Gnomon or Digital-Tutors?

[diggitydanks]

What's the better series overall? Quality of instruction, how easy is it to understand, does it just tell you how to do things or explain why you're doing it? The 2 specific DVD's I'm looking at are:

Digital Tutors Maya Basics-- http://store.digital-tutors.com/store2/cus...t=14&page=1

and Gnomon Nurbs modeling 1-- http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/dvds/mod01.html

[jtk77]

Gnomon videos are awsome. The new ones , as opposed to the older group of DVDs are much clearer, but I own the modeling 1 dvd and I think its great info. They don't seem to jsut show you the tools, but the DVDs seem to also give you a good idea of a professtional workflow when using the tools. Best training DVDs I've run across.

[saker]

Does anyone who owns the Digital-tutors DVDs, have an opinion about them ? Or a link to a review.

[david-schoneveld]

I do, I'm a biased opinion, that said, I think characteristically it breaks down like this:

Alias best DVD's show the most advanced techniques and there for are hardest to follow (Still excellent DVD's), the more intermediate and beginner of Alias's DVD's I'm not as familiar with.

Gnomon are good beginner to advanced, but breaks it into a lot of DVD's to cover all that info, and has a lot of diverse, knowledgeable on the specific topic, artist help to create them.

Digital tutors is good for beginner to advanced focusing on beginner to intermediate or that's where most of their DVD's are. The positives to DT are that it's clear on the topic and to the point, you get a lot out of each DVD on a broad topic. Where as Gnomon gives you a lot out of each DVD on a more focused topic. Again I'm trying to generalize, so not always the case.

If money isn't an issue (like if you can request that your company buy them) I sugesst getting them all (ALias, Gnomon, DT) on the topics that interest you. They are all worth more in knowledge than they cost. There are no worthless DVD in any of them that I've seen so far.

And if it's your money and you can only afford one I'd say assess your knowlage and pick which DVD would help you the most, according to it's list of topics. Like if you are new to a topic, and don't have a lot to spend then maybe DT would be best for a beginner overview, if you know some and want to know a lot about something specific like how to use springs them Gnomon would be a good choice. They really are all good DVD's. I've gotten the company I work for to buy extensively on the topics that interest me, from each company.

I love learning from the DVD's it so much better than books.

Hope that helps.

[saker]

That does help, great post.

Thanks a lot.
--Rudy

[joojaa]

I love learning from the DVD's it so much better than books.

Actualy i say books are better. But matter of taste i guess. Thing is you can easily take a book and update your knowlege but watching a dvd thats only slightly more advanced than you allready are is BOORING to the extreme. Alo you pick up things slightly better in books imho beccause your mind is more in tune with the process of intake. And usualy well written text is better in terms of teaching, but poor tecxt is worse than bad quality training vid.

[david-schoneveld]

good point. If your know the subject then the DVD's put me right to sleep, so brushing up on a subject might be better with a good book.