I've been drooling over the work of Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo for quite a while, so once I discovered their course over on Schoolism, I had to sign up.
If you're not familiar with Dice and Robert, they're both Pixar veterans who served as Art Directors on films such as Ratatouille, Toy Story, and Monsters University. A couple of years ago they went off on their own to form Tonko House, where they made the wonderfully heartfelt and beautiful short film, The Dam Keeper. If you haven't seen it yet, you can stream it over on Amazon. It's worth the three bucks.
The set up at Schoolism is neat. For $144 you can stream any of the courses for a full year (it costs $1 to switch courses). I hesitated a little because I was concerned about getting my money's worth. After all, there are a ton of free tutorials on YouTube, including some from Dice and Robert. So why spend the money on the course? Well, as it turns out, the $144 doesn't just get you access to the lessons, it gets you access to the feedback the instructors gave to former students, which to me, is just as valuable. What's more, both the lessons and feedback are in video. It's enlightening to watch your instructor go into a student work and make it much stronger through hands-on overpainting, all the while reinforcing the week's lessons. The video feedback makes the course feel more like a college course than anything I've experienced online. It is reminiscent of being in a classroom, listening attentively as each student's work is critiqued.