<p>I am looking for really good digital animation and art schools that also offer performing arts(dance, voice, music production)..i am currently an undergrad btw..and will be finishing up my chemical engineering degree next year</p>
<p>Full Sail in Orlando, FL! my cousin goes there. they are one of the best in the country. 2 years for a bachelor's degree because you work your butt off.</p>
<p>CalArts has everything that you have asked for.</p>
<p>Yeah, but CalArts is super expensive and the buildings/dorms are as ugly as hell.</p>
<p>just went to the cal arts website- wow...location, programs, everything- exactly what I'm looking for....and i heard its top notch..and as far as cost- it is probably just as expensive as the other masters graduate programs I am applying to so i dont mind...</p>
<p>i will be applying to other schools for electrical engineering/computer science...does anyone know digital animation/film schools close to MIT,harvard,stanford,princeton or cal tech?.... I mainly want to get into art schools but in case i dont get into one, and i get into an engineering masters program, i still want to be able to do digital animation/film at a nearby school</p>
<p>Racnna, check out University of Pennsylvania,which has a digital media major. Also Check out Cornel's art program. Penn's program is a combination of software engineering and art.</p>
<p>CalArts (Valencia) is near Caltech (Pasadena). if you go to Stanford, i think the closest art schools are in SF.</p>
<p>and i think UCLA is pretty strong in the stuff you're looking at...</p>
<p>Full Sail in Orlando is recognized by Rolling Stone as one of the best. it is well respected in the videogame, movie, and music industries.</p>
<p>Also, beware; at CalArts you'll have to do more Liberal Arts work to accompany your major than you would at most other art colleges.</p>
<p>I think you would be hard pressed to combine a CALARTS animation degree with a commute down to CalTech for a graduate engineering degree. Animation is a very intense program at all schools because you are in production of films. That said, with the right motivation and drive I can't say it can't be done. A couple of other possibilities are schools that offer both graduate degrees... USC, UCLA, Rochester Institute of Technology all come to mind. Another possibility is RISD which sits next to Brown University... you could do both in Providence.</p>
<p>evan its a masters(non thesis option). so i could technically finish in a year or a year and a half. Its a coursework oriented program....i figure it shouldnt be THAT bad to commute back and forth taking courses...no?</p>
<p>The non-thesis aspect of the engineering masters makes things way easier. I have an MS in engineering and graduate school was way less intense than undergraduate. My son has studied animation at the college level and is starting at CALARTS next year in Character Animation. Yes the BFA is more intense than the MFA, but there is still a significant workload. My only concern is just the logistics of meeting commitments at two schools that are not connected and are a distance apart (at least by drive time). You should just call a couple candidate schools and talk it over with a faculty member or two - see what they think about balancing the two.</p>
<p>i mean its something that i will THINK of doing if i am lucky enough to get into the engineering schools i am applying to AND good art schools. My real concern is i don't really want to go to school for another 4 years....i mean i love everything about cal arts from what I am seeing on the website, but I want to go to an art school that offers a lot of summer courses so i could finish in, at most, 2 years and a half. I don't want to be sitting around doing nothing during the summer...do you think it would be possible to finish that quickly? like start taking classes the summer before school starts in the fall..and keep taking courses during the summer till i graduate?</p>
<p>never mind...they dont offer summer courses...I'll look into other places</p>