have trouble understanding me, then dont buy the dvd’s as the last thing I want is unhappy customers.
Re: ‘video appears to be missing’
Once I hand over the footage to Kurv that side is out of my hands, but there indeed was a chapter missed out (Steven this is why it jumps dramatically as a crucial chapter was missed out. Contact Kurv along with your purchase details and they will give you a link to the missing chapter.) I can’t say I was happy about a missing chapter as I’ve had an amazing amount of emails on the subject on what to be frank is not my responsibility and totally out of my hands. But the bottom line is it is my name on the front of the DVD’ so any mistakes not only reflect on me but make me ‘responsible’, whether in reality I am or not.
There was a huge amount of stuff to fit on these videos especially vol1, as whereas all other companies just covered the V3 updated features, I covered everything. So as such these DVD’s aren’t meant to be just watched ‘once’ but as a point of reference. So although there is more footage length wise than most other Zbrush DVD’s there still was times that things had to be rushed a little to get over the basic concepts for everything. Did this work in the long run? Maybe not judging by opinion in this thread, although the idea I had was to give people ‘vol 1’ that could tell them all they needed to know about how to work with Zbrush from purely interface point of view. (So they wouldn’t have to buy numerous DVD’s each covering part of the interface …)
Re: ‘Cofee smoking etc…’
I chain smoke while I work and as there is little danger of passive smoking by listing to me smoke I do not see a problem when recording long dvd’s such as these. The same thing goes for the coffee. 3D is a caffine fueled industry, so I’m sure people can overloook a few sips of coffee on a 5 hour DVD?
I wanted to cover some of the more important points before it gets into being an ‘accepted fact’. At soe point there may well be an announcement… but I can’t say anything right now.
Wayne…
)