I’ve posted in the Visual Arts major forum, but also posting question here in case any parents have any knowledge of the programs.
DS has been accepted to many traditional universities as an animation major and wanted help sorting out the programs or finding out anything that anyone knows about these programs. As for background, DS did precollege at Otis in animation and loved it! Also has taken classes at Art Center in figure drawing, character design, environment design and at RPI in video game design (less applicable). Looking into the quality of the art education, internships/job placement, and networks/connection. Cost is less of an issue. He and I have been looking at animation reels of the students, and trying to look at foundation classes, profs bios, and student placement. Current dream jobs include animation, character design, video game art, concept art (prefers 2D). We live in Los Angeles. Probably will exclude non-California colleges since CA college are closer to many industry internships, unless I hear that he would be making a mistake by not further considering the non-CA colleges.
Accepted to:
College / Total 4 or 5 year cost of attendance after factoring merit scholarships (Private and UCs take 4 years, Cal states take 5 years)
San Jose State University 125K
Loyola Marymount University 217K
Chapman 160K
RIT 132K
Syracuse 192K
DePaul 132K
Champlain 144K
Drexel 208K
Cal State Univ Long Beach 115K
Cal State Univ Northridge 115K
Cal State Univ Fullerton 125K
UC San Diego (not a real animation major; major is called ICAM: Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts) 128K
UC Santa Cruz (definitely not animation; major is CS computer game design) 138K
Have visited
SJSU
CSUN
LMU
Chapman
DePaul
UCSC
Thoughts? Advice?