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Svanur · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2000 4:18 am

I am currently thinking of attending some kind of a school to learn either conventional arts or going into 3d. I am wondering whether anyone here knows of any good schools. I don't care where it is as long as it is in Europe or the States. If you have any info please reply.

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL is a good one for most type of arts from what I hear. http://www.rsad.edu/

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shinkin · Guest Member #

I think this ones a good deal:
Art Center College of Design

because thats the one, craig mullins took studies

Weeber · junior member Member # Joined: 11 Aug 2000 Posts: 1

Check out Savannah College or Art and Design as well. http://www.scad.edu

balistic · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2000 3:51 pm

One caveat with Art Center is that it is really pricey . . . about $24,000 a year when I toured it a few years back. I decided to try taking art classes at a local community college for a couple years instead of taking the ACCD plunge, and ended up getting a couple decent job offers about a year ago. I now work at a very cool little animation house with some very cool coworkers.

Art Center has a good reputation and deserves it, but if you're motivated and can find a local school with a good art program, you might not have to bleed so much to get where you want to be.

Once you have a grasp of the basic principles of art, there's not much more that they can teach you. If you try and take a bunch of expensive classes in 3D animation, the software you use will be obsolete by the time you graduate . . . try and master the latest pop style and it'll change on ya too.

Basically what I'm saying is this: a job will teach you a lot more than many classes you could take. We have a modeler here named Alicia . . . she had no experience with digital art a month ago, and today she's modeling a realistic animatable gecko.

Get the fundamentals first, and /then/ decide whether you need to jump into a hardcore art school.

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Brian "balistic" Prince
3D Artist
Eggington Productions

Bouncy Ninja · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2000 11:18 pm

I'm learning CAD at my shool(in australia) and I'm in yr9(2nd year of high school)

Svanur · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2000 1:17 am

balistic: I have attended some courses in the Art School of Reykjavik and finished most of the basics, I even took some model drawing. What I need is a school that really pushes me forward to draw more. Like now I am working 9 to 5 then I get home to eat and then I go training Kickboxing and Kung Fu, And when I finally get home my friends always call me and then I get more distracted. I am trying to schedule my time more but I am thinking that if I attend some school I would have more time. Especially since I would quit my full time job while I am learning.

balistic · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2000 7:27 am

Svanur, if you feel like you need the extra push, then by all means, try out an art school . . . I was just relating my situation, which I'm sure is different from yours. Best of luck with your art!

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Brian "balistic" Prince
3D Artist
Eggington Productions

balistic · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2000 11:21 pm

What kind of Kung Fu are you taking? I did about a year of Shaolin Five-Animal.

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Brian "balistic" Prince
3D Artist
Eggington Productions

Svanur · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2000 1:11 am

I am training in Wing Chun and we do a little of Shaolin too. My trainer, Jimmy, wants to teach us some variatons, especially the animal styles.