<p>OTG--</p>
<p>Just to update on the outlook for D|MA majors--S is currently art director for a small ad agency in LA. He's been asked to oversee the re-branding process and to consider taking over the reins vis-a-vis creative directorship. That's yet to be determined.</p>
<p>His classmates have found lucrative work, primarily in the LA area. One classmate is in the animation graduate program at UCLA.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/arts/brief/artsp6_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/arts/brief/artsp6_brief.php</a>
This is the graduate school rankings -- UCLA is #3 -- 2 spot beneath YALE. I figured since their graduate school was that strong, their undergraduate woule be pretty good too.</p>
<p>I have been taking industrial design courses and figure drawing classes at Art Center. I personally "love" Art Center, but I wanted to go to a college where I could explore other disicplines and get into depth more on the theory of design. (UCLA is also much much cheaper)</p>
<p>I don't have many computer animation stuff or anything like that -- do you think that will hurt me alot? I was thinking of just "faking" some computer stuff in there out of desparation -- even if it would look very amaturish.</p>
<p>hypocalvin-</p>
<p>never fake. you don't need any animation for your portfolio. some of my friends only submited paintings and drawings and they got in. Athough, it's good to know photoshop, illustrator.. programs like that. many classes will result in using these programs. The professor won't teach much on them, so if you get in... learn some of these.</p>
<p>Thanks, that is somewhat comforting. I read some post that saying that the admissions are looking for people who are well versed in many computer software programs -- and I'm pretty new in all that stuff and web design stuff. Photoshop is the only program in which I have extensive experience. Illustrator and pagemaker.. some. Using only that program all the time will probably explain why I didn't force myself to learn any other one. Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>I was surprised to see this thread return! If you want to see some more UCLA student work, check out classes.design.ucla.edu. A few of the teachers post all the class assignments online. And I don't think you need to know many software programs to get in, but the school sure expects you to learn them before you get out!</p>