<chunk> goes the plastic and home go the DVDs. What a great deal, I think to myself.
good and the bad...
The good - The painting tips and techniques are ROCK solid. They start out with basics, and move along to some very advanced stuff. You do get your moneys worth with the content in a big way. They cover dry brushing, highlighting, blending etc in a well lit, well produced method that makes it easy to learn and you can actually SEE what they are doing, unlike some videos where they folks cover the mini with their hands or have horrid lighting. A great deal of thought went into the minis they demonstrate on and the techniques used on each. The videos made me want to try the techniques (and fail, but that is how we learn). So, content gets an A-. The minus is just because I don't want to sound all fanboi...
The bad - As good as the techniques and videos are, they really fall short on production. #1 - the music track is at times, too loud and at all times, HORRID loops of some canned crap tunes that make you want to vomit. #2 the DVDs seem like they just grabbed the video's from their site and tossed them onto a DVD program and hit "create". There is no "play all" so you have to select every video scene in every menu heading. The menu structure makes it even harder to navigate. 20 minutes with iDVD on a MAC would have made a tons better structured DVD set. This is more like picking videos from YouTube than a well made DVD.
Overall = B. The presentation and video quality far outweigh the bad production quality of the DVDs . You WILL learn alot from the DVD set and it will get you in the mood to paint! They succeed here in a big way!
