<p>well, I’m not sure what you mean when you said your brother was interested in pursuing education in Animation. I interpreted it as either meaning that he wanted to learn animation and become an animator or that he wanted to become a teacher that teaches animation. I’m not sure which one you actually meant so it might help a little bit to clear that out. But for my answer I’ll assume you meant that your brother is trying study and become an animator </p>
<p>before my long wordy part, I will say that if your brother is going for a career in animation, a degree I believe is not really that important. What’s important is the portfolio or demo reel you create. There are a lot of outstanding animators out in the industry who came from unknown schools and some didn’t even go to school. What you have to offer is what’s important in this field. Not a piece of paper that says you did all the work a school asked you to do.</p>
<p>As for the programs you listed, I haven’t heard of any of them. Be careful when you go to a school’s site. Because all schools do their best to look amazing on their websites. What I would recommend you doing is the following.</p>
<p>1. Go around trying to find student work.</p>
<p>Ask the school for demos of student work if they don’t provide some on their site. You can also search online on sites such as Youtube or Vimeo as students sometimes upload their work their as well. If you get any demos from school sites or from admissions counselors, it will most likely be their school’s best recent work. So take that into consideration. If their best work isn’t impressive, then I would be hesitant to consider them. If their best work IS impressive, look deeper. Because the best work isn’t always a good measure of a school. The more student work you can get your hands on, the easier it will be to get a feeling of what goes on in that school.</p>
<p>**** This is where you have to have your brother judge himself honestly (It might help to have other people evaluate him too). Because in a lot of schools, especially for things like animation, you only get as much as you put in. So even if you get into the best school in the world, it doesn’t mean you’ll amount to anything if you can’t do the work required to succeed.*</p>
<p>**2. Ask around and see what have become of students who attended these schools. **</p>
<p>Some schools provide this information, some do not. Do your best though to get an idea of where students end up at the end of their education. I’m using the Art Institute for example. I visited their school a while back when I was looking for schools. They provided demo reels as well as some info on their graduating class such as percentages of graduating students with a job after graduating etc. </p>
<p>Bottom line, find out as much as possible about how students from the schools you’re looking at perform in the industry. If the students from a school are being out competed by other people for job positions, it’s probably not a place you want to be.</p>
<p>**** Another thing you should consider is what exactly your brother wants to do after school. Because everyone’s goals are different. Does he want to animate for video games? movies? Independent films? This all should be factored into school choices as different schools offer different things. A school that might be bad for one person might be great for another person. It all comes down to what you’re looking for. So you should define that.*</p>
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<p>That’s a little long but hopefully it’ll help you guys decide which school is best. </p>
<p>Besides that though all I can honestly say for advice is this.</p>
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<li>Try your best not to let money become a deciding factor. Bargain schools aren’t always a wise decision and in the end, if you make a bad choice, you’ll have payed money for a shoddy education and no good job at the end to show for it. And that would prove to be a lot more costly than face value since you will have wasted time and money. *But again I don’t mean that cheap schools are bad and expensive schools are good</li>
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<p>Ideally, you should choose a school because you are confident that the environment they provide is perfect for you and will help you get to where you want in life. </p>
<p>but ultimately, school is a means to an end. It really is up to the student to work and get to where they want to be.</p>