Unity's Complete Global Illumination Lesson in 4.5 Mins.

Just finished this tutorial a few hours ago, hope it would serve you well.

 

The comments on your video indicate it has good information, but the attempted humor and language choices made me close your video before thirty seconds had passed. If I'm going to be forced to watch a video tutorial, for information that likely could have taken only a few paragraphs of text, then it should be at least professional (think Zak Parrish).

 

You are using the words "complete" and "tutorial" incorrectly. It's fine as a simple example, but is far from complete not very explanatory.

 

In addition to the above, the final results are far from what I'd consider satisfactory. If showing a tutorial, the results should really be something I'd want to see in my own work..

 

You could honestly replace this with a single image that says "click static"

I think the self promotion "other videos suck!" is actually sort of funny, or at least true enough that it's acceptable. But you could cut this tutorial down to 2 minutes if you talked a bit less smack (or pack in a bit more actual information).

 

The font used in the video is just bad looking.

 

I guess it's a new breed of infotainment for non serious developers so I wouldn't give it much thought. It's the same thing for youtube secrets of gaming and so on, usually these are trivial tips bulked out by tonnes of lensflares, text, exciting screen wipes and so on.

It's for people playing at game maker and has it's own valid audience. Just not serious developers. It's a micro-business.

Here's my incomplete global illumination lesson in 0.5 seconds: click static.

 

Pretty original video, fits some audiences but wouldn't consider professional.

Adding few jokes here and there is nice, but you must keep in mind that people are here to learn not to laugh.

These kinds of videos has potential, just need some improvement in terms of content.

 

Hey Ryiah I searched Zak Parrish on youtube to see a more serious - professional presentation than the one offered by OP but there seems to be about 20+ Zak Parrish youtubers related to game development (most dealing with Unreal).
Can you share a link to the one you are talking about? I'm always interested in serious, helpful, information sharing and think it's one of the great resources of this community.

- Thanks

 

He was previously a 3D Buzz employee but now he works for Epic Games making many of their video tutorials. I'll link you to the old Unity 3.x fundamental tutorials he made. They're free so I used to link them prior to the official Learn section.

https://www.3dbuzz.com/training/view/unity-fundamentals

Here are some of his Unreal 4 video tutorials.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gaCL2XjKluO7N2Pmmw9pvhE

 

I liked it, I thought it was funny and was not bored watching it.
I would be a bit more careful with the language to make it kid-friendly.

 

Was good enough, short and straight to the point. Btw you could have condensed everything to around less then 2 mins.
And watch the language just to make it as Grafos said kid friendly.

 

Thank you, I am still trying to balance joke/sarcasm with "to the point-ness", this is a very new series [just two videos] and positive feedback from people like you keeps me going.

Yes a number of people have brought that up, not sure if I can totally clean up the language [I am lower lower class type of guy ;p] but it is definitely something worth minimizing from now on.
Thank you for appreciating my effort

GI was a Beast of a Topic to optimize, perhaps I should cut down on jokes when videos get beyond the 3 minute mark because I really just want to make quick below 2 minute videos.
Global Illumination is just too big to be squeeze in that...but yeah, perhaps with subjects like this, the removal of jokes will truly cut it to 2 minutes and will be the most info packed two minute Global Illumination tutorial out there [I think]
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Thank you for your appreciation, more videos will be coming that is short and to the point for the three of you that see something good in this.