[color=YellowGreen]I’ve been getting emails asking me similar questions ever since the first run of the workshop, and I’m still getting them now. The questions are always related to “I’m a beginner, so is this workshop for me?” or “I’m a 3D artist (or insert any other visual artist), and I’m wondering if this workshop is relevant and helpful to someone like me?” or “I’m already a professional artist working in (insert industry) doing (insert job), and I’d like to know what I would gain from taking this workshop.”
I’ve already answered these types of question many times by email and also right in this thread, and I’ll answer them here again, hopefully even more thoroughly than before, and I"ll be using this post as a link for any more similar questions I get in the future. So here goes:
This workshop was painstaking designed so that advanced, intermediate, and beginner artists can all learn a lot from it, and students of different levels will all gain different things from it. The kind of “AHA!” moments the advanced artists will have will be different from the ones the intermediate and novices will have, and vice versa. The workshop is so epic and encompassing that everyone will get very valuable “AHA!” moments from each week. I have had students that were already art directors and they learned a lot of valuable stuff along with the intermediate and novice artists. One of the students who was already an art director even said that the first week alone was worth the price of the enrollment fee, while the beginner and intermediate students were just completely blown away by all the new knowledge and insights they were being exposed to week after week. Yet despite the differences in skill and knowledge among the students, they all were learning from the same material, and doing the same assignments. The assignments challenged the students of different levels in different ways, but all learned very much from them–often completely changing they way they think about and approach art forever.
One of the gravest misunderstandings I see in 3D is that many people who do 3D don't realize just how incredibly important the foundations of visual art are, and every single piece of subpar 3D artwork usually suffers precisely because the person behind the artwork is lacking the essential foundations of visual art. While one can google for such information or buy books or take classes, the problem is that most don't know how to properly analyze and digest such information and be able to utilize them effectively, nor do they have the depth and range of knowledge and experience to know how to creatively wield all that knowledge as potent and lethal weapons as artists. Worse yet, is that some learning materials and instructors are often subpar at teaching, aren't very thorough, aren't knowledgeable themselves, or suffer from a very narrow point of view. My unique way of teaching stems from the fact that I'm not just an artist, but also a passionate storyteller, writer/director, composer/musician, photographer, and my creative career spans a wide range of creative mediums and industries, so I have very unique insights that very few instructors have. I've had a number of students tell me they learned far more in eight weeks with me than they ever did in all the years they went to art school or worked professionally, or from all the learning resources they have accumulated and experienced.[/color][color=YellowGreen]
If you read all the testimonials from my past students on the workshop details page (linked in the very first post of this thread), you’ll see how my workshop has totally opened their eyes and minds, even when many of them have already gone to art school, or even worked professionally as artists for years. My students also ranged from concept artists, illustrators, animators, comic book artists, 3D modelers, CG generalists, photographers, graphic designers, and so on. They all loved the workshop and learned tons from it, and for many, it changed their lives not only as creative talents, but also as human beings with aspirations, dreams, and goals in life. For many, I think one of the greatest surprises is that although they expected to learn a lot about the essential foundations, drawing and painting techniques, and highly flexible and powerful professional workflow (all of which they got in spades and then some), they did not expect the lessons about creative vision, personal growth, professional aspirations, and life-long fulfillment to have hit them so hard, changing the way they look at everything related to their creative inspirations, career aspirations, and personal fulfillment, thus transforming them completely as artists. You can see this very clearly from the student testimonials, as well as the posts in this thread.
I believe this workshop is relevant to visual artists of any kind, regardless of your experience, industry, specialty, or medium, and it will likely completely transform you as a creative person from the inside out, and have a lasting influence on the rest of your life as both an artist and a human being. That was my goal when I created this workshop, and from all the passionately glowing feedback I have gotten from my past students, I believe firmly that I have succeeded.
I’m always evolving the workshop, adding to, updating, improving all the material and my approach as I observe the students and their reactions, the kind of questions they ask, the things they struggle with, and so on. Each run of the workshop is better than the previous, and it’ll keep on getting better and better, for as long as I’m still teaching it.
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been waiting to jump on board for ages!
just not this time
I do hope you write a book about these workshops in the near future. 
The workshops would give you some tools and let you asses your weaknesses.