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amb · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

hi, i have applied to universty of southern california for masters in computer animation and visual effects and the registrar asked for portfolio. My backgroud is bsc in computer science. what do you advice me to do to get this portofolio in a very short time ? are there one year or two years programs that helps me to get prepared my portfolio so that i can get admission to the university .. please help ...

/ university of california, usa portofolio requirement .../
Portfolio. We highly recommend a digital portfolio. This can include artwork, drawings, paintings, character designs, sketches, computer graphics etc. in digital format on a CD. We also recommend any animation/film work on VHS tape or DVD.

thanks.

jinnseng · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:53 pm

So it seems you don't have any art experience, have a degree in computer science and now want to get a portfolio ready to get into an visual arts program? I'm not sure why but something about that irritates me, don't take it personally. I'm not sure what I can say besides start practicing. Get into some drawing classes, take some fine art courses. Build up some basic knowledge. I'm sure since you're trying to get into a state college you would need a pretty solid portfolio. I'm really not sure how fast you could get a nice one put together, it depends how good you are. Some people take years to build up a decent portfolio. Maybe you have the talent to to it faster, who knows?

Jimmyjimjim · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 459

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Sorry dude, I just find that a really funny post. If I were you I'd get busy. My portfolio for school took me six months to do.

jfrancis · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:23 pm

You say "a short time," and yet you also say you'd like to spend a year or two (in a program) just getting your portfolio ready?

What do you want to do with your Masters degree?

If it's something artistic, like painting or animation -- you should by now have a sense of what kind of things belong in your portfolio.

Are you mainly interested in programming for computer graphics? Maybe you should write a simple ray tracer -- something along those lines -- build on your base in computer science.