I’m a computational designer passionate about all things Grasshopper, and I’ve been considering starting a YouTube channel to share some tutorials and tips on using this fantastic tool. However, before diving in, I wanted to reach out to this amazing community to gather some input on what topics you’d like to see covered. Are there specific plugins? What about hard to grasp concepts? Maybe a process/use case that is still elusive?
Suggestions for both basic and advanced tutorials are appreciated. This community has been so helpful for me in my Rhino+Grasshopper journey and I would love to hear your opinion.
I apologize, I am not looking for resources to learn, I am looking to teach. But I want to make sure I’m providing help for things that might still be missing good recourses.
Hi @cameronbehning,
I suggest focusing on a specific topic that you master and develop. There are tons of introductory tutorials and please let it not become a “let’s replicate this pavilion…”
Anyway, I haven’t seen many advanced topics like Geometry Processing and all the topics that come with it.
Bests,
My struggle was that there’s no real entry level YouTube tutorial (or written) to go from scratch and end up with something useful. And by useful I mean something you could use, re-use, and add onto. An example is that I had to make my own window definition. The tutorial (without sound or explanations) created a window but it was really basic and not really practical.
My specialty is the basic boring stuff. For example, I might use GH (and/or RhinoCommon) to streamline annotating a document. That stuff might not get a lot of views. This post is just my own personal perspective. When creating content, you have to keep your goals close in mind. If you want lots of views but don’t care about practicality, a GH definition that creates boobies of all shapes and sizes would probably be a good choice. If you have a side business you want to promote, then a video geared towards that industry would be better. And for myself it’s really just a hobby so I upload whatever I feel like (with just a dash of self-promotion mixed into it).
There’s lots of good “tutorials” appearing but they are without narration and usually have peculiarly picked-out background music for whatever reason. Some are good, others are great. Some are so-so. Some aren’t really efficient nor practical. One could argue that all of that is subjective, but one thing that isn’t subjective is the fact that YouTube is oversaturated with those types of videos and that will make it much harder for authors to get their work noticed.